ABSTRACT
The history of anarchism is deeply connected with human mobility. This chapter explores how anarchists approach the migratory experience through several stages of experience, starting with their journey. The journey is the first stage shared by all migrants and therefore by all anarchists who went into exile. Anarchists, who for decades have fought to remove all borders and obstacles to liberty, have experienced exile, either forced or voluntary; they have also participated in mass migrations affecting their countries of origin or, in many cases, become anarchists in their host countries. Migration is intrinsically subversive, in the etymological sense of turning upside down, for the individual, but also for the groups that they leave and the ones they join. The stages through which migrants travel do not represent a set psychological journey. They form sequences of events, materially linked with the migratory condition, sequences in the face of which individuals write their own histories and generate their own emotions.
