Building Borders and “No Borders”: Infrastructural Politics as Imagination

Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a “crisis” in Europe, language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations political imaginations. This led many to argue for strict closure borders deportation migrants or “people on move,” 1 deepening set racisms within borders. But this also less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, service more egalitarian world. I that order really understand how are being regulated unregulated, we need look not only at international legal realm, but infrastructural politics. 2 In Essay, will discuss two different terrains over borders: first is about border walls, which built close off resources partition world into haves have nots; second an infrastructure collective living, where people-on-the-move occupying abandoned spaces working private property. suggest it important attend dimensions regimes, as they can produce regularize exclusion conceal from conventional field discussion contestation. At same time, new infrastructures prefigure better, equitable worlds.