RT Article
T1 The Possibilities of Open and No Borders
JF Social justice
VO 39
IS 4
SP 76
OP 96
A1 Bauder, Harald 1969-
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747155721
AB An overarching constraint for free human mobility is that international political borders are only selectively permeable. Drawing on Ernst Bloch's work on the possible, the author examines open-borders and no-border arguments and explores the conditions of their possibilities. Although open-borders and no-border narratives serve as a powerful negation of contemporary conditions of closed and/or controlled borders, the possibility of free human mobility would either require the reconfiguration of existing citizenship principles and practices or more substantive structural transformations. Domicile-based citizenship could facilitate open borders under existing political configurations, whereas no border would require a fundamental rearrangement of the geographies of mobility and belonging.
K1 Domicile
K1 Citizenship -- Government policy
K1 Emigration & Immigration
K1 Geographic boundaries
K1 Freedom of movement