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Remember and Resist: Borders, Solidarity and the Essex 39Author: The Essex 39 Campaign Group
Remember and Resist: Borders, Solidarity and the Essex 39 is a podcast by the Remember the Essex 39 Campaign, who came together in October 2019 after the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in the back of a lorry trying to get into the UK. We organise around issues of border violence facing East and South-East Asian migrant communities, and we stand in resistance to the hostile environment currently being implemented in the UK. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Undoing Borders, Building Solidarity
Episode 3
Monday, 10 August, 2020
The struggle for migrant justice will only win if we commit to a world without borders, and the exploitative economic system––capitalism––that created them in the first place. The same system has been used to justify and legitimize colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and ongoing forms of all three phenomena, up to the present day. The ultimate effect is to marginalize and oppress people of colour; to maintain itself, the state must continually think of ways to enact racialized violence against communities it has decided are deviant and criminal by their very existence. It is no mistake, for example, that immigration detention centers are often described as being ‘prison-like’. The solution, though, is not to make such centers less like prisons, but to abolish the institutions and systems that make criminalizing and ‘disappearing’ people the solution to endemic social problems. Chaired by Rudy Schulkind (Bail for Immigration Detainees), author Maya Goodfellow, researcher Angelica Udueni, and Minnie Rahman (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) on the importance of abolitionist solidarity.
