Acts of Disengagement in Border Struggles: Fugitive Practices of Refusal

This paper explores people's acts of disengagement from activist campaign and group spaces in the context border struggle activism Germany UK as fugitive practices refusal. These took form remaining silent or intentionally distracted, sleeping during meetings, distancing oneself groups conversations, completely withdrawing these spaces. The approaches acts, first, refusal that expose notions political rooted liberal struggles over power freedom not only risky but also inherently self-defeating and, second, radically optimistic vitalising recovery care insist on alternative modes thinking, practising, experiencing sociality can inspire us to consider agency relation wider abolitionist projects.