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The Noborder movement: interpersonal struggle with political ideals
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Abstract Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of migration, but who share decolonial, anti-capitali... mehr
Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of migration, but who share decolonial, anti-capitalist ideals that criticize the nation-state. Noborder activists embrace prefigurative strategies, which means enacting political ideals in their everyday life. This is why this article asks: How do noborder activists try to meet their political ideals in their everyday practices, and what effects do these intentions entail? Noborder practices take place at the intersection of self-organization as a reference to migrants' legal status or identity, on the one hand, and self-organization as anti-hierarchical forms of anarchist-autonomous organization, on the other. On the basis of empirical findings of a multi-sited ethnography in Germany and Greece, this article conceptualizes that noborder creates a unique space for activists to meet in which people try to work productively through conflicts they see as being produced by a global system of inequalities. This demanding endeavor involves social pressure to self-reflect and to transform interpersonal relationships. Broader society could learn from such experiences to build more inclusive, heterogeneous communities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Protestbewegung; Netzwerk; Kritik; Nationalstaat; Einstellung; Identität; Selbstorganisation; soziale Beziehungen; politisches Asyl; soziale Bewegung; Flüchtling; Alltag; Politik; Staatsgrenze
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Präfiguration
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 49-57
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 5 (2017) 3
Heftthema
Perspectives on the European border regime: mobilization, contestation, and the role of civil society
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)