Abstract: This paper argues that borders and violence against migrants no longer takes place exclusively at the geographical space between two sovereign territories. Instead border violence today has become much more normalized and diffused into society itself. An entire privatized […]
Violence at the Borders: Nomadic Solidarity and Non- Status Migrant Resistance
… The nomad is the name of themigrant expelled from the territory, the barbarian is the name of the migrant expelled from political status or citizenship, the vagabond is the name of the migrant expelled from the juridical order, and
KINOPOLITICS AND THE FIGURE OF THE MIGRANT
We are witnessing today the return of a new theory and practice of revolution. This return, however, takes none of the traditional forms:the capture of the state, the political representation of the party, the centrality of the proletariat, or the leadership
Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo
Die Bewegung der Flüchtlinge und Migranten nach Europa ist keineswegs der Grund der gegenwärtigen Krise – der Grund ist Europa selbst. Migration gilt heute – und das wird fortdauern – als Grund für alle möglichen Krisen, und das war so
Schlagen die Horden gegen die Tore Europas?
The recent increase in movement of refugees and migrants into Europe is not the cause of the current crisis – Europe is. Migration has occurred – and will continue – for all kinds of reasons, as it has since the
The Hordes Are Banging on the Gates of Europe?
Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). His publications can be
“On Destroying What Destroys You”