Refugees and the Right to Move

Elisabeth Vallet parlant de Reece Jones, pour bien commencer la matinée ! :)

Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

The border is one of the most pressing ethical and political questions of our time. Over the last two decades, 60,000 people have been recorded as either missing or dead along migration routes (IOM, 2016). In 2016 alone, the International Organisation for Migration (2016) reported approximately 4,000 refugee deaths in the Mediterranean and 6,000 worldwide. In the wake of this human tragedy, states have engaged in an orchestrated effort to propagate a narrative of securitisation and frame the contemporary political condition as a ‘crisis’ of sovereign borders. The hardening of borders through building walls and fences and also through the introduction of increased bureaucratic regulations are now common practices of states that seek to contain this so-called ‘mobility crisis’.

▻http://www.e-ir.info/2017/06/20/review-violent-borders-refugees-and-the-right-to-move

Movement as a Political Act

Amid these deep disparities between states, the act of moving across borders becomes a way of re-politicizing the very idea of states, borders, and nations—concepts that have for centuries been taken for granted and excluded from debate. Thus, the decision of migrants to cross borders challenges “the state’s schemes of exclusion, control, and violence,” Jones writes (180). “They do this simply by moving.”

▻https://monthlyreview.org/2017/12/01/movement-as-a-political-act

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