Against Borders: The Case for Abolition

A powerful manifesto for a world without borders from two immigration policy experts and activists

Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.

Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both.

Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by now be a simple truth: borders are not only at the edges of national territory, in airports, or at border walls. Borders are everyday and everywhere; they follow people around and get between us, and disrupt our collective safety, freedom and flourishing.

Against Borders is a passionate manifesto for border abolition, arguing that we must transform society and our relationships to one another, and build a world in which everyone has the freedom to move and to stay.

Author: Gracie Mae Bradley, Luke de Noronha
Publisher: Verso
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781839761959

About the Author
Gracie Mae Bradley currently is acting Policy Director at Liberty. She was was a founding member of the grassroots Against Borders for Children campaign. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, OpenDemocracy, VICE, Labour List, Media Diversified, and Consented Magazine. Her publications include 'A Portrait of the Colonised', in EUROTRASH, published in 2016 by Merve Verlag, and 'From Grenfell to Windrush' in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response, published in 2019 by Pluto Press.

Luke de Noronha is an academic and writer working at the University of Manchester. Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica was published in 2020. He has written for the Guardian, Verso blogs, VICE, Red Pepper, Open Democracy, The New Humanist, and Ceasefire Magazine. He has also produced a podcast with deported people in Jamaica, Deportation Discs.