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TSS Platform | 10.2017

by LORENZO DELFINO (Migrant Coordination, Italy)

Starting from migrants’ experience in Ventimiglia, this contribution focuses not only on the violence of the borders regime, but also on the determination of migrants. The attempts to stop or limit their arrivals face their commitment to strike the border, to refuse the asylum system and the government of mobility that pretends to manage and filter migrants’ movement. The current attempts to “close the Mediterranean Sea” are to be conceived as a reaction to the protagonism of migrants. At the same time these attempts, made by the Italian government in line with European institutions and policies, open new challenges for those who struggle against the borders – both territorial and social –, since they increase denials and deportations, intensify hierarchies and differences among migrants, worsen social violence and racism. Migrants’ experience in Ventimiglia shows migrants’ movement as a daily social strike with a transnational resonance and remarks the political importance of a European Residence Permit without conditions as a tool to fight borders regime and precarity.

Italy, supported by the European Union, is committed to close once and for all the central Mediterranean route. In the meanwhile, its borders, both social and territorial, are the field on which not only violence but also struggles and insubordination keep on reproducing.

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