Papers by Eugenio Panzone
_______________________________________________________________ Abstract The present paper is int... more _______________________________________________________________ Abstract The present paper is intended to review No Borders movement and its practical political experience. First of all, this article will investigate its radical contestation against borders, and in particular against the EU border regime and the European immigration policies; then, the attention will focus on the examination of the political practices that activists without borders perform in the attempt to realize their political project. The editorial article " Why No Borders " , by Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright, and Mezzadra and Neilson's studies on borders will be fundamental for the investigation of the No Borders political approach and for the explanation of the particular role of borders in its political theories; Nicholas De Genova and Martina Tazzioli's researches in the migration studies will be very useful in the description of the " refugee crisis " and the related process of never-ending militarization of European immigration controls and policies. This theoretical view surrounds the No Borders contestation. Finally, this article will discuss a specific political practice: the solidarity squatting experience of the Calais Migrant Solidarity, a No Borders collective operating in France. The ultimate aim is to show that No Borders political practices are fundamental to generate a highly critical interpretation of the contemporary migration issue and, consequently, to engage a direct involvement of individuals in the migration phenomenon, and particularly in the humanitarian field. Indeed, No Borders projects are grounded on a particular notion of solidarity that, to use Lilie Chouliaraki's words, reduces the distance between " ironic spectators " and " vulnerable others ". On one hand, this peculiarity helps to get close to distant people's experiences; on the other hand, it represents a concrete threat for the inhuman and dehumanizing performances of the international capitalistic system. ___________________________________________________________________________
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Papers by Eugenio Panzone