Description
Critical migration and border abolitionist scholars have long since demonstrated that our current border imaginaries are materially unsustainable and morally unjustifiable in the face of climate change, globalisation, and conflict. However, there is a tension between border abolition and human rights that has yet to be resolved. How can asylum seekers be kept safe in a borderless world? That is to say, if we abolish borders, what mechanisms are there to stop those being persecuted being pursued by their persecutors (specifically state actors)? In this paper I do not offer an answer to this problem, but rather to open a provocation by critically engaging with existing literature on border abolitionism and human rights to get a sense of where an answer may lie, and what action we, as border abolitionists, have to take to get there.
