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@article{ Gauditz2017, title = {The Noborder movement: interpersonal struggle with political ideals}, author = {Gauditz, Leslie}, journal = {Social Inclusion}, number = {3}, pages = {49-57}, volume = {5}, year = {2017}, issn = {2183-2803}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.968}, 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-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.}, keywords = {Protestbewegung; protest movement; Netzwerk; network; Kritik; criticism; Nationalstaat; nation state; Einstellung; attitude; Identität; identity; Selbstorganisation; self-organization; soziale Beziehungen; social relations; politisches Asyl; political asylum; soziale Bewegung; social movement; Flüchtling; refugee; Alltag; everyday life; Politik; politics; Staatsgrenze; national border}}