Fortress capitalism or freedom of movement

Registration at: no-borders-no-nations@systemli.org

PROGRAM

BLOCK I: Basics

Ivo Eichhorn: What are boundaries?

Hannah Sommer: Rejections at the German border

BLOCK II: Highlights on the European border regime

Alexander Kern: The border regime in the world system. The example of Melilla

Matthias Maier (Seebrücke Frankfurt am Main): Criminalization of civil sea rescue as a central feature of isolationism

Theresa (Seebrücke Frankfurt am Main & Friends): On the situation at the borders Germany/Poland and Poland/Belarus

Lunch break

BLOCK III: Exploitation and the right to stay

Christina Engelmann: Black feminist analyses of racialized exploitation and exclusion

Janika Kuge: The Sanctuary Strategy. Struggles for a subnational right to stay in the USA

Gülten Gizem Fesli: Transnational care workers in German and US-American border regions

BLOCK IV: Practices of Solidarity

Valeria Hänsel (medico): Struggles for the right to freedom of movement and criminalization of solidarity at the European borders

Nadine (Seebrücke Frankfurt am Main): Presentation of Seebrücke and the new campaign Grenzen auf! - on land, at sea and in the mind

Frankfurt says no to the payment card: Presentation of the initiative

BLOCK V: Global freedom of movement

Fabian Georgi: Realizing open borders. Freedom of movement as a concrete utopia

Book presentation of Borders and Freedom of Movement. A critical introduction