Humanitarian Borders Quotes

“moving because one is forced to – by continuing colonial systems of extraction and government, or by rising sea levels caused by anthropogenic climate change – is a continued form of domination and dispossession.37”
― Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives

“Heroic narratives of humanitarian risk taking, that anthropologist Adia Benton argues (re)produce racial hierarchies and white supremacy,109 animate grassroots initiatives as much as organised institutionalised interventions. Violent borders and unequal mobility are transversal, meaning territorial and state- and citizen-based responses that see humanitarian work happen ‘over there’ and politics happen ‘here’ can only ever relieve symptoms rather than effect substantive change. So, what next for mobility justice?”
― Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives