Conference Paper / Presentation
| 2024
Towards a borderless world: Political barriers and scholarly responsibilities
This paper will discuss barriers and possibilities for imagining a borderless world, that is, a world with significantly more freedom of movement for everyone with needs and desires to cross borders. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with refugee advocates in Europe, I reflect on failures to normalise migration and address historical and contemporary connections and complicities. However, I also consider efforts to challenge welfare chauvinism and think anew about borders and mobility justice. In conclusion, I shift the gaze from refugee advocates to anthropology and discuss how we might contribute to reframing dominant narratives and perspectives on migration and displacement.
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