{"id":383614,"date":"2018-11-04T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-migrant-movements-radically-transform-borders\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T08:40:24","slug":"how-migrant-movements-radically-transform-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-migrant-movements-radically-transform-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"How Migrant Movements Radically Transform Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Humans \u2014 as long as we have walked, we have moved and explored. We spread to cover the whole world, and then mixed among each other. We continue to do that. Our movement expresses so many elements of our being: our curiosity, our vulnerability, our arrogance. We have generally been the main limit to our own movements in all that time. As humans, we have mobility in common. It is a core part of who we are. And yet it is perhaps precisely that mobility that has often made us afraid of others and controlling over them.<\/p>\n

At a demonstration during the COP21 protests in Paris a few years ago, somebody carried a banner that read \u201cmigration is a force of nature.\u201d The message was striking. In its simplicity, it neatly expressed the <\/span>inevitability<\/em> <\/span>of human mobility. But it also said something about the inevitability of human struggles to be free to move. Those struggles have always been there too \u2014 and they continue today, ultimately, because borders inhibiting our freedom of movement persist. Would those struggles even exist, after all, if there were no borders to cross?<\/p>\n

Borders, of course, are more than just lines marking territories on a map. They are ultimately an apparatus of the state, functioning to define the outer limits of state power. The extent and intensity of this state power is rapidly changing today \u2014 as is the nature of the border regime itself. The involvement of transnational institutions like the European Union, or non-state agencies like Frontex, and the extension in some cases of existing state powers beyond their own borders (as in the case of Australia locating its refugee camps in Papua New Guinea, or the UK placing border guards in French ports) are fundamentally changing the way borders work and the way different groups of people relate to them.<\/p>\n

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As a result, borders have proliferated, shattering into a kaleidoscope of effects, distributed unevenly over space and people….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Humans \u2014 as long as we have walked, we have moved and explored. We spread to cover the whole world, and then mixed among each other. We continue to do that. Our movement expresses so many elements of our being: our curiosity, our vulnerability, our arrogance. We have generally been the main limit to our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}