ABSTRACT
By examining the role of critical knowledge and claims to justice in the field of migration, this afterword highlights current political conundrums resulting from attempts to produce evidence of state violations of human rights and infringements of international law. What, we wonder, can be done when EUrope's devastating border violence becomes not only increasingly exposed but also increasingly inconsequential? What can be the role of critique besides unveiling evidence of a “truth” that is already known? By exploring these questions, we interrogate possibilities for thinking critique and justice beyond, or in addition to, evidence-making practices and propose to regard the creation of an archive of migrant struggles as a way toward a transformative border politics. Such an archive of struggles, this afterword argues, is formed not merely through contemporary migratory movements but also through past acts of solidarity whose memory can be reactivated in the present. We suggest that justice claims can be grounded on such sedimented memory of migrant struggles and infrastructures of solidarity.
