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Article Dans Une Revue Justice spatiale = Spatial justice Année : 2012

Open Borders: A Utopia?

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Critics have dismissed the notion of open borders as utopian. In this article I argue that open borders are not a utopia. My concern, however, is not whether open borders are practical or politically feasible. Rather, my point is that the notion of open borders is merely a critique and a negation of the contemporary condition of closed borders. It does not articulate concrete alternatives, which would be a characteristic of utopia. Furthermore, drawing on the 'Frankfurt School' of critical theory, I suggest that concrete utopias that incorporate the notion of open borders must be rejected. Instead, the path towards an open-border world is a dialectical one in which the imagination of the future cannot be fixed.
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halshs-01518746 , version 1 (05-05-2017)

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Harald Bauder. Open Borders: A Utopia?. Justice spatiale = Spatial justice, 2012, Utopia and Spatial Justice, 5, http://www.jssj.org/article/un-monde-sans-frontieres/. ⟨halshs-01518746⟩

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