Border abolition now / edited by Sara Riva [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riva, Sara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2024]

Summary:

Introduction to the theory and praxis of Border Abolition, drawing on the perspectives of migrants and those resisting in detention, camps and asylum regimes.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

1. Women in Exile's Story

Constellation I: Abolitionist Theories in Border Contexts

2. Unfolding and Flourishing: Strategies of Border Abolition Feminism

3. Surplus People of the World Unite! On Borders, Policing and Abolition

4. #AbolishICE, #AbolishFrontex, Abolish Borders: Toward an Abolitionist Border Study and Struggle

5. "For Black Immigrants, its a Different America": An Interview with Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Constellation II: Abolitionisms Against the Border Complex

6. The Place of Asylum and Empire in Contemporary Abolition - Jenna M. Loyd

7. Abolition, Not Relocation: Moving from Humanitarian Containment Toward Camp Abolition

8. "Alternatives to Detention" and the Carceral State in the UK

9. Golden Gulag in Italy?: For the Abolition of the Reception-Industrial Complex

10. Abolish Frontex and End the EU Border Regime

Constellation III: Political Horizons of Border Abolitionism

11. "Shut Them Down": Non-reformist Reforms in Anti-detention Organizing

12. Abolitionist Potential and Ambivalence in Daily Struggles Against the Border Regime

13. Capitalism, Mobility and Racialization: Abolitionisms at the Border

14. Rising Waters from New York City to Pakistan: Abolitionist Organizing at the Intersection of Immigration Justice and the Climate Crisis

15. "We're About Destroying the Entire Apparatus": An Interview with Contra Viento y Marea, El Comedor Comunitario

Afterword - Gracie Mae Bradley

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780745349008

0745349005

9780745348995

0745348998

OCLC:

1446161717