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Guest Editor alex and kev

greenpepper magazine

2002-12-02

borders

Our own lives, our own histories are the histories of movement, globalisation and new beginnings, departures and arrivals. We wanted to draw the threads together to create a document which took us from this beginning, this ability to identify with movemen

Contents

A Brief History of Migration
Border Camps : The New ‘Sexy’ Thing?
Border Panic: White Imperialism and Illegality
borders editorial
Borders Resistance!
Female Migrants and Anti-Trafficking Legislation
Joy.. Repression... Possibilities
Knocking on the Doors of the Lion's Den
Labour, unions, migrants and race
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed: on Globalisation and Migrat
Maintaining the Borders: identity & politics
Migration and the Environment
Migration and the Environment : A Response
restore the commons! break the borders!
Roma Compilation
SIS : The Dawn of Digital Borders
The Borders of Everyday Life
The International Organisation for Migration
UP Against the Walls of Fortress Europe
Xeno-racism, nationalism and Fear of the 'Other'

borders editorial

Obviously we couldn’t include everything about borders that we wanted to, so in time honoured greenpepper tradition, we’ve tried to include a bit of everything; specific situations, the broader political and economic implications of migration control, a f
borders editorial Continued...
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Border Panic: White Imperialism and Illegality

Attention to national borders has figured prominently in the post-9-11 world. At the same time that some national state boundaries are flagrantly ignored - as in the US-led bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq - the borders that define ‘First World’ space are
Border Panic: White Imperialism and Illegality Continued...

Female Migrants and Anti-Trafficking Legislation

At the turn of this century, panic surfaced about the "white slave trade", torrid stories abounded of "innocent girls completely ignorant of sex (…) compelled to submit to the corrupt and degraded desires of men sunk in vice and perversion."
Female Migrants and Anti-Trafficking Legislation Continued...

Border Camps : The New ‘Sexy’ Thing?

A personal account of the Strasbourg noborder camp and its wider implications for where "we" are going.
Border Camps : The New ‘Sexy’ Thing? Continued...

Labour, unions, migrants and race

The Australian union movement's relationship with questions of race and migration has always been uneasy, with strong currents of nationalism and racism running through its dealing with question of so-called "illegal" workers.
Labour, unions, migrants and race Continued...

Joy.. Repression... Possibilities

A personal account of the anti-FTAA mobilisations that took place in Ecuador in Oct/Nov 2002
Joy.. Repression... Possibilities Continued...

Xeno-racism, nationalism and Fear of the 'Other'

As capital moves ever more freely around the world; we are being locked up, confined, enclosed.
Xeno-racism, nationalism and Fear of the 'Other' Continued...

restore the commons! break the borders!

To restore the commons is to resist capital's enclosures. To restore the commons is to refuse to be defined by capital's borders. But to restore the commons is to do more than simply escape. Rather it is to create a new world. In our refusal we should all
restore the commons! break the borders! Continued...

The Borders of Everyday Life

When we think about borders it is often the prison camps and the deaths of those attempting to cross borders that come to mind. However, borders of exclusion and poverty permeate most aspects of the lives of the poor in capitalist society.
The Borders of Everyday Life Continued...

The International Organisation for Migration

During the protest camp in Strasbourg, the international NoBorder network decided to launch a campaign against the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
The International Organisation for Migration Continued...

Knocking on the Doors of the Lion's Den

In July 2002 I was informed by the Australian Embassy in Washington that I was denied a visa. I did not pass the "Character Test", a provision of the Australian Migration Act that allows the Minister of Immigration to deny a visa because of the applicant'
Knocking on the Doors of the Lion's Den Continued...

Maintaining the Borders: identity & politics

Identity is the process of creating and maintaining borders, creating different kinds of people. This keeps the world packaged in tidy little boxes. These boxes, in turn, are necessary for the violence and domination of hierarchical societies.
Maintaining the Borders: identity & politics Continued...

Migration and the Environment

If you want to highlight political differences within the ‘green’ movement, using ‘environment’ and ‘population’ in the same sentence is a good way to do it.
Migration and the Environment Continued...

A Brief History of Migration

Human history is the history of migration and the most 'sophisticated' civilizations arose where human traffic was heaviest.
A Brief History of Migration Continued...

Borders Resistance!

Resistance to borders is always happening in varying degrees of visibility; from the people who cross borders clandestinely, who travel without papers, or with false ones, to those holding hunger strikes inside camps, resisting their deportation, from com
Borders Resistance! Continued...

Roma Compilation

Originally from northwest India, Roma have been living in Europe for more than 900 years. Continuing prejudices dictate that Roma are seen less as an ethnic group and more as a nomadic people.
Roma Compilation Continued...

SIS : The Dawn of Digital Borders

Invisible and unaccountable, the Schengen Information System(SIS) exemplifies the more undemocratic and repressive elements of the nascent European Union(EU).
SIS : The Dawn of Digital Borders Continued...

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed: on Globalisation and Migrat

Whether migrants come seeking asylum or economic benefits, either way the causes of their movement are political. For globalisation directly and indirectly causes poverty, displacement and migrants.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed: on Globalisation and Migrat Continued...

UP Against the Walls of Fortress Europe

On Europe’s southern borders, where Spain meets Northern Africa, the reality of “Fortress Europe” is very stark. The lines between rich and poor are not rhetorical here; they are fortified with bricks and barbed wire
UP Against the Walls of Fortress Europe Continued...

Migration and the Environment : A Response

Cam Walker makes a go at this arguement. where this falls short in my opinion is the framing of the issues within a liberal-leftist discourse and not a more radical grassroots and anti-capitalist one
Migration and the Environment : A Response Continued...
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