Toward Border Abolition : Migrant Struggles and the Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Genova, Nicholas.

Contributor:

De Genova, Nicholas, editor.

Morales, Daniel I., 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law.

Emigration and immigration law--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Border security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Border Abolitionism explores the legacies of carceral and penal abolitionism to critically adapt its insights to the study of borders and migration. The contributors interrogate the basic question of the presumed necessity and legitimacy of migration control. By questioning the "commonsense" logics of nation-states' border and immigration enforcement regimes, this volume nurtures, catalyzes, and problematizes existing and incipient movements for the abolition of migration controls. This engagement differs dramatically from the broadly reformist consensus of liberal legal scholars and social scientists. Whereas that consensus fundamentally upholds the premises of the nation-state and its citizen-centric conceptions of justice, this volume foregrounds its inherent exclusions and injustices for migrants, refugees, and others classified as noncitizens and showcases constructive visions that are incipient in the lived practices of people on the move across borders whose actions and priorities reveal the potentialities and necessity for the veritable abolition of borders and immigration regimes. While a minority of "open borders" proponents previously imagined that migration could be liberalized while fundamentally changing nothing else about capitalism and the global political and legal order of territorially defined states, this volume instead embraces a more radically open-ended concept of the human freedom of movement that would ultimately require that everything must be transformed. In short, this volume confirms that border abolitionism entails nothing short of remaking the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Border Abolitionism: Migrant Struggles, the Law, and Remaking the World / Nicholas De Genova and Daniel I. Morales /

Abolition in the US Immigration Law Context / Leti Volpp

Law Against Law: Immigration Eugenics, Family Law, and Border Abolition / Audrey Macklin

Struggles for Freedom in a World of Nation-States / Nandita Sharma

Abolishing National Borders: Citizenship After the Nation / Jacqueline Stevens

Border Abolitionism: Commoning Beyond the Opposition of "Community" and "Nation-State" / Martina Tazzioli

Scales of Abolition: Mapping Multi-Jurisdictional Border Abolitionist Engagements / David Moffette

Of Aid and Abolition: Humanitarian Innocence Between Kakuma Camp and Resettlement Futures / Hanno Brankamp.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4780-6251-7

OCLC:

1600226777