Border Violence as Settler Nativism
Asked to contemplate what a cross-border politics in Australia could look like today, I want to stress that for me, a movement beyond borders is not a movement of no nations or against nationhood. In fact one of the earliest interactions I had with the #Beyond_Borders Collective when it first formed was to question a photo on the Beyond Borders page at the time which showed a banner stating ‘#no_borders_no_nations’.
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Understanding colonisation as an ongoing and always incomplete process suggests a future that’s open to change. It shifts the onus of explanation to those who want to create and maintain borders rather than those who want to question them. It challenges the myth that refugees are a breach in an otherwise secure border. And it reaches through to a space where white Australia is and can only ever be a fiction that is made material through violence.
We should not accept this metaphor, this myth that a nation is dependent on border policing, and that a country is analogous to private property.
►http://www.anarchistaffinity.org/2014/07/border-violence-as-settler-nativism
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