For part three of our social media 'Decolonising' series, we have collaborated with the Migrants' Rights Network to explore what it means to decolonise migration.
Decolonisation involves putting an end to current forms of colonialism and imperialism that displace people from their homes, reparations, and creating a world where all people are free to move, but also free to stay.
Decolonisation also involves undoing the anti-migrant narratives that are based on a colonial understanding of what it means to be "civilised".
Finally, decolonisation involves an undoing of borders. Since the inception of the modern nation state, borders have been a colonial invention, designed to manage and control the movement of racialised and colonised people for profit.
What a world without borders could look like exists in the realm of imagination, however we can take inspiration from history. We can harness pre-colonial histories of movement, mobility and fluidity as a stepping-stone to envision what a world that serves everybody could look like.
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