Against Borders Quotes

“Prior to the introduction of immigration controls, the labour needs of these settler colonies had been served by transatlantic slavery, indenture and transportation. Indeed, it was the movement of negatively racialised yet legally free migrants into these territories in the late nineteenth century that seems to have precipitated the introduction of immigration controls.”
― Gracie Mae Bradley, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

“Anti-racists need to be alert to how racism shapeshifts, and to how different articulations of racism nourish and reinforce one another.”
― Luke de Noronha, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

“Border abolition is a revolutionary politics situated within wider struggles for economic justice, racial equality and sustainable ecologies, based on the conviction that there will be no liveable futures in which borders between political communities are violently guarded.”
― Luke de Noronha, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

“border abolition seeks to dismantle violent borders, but also to cultivate new ways of caring for one another, nurturing forms of collectivity more conducive to human flourishing than the nation-states we currently inhabit.”
― Luke de Noronha, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

“Borders and prisons are both punitive systems for managing undesirable subjects, and both punish people through immobilisation and forced exile.”
― Luke de Noronha, Against Borders: The Case for Abolition