Its a dilemma that comes up time and again in grassroots struggles of all kinds, and can be better illustrated in the case of no border struggles. But what does it mean to make this slogan a reality. Chris crass, author of towards collective liberationt. From the streets of calais to the borders of melilla, evros and the united states, the slogan no borders. Published in the wake of the millionsstrong may day 2006 strikes and demonstrations led by workingclass undocumented immigrants in the us, mike davis and. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the violent borders, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country.
The first extended political analysis of europes controversial no borders movement, from an activist and writer with firsthand experience of the struggle for free movement. Wideranging and interdisciplinary, no borders constitutes vital reading for anyone interested in how we make radical alternatives to the state a genuine possibility for our times, and raises crucial questions on the nature of resistance. Books without borders is a fledgling organization dedicated to providing reading materials to people who would not otherwise have access to them. Nationalism, borders, and the state the brooklyn rail. King tells the story of the 300, migrant workers who went on hunger strike in athens in. It often gets dismissed as utopian or too extreme to be politically useful. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the no borders, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. In no borders, natasha king draws on more than a decade of experience as a migrant rights activist as well as extensive research in greece and calais in order to explore the dilemmas and challenges involved in translating the no borders slogan into practice. To answer that, she examines where and how activists have so far succeeded.
Matt carr, author of fortress europe king provides a map to a different future where people are free to move and borders are relegated to the dustbin of history. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Jul 19, 2011 indeed, outside a borders bookstore in arlington, va. It is our belief that all or most of the worlds problems are a direct result of ignorance, and that the best cure for ignorance is to provide people with the means to educate themselves. Dec 22, 2012 borders serve as a tool to manage national labor markets, foreign affairs agendas, and security concerns. Drawing on the authors extensive research in greece and calais, as well as a decade campaigning for migrant rights, natasha king explores. No borders by natasha king overdrive rakuten overdrive.
As normative ideas, open borders and no border can play important roles in critical scholarship. Nonviable economies and the crisis of civilization. No borders, as a particular politics, is already inherently praxisbased in that it seeks to go beyond what is, think about how things could be otherwise, and then put that into practice. All chicago e books are on sale at 30% off with the code ebook30.
The struggle for the freedom of movement is this refusal of the border. King lived for a time in 2011 among those without papers and calais, france because they represent particular brutal intensity in the struggle against the border in her opinion. Peter nyers, mcmaster university anarchist studies. No borders serves as an accessible introduction to no. I have sought to mimic this process in this book, and this book is the outcome of a praxisbased approach.
She claims that no borders politics is driven by anarchism while nevertheless emphasising the diversity of the campaign for free movement. What does it mean to try to make this idea a reality. And yet in the simplest terms, the no border network simply expresses an ethic of radical equality. It is about how we prefigure a world that is borderless by it being genuinely equal.
The refugee crisis in europe began with the shipwrecks off the coast of libya in april 2015 and ended seven months later with the terrorist attacks in paris. The politics of immigration control and resistance kindle edition by king, natasha. The full text of this article hosted at is unavailable due to technical difficulties. I call this a no borders politics and explore what it is as a concept in chapter 1 of my book.
To that end, it provides a welcome corrective to an interdisciplinary migration studies that has long scaled its optics to the resolution of the state, whether state policy or in peoples autonomous movements against it. The politics of immigration control and resistance by natasha king isbn. Weber 18 leanne weber is australian research council future fellow in the school of social sciences at monash university, melbourne, and codirector of the border crossing observatory, 62018, no borders. Zed books catalogue springsummer 2016 by zedbooks issuu. The politics of immigration control and resistance london, zed books, 2016 imagine a society like a ripped sheet, each hole being a space of freedom destined to grow larger. Animalus a4 the meatdairy industry and commodification of animals challenged in a. The politics of immigration control and resistance is based on some of these experiences and was published by zed books in 2016. An accessible resource for anyone engaged in the battle against an increasingly violent global border regime. The politics of immigration control and resistance, king the chicago distribution center has reopened and is fulfilling orders. Natasha king looks at what the global border regime produces and introduces the no borders movement. The long journeys, deaths, detentions and expulsions faced by the many thousands of uninvited migrants who try to reach europe by sea or by land did not begin or end there. Zed books europe list is a politics and cultural studies list focussing on europes political, economic and cultural relationship with the rest of the world. The politics of immigration control and resistance by natasha king zed books, 2016 natasha king is a scholar activist who has spent years working in calais, france and in greece as the migration crisis began. No borders cleverly weaves together interviews, personal testimony, and radical theory to offer a bold narrative of freedom of movement struggles in europe.
The politics of immigration control and resistance. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading no borders. In no borders, natasha king draws on more than a decade of experience as. Natasha kings important book demonstrates that no borders is not so much a. To that end, it provides a welcome corrective to an interdisciplinary migration studies that has long scaled its optics to the resolution of the state, whether state policy or in peoples autonomous. A scholarly analysis of freedom of movement targeting those living outside the state in athens, greece where ms. Sometimes the no border network opts for the term migrant, because categories like refugee, asylum seeker, economic migrant and illegal immigrant are used to divide and control. No borders the politics of immigration control and resistance n ata s h a k i n g may 2016 224pp format.
Thinking of no borders as a refusal brings into focus how the legitimacy of border controls is also questioned, and hence the legitimacy of the nationstate. At the books heart, repeated in different forms, are two central dilemmas for no borders politics. Ill go to borders to find a book, and then ill to go to amazon to buy it. Ink knows no borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet javier zamora, who crossed the border, unaccompanied, at the age of nine, and an afterword by emtithal mahmoud, world poetry slam champion and honorary goodwill ambassador for. The politics of immigration control and resistance, natasha king is published by zed books.
No borders is a transnational network of groups struggling for the freedom of movement for all and an end to all migration controls. A highly original and provocative examination of no borders politics and what. Natasha king a highly original and provocative examination of no borders politics and what this means within current contentious debates on migration. After quickly becoming one of the countrys leading booksellers, due to the fierce competition in the uk marketplace, a number of the books etc.
Zed books book list the university of chicago press. Playing rugby for ireland behind the jersey series first edition by tom english isbn. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full access to all. Oct 15, 2016 in no borders, natasha king draws on more than a decade of experience as a migrant rights activist as well as extensive research in greece and calais in order to explore the dilemmas and challenges involved in translating the no borders slogan into practice. Last summer, protesters in oregon set up a makeshift camp outside the portland office of immigration and customs enforcement ice. The politics of immigration control and resistance, king. The politics of immigration control and resistance by. No borders cleverly weaves together interviews, personal testimony, and radical theory to offer a bold narrative of freedom of movement struggles in europe an accessible resource for anyone engaged in the battle against an increasingly violent global border regime. The first is between the refusal of borders, on the one hand, and the struggle of people without papers for recognition of their rights, on the other. As long as it is being pierced, those who find themselves caught in the material will not choke.
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