EuroNomade | 05.04.2018
Crimes of solidarity: such an expression appears as a contradiction in terms, a real oxymoron. Nevertheless, it conveys very well the meaning at the heart of a two-fold conflict, which sees, on the one hand, the criminalisation of European citizens who are mobilising in support of migrants in transit and, on the other, the strengthening of solidarity practices and networks in border areas and in many urban centres.
While we are witnessing asylum seekers being preventatively illegalised in Europe and containment policies multiplying on the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the autonomous infrastructures created to support migrants in transit are not only capable of giving rise to a logistics of resistance against the security policies of border controls, but are also able to produce more or less temporary or permanent fractures in the militarised space of “Fortress Europe”.