ABSTRACT
A few years ago, when I presented some of the ideas for this book to my colleague, the political scientist Fabian Georgi, he commented that my critique of borders and migration provides a view into a narrow “crack, a fissure, which can be pried open to show the inhumanity of the whole system and the need to radically change it.” He is right. The infringement on individual freedom, the injustice and oppression, and the denial of a future that borders impose cannot be understood in isolation from global capitalism and its colonial history, or the continuing oppression of people based on citizenship, origin, racial markers, gender, or caste ascriptions. The demand for freedom of migration is only one step – albeit an important one – towards human liberation. The preceding chapters offer more than a critique of these narrow topics; they also criticize contemporary global society as a whole.
