Teresa Degenhardt

In an increasingly fractured world, with the emergence of the far right in Europe and beyond and the recent pogroms in the UK, this project articulates a vision of an inclusive future in the narratives of the movement supporting migrants’ rights in Italy in the late 1990s to early 2000s. It investigates the emergence of global solidarity in the past as a way to uncover what values and context enable the vision of a future without borders in which all people are afforded public protection. It provides resources to counter the policy of securitization through migrant detention and deportation that is typical of these uncertain times. What sorts of ideas for a future without borders did people have in the late 1990s? The objective is to recover some hope from the past to contribute to the prospect of border abolitionism in Europe.