Migration and Mobile Rights

‘This thought-provoking book paves the ground for developing an abolitionist approach to borders that, instead of just dismantling and tearing down, enacts world making practices through a tactical use of human rights and the law. By introducing the notion of “mobile rights”, the book poignantly shows how a radical critique of state-based norms and racialized border mechanisms might hold together with mobilisations grounded in emancipatory and non-legal notions of human rights. In a time of socio-political fragmentation, it is paramount to interrogate how to re-compose and build up, without falling back into the trap of methodological nationalism. Perolini invites us to look at migrants’ constituent struggles, escaping the binary between reform and revolution. This is an invaluable book for critical migration and border scholars who are interested in interrogating what a transformative critique of the border regime today should look like.’ Martina Tazzioli, University of Bologna

Marco Perolini is a human rights research and policy specialist and Visiting Fellow with LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science.