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Squire, Vicki (2021) Unruly migrations, abolitionist alternatives. Behemoth - A Journal on Civilisation, 14 (3). pp. 14-24. doi:10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.3.1065 ISSN 1866-2447.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.3.1065
Abstract
This essay considers how appeals for the abolition of structures of unfreedom, situations of violence and harm, and enduring practices of neglect and dehumanisation are generated through acts of unruly migration. It does so on the basis of a close engagement with a counter-archive of migratory testimonies that was produced during 2015 and 2016 with people who had migrated – or were planning to migrate – across the Mediterranean to Europe. Drawing inspiration from Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s conceptualisation of ‘organised abandonment’, the essay suggests that key dimensions of an abolitionist politics are evident in refusals of the racialised, gendered and classed dynamics of militarism and colonialism that are integral to the border complex. In so doing, it also reflects on alternatives – transformative imaginaries and forms of organising that emerge through what are interpreted as abolitionist acts of migration.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration -- Government policy, Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century, Boundaries, Borders -- Mediterranean, Immigrants -- Social conditions, Immigrants -- Mortality -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 21st century | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Behemoth - A Journal on Civilisation | ||||||
Publisher: | Universität Freiburg | ||||||
ISSN: | 1866-2447 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 14-24 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.3.1065 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 November 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 February 2022 | ||||||
Funder: | ESRC | ||||||
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