No Border network

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The No Border Network (In the United Kingdom also called "No Borders Network" or "Noborders Network") refers to loose associations of autonomous organisations, groups, and individuals in Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and beyond. They support freedom of movement and resist human migration control by coordinating international border camps, demonstrations, direct actions, and anti-deportation campaigns.

The Western European network opposes what it says are increasingly restrictive harmonisation of asylum and immigration policy in Europe, and aims to build alliances among migrant laborers and refugees. Common slogans used by the Network include; "No Border, No Nation, Stop Deportations!" and "No one is illegal."

No Border Network has existed since 1999, and its website since 2000. The No Borders Network in the United Kingdom claims to have local groups in 11 cities.

No Border Camps

Groups from the No Border network have been involved in organising a number of protest camps (called "No Border Camps" or sometimes "Border Camps" or "Transborder Camps"), e.g. in Strasbourg, France (2002), Otranto, Italy (2003), Cologne (2003, 2012), Gatwick Airport (2007), United Kingdom, at Patras, Greece, Dikili, Turkey (2008), Calais, France (2009, 2015), Lesvos, Greece (2009), Brussels, Belgium (2010), Siva Reka, Bulgaria (2011), Stockholm, Sweden (2012), Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2013), Ventimiglia, Italy (2015), Thessaloniki, Greece (2016), near Nantes, France (2019) in Wassenaar, Netherlands (2019), near Nantes, France (2022), and in Rotterdam, Netherlands (2022).

Activities

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On 18 December 2007, to coincide with the UN International Migrants Day, the network carried out a coordinated blockade of Border and Immigration Agency (now UK Border Agency) offices in Bristol, Portsmouth, Newcastle and Glasgow to prevent dawn raids by immigration officers from taking place. This form of action has been repeated across the UK by the network several times since.

On 24 October 2008, Phil Woolas, UK Minister of State for Borders and Immigration was pied by No Borders activists following his remarks on population control.

On 10 August 2013, No Border groups from The Netherlands squatted a large terrain at Rotterdam to gather and held several demonstrations.

In February 2010 No Borders groups from the UK and France opened a large centre for refugees sleeping rough in Calais, France, under the name "Kronstadt Hangar".

Calais authorities have accused "extremist activists" within to the No Borders network of being "driven by an anarchist ideology of hatred of all laws and frontiers" and engaging in, and encouraging, violence and harassment against French police and social workers at the Calais Jungle migrant camp, as well as "manipulating" and "misleading" the migrants living there.

After the intercultural philosophy journal "polylog" demanded in connection with the book "Global Freedom of Movement: A Philosophical Plea for Open Borders" that the "debate on freedom of migration or restrictions on immigration should be received more strongly in the context of intercultural philosophizing", new local groups such as NoBorder. NoProblem oriented themselves to international migration-sensitive contributions - also in connection with Islamic and decolonial feminisms, degrowth, global ecofeminisms, or the "ethnic studies" less known in the German-speaking world. The group is a student-run independent project of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, which itself conducts research on philosophies in global perspective.

Legacy

Support by the broader anarchist movement

The No Border network was heavily talked about and supported at Anarchy 2023, one of the major gatherings of the anarchist movement in the 21st century.

Publications

References

Other sources

  • {{Citation | surname = Cohen | given = Steve | title = Deportation Is Freedom! The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls
  • {{Citation | surname = Cohen | given = Steve | title = No One is Illegal: Asylum and Immigration Control, Past and Present | year = 2003 | publisher = Trentham | isbn = 9781858562919 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XWFooiFon24C&q=no+one+is+illegal+steve+cohen}}.
  • {{Citation | surname = Hamm | given = Marion | year = 2002 | title = A r/c tivism in Physical and Virtual Spaces | url = http://www.eipcp.net/transversal/1203/hamm/en | access-date = 2008-10-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161026000219/http://www.eipcp.net/transversal/1203/hamm/en | archive-date = 2016-10-26 | url-status = dead
  • {{Citation | surname = Schneider | given = Florian | year = 2002 | title = Knocking Holes In Fortress Europe | url = http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors2/schneidertext.html
  • {{Citation |surname = Sengupta |given = Shuddhabrata |year = 2002 |title = No Border Camp Strasbourg : A Report |url = http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-July/001673.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040313103106/http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-July/001734.html |archive-date = 2004-03-13
  • {{Citation | surname = Hauptfleisch | given = Wolfgang | year = 2002 | publication-place = Muenster | journal = Graswurzelrevolution 271/2002 | title = Come Together – Das erste europäische Grenzcamp in Straßbourg vom 19.-28. Juli 2002
  • {{Citation | surname = Tsavdaroglou | given = Charalampos | year = 2019 | title = Reimagining a Transnational Right to the City: No Border Actions and Commoning Practices in Thessaloniki | journal = Social Inclusion | volume = 7 | issue = 2 | pages = 219–229 | doi = 10.17645/si.v7i2.1973 | s2cid = 198670655 | url = https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1973 | doi-access = free

References

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  4. "NoBorders UK general public mailinglist".
  5. "International noborder-camp 2002 in Strasbourg".
  6. Shuddhabrata Sengupta. "No Border Camp Strasbourg : A Report, 29 Jul 2002".
  7. (20 September 2007). "Protest camp starts near Gatwick". BBC News.
  8. (18 September 2007). "Protesters blame police over camp". BBC News.
  9. "No Border Patras 2008".
  10. (13 September 2008). "Turkey, Dikili, No Border Camp".
  11. (25 August 2009). "Noborder Lesvos '09 welcomes you". Welcome to Europe (formerly lesvos09.antira.info).
  12. (28 June 2011). "No Border Camp in Bulgaria: 25th to 29th of August 2011". Welcome to Europe.
  13. (5 September 2011). "Some news from No Border Camp Bulgaria".
  14. (6 August 2013). "No Border Camp Rotterdam 2013 – August". No Border Netwerk Nederland.
  15. (1 October 2015). "Ventimiglia everywhere".
  16. (2 August 2017). "A collection of texts presented at the Thessaloniki No Border Camp (July 15–24, 2016)".
  17. (18 December 2007). "Protesters blockade immigration depots". The Guardian.
  18. (18 December 2007). "Activists hold dawn raid protests". BBC News.
  19. (18 December 2007). "Dawn raid demonstrators arrested". BBC News.
  20. (12 February 2008). "Protest at deportation dawn raids". BBC News.
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  22. (24 October 2008). "Migrant row minister hit by pie". BBC News.
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  24. Gupta, Rahila. (4 February 2010). "Solidarity is not an offence". The Guardian.
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