Abstract
Within Transnational migrant solidarity projects, activists have embraced a variety of concepts, including safer spaces, community accountability and grassroots justice, in an attempt to negate brutal, racialised notions of state sanctioned security practices, where ‘protection’ is guaranteed through tighter border controls and the consolidation of the prison-industrial complex.
In this chapter, I will use the word ‘safety’ to refer to the affective notion of feeling care, (explained further below), that I think is necessary and desirable for human sociality. On the other hand, I use the word ‘security’ for the institutional and state-sanctioned responses to feelings of being unsafe, that I think perpetuate the process of ‘Othering’ in both the mainstream discourse about migrants post September 11th, and also (problematically) in the anti-racist activist collectives in which I participate.
In this chapter, I will use the word ‘safety’ to refer to the affective notion of feeling care, (explained further below), that I think is necessary and desirable for human sociality. On the other hand, I use the word ‘security’ for the institutional and state-sanctioned responses to feelings of being unsafe, that I think perpetuate the process of ‘Othering’ in both the mainstream discourse about migrants post September 11th, and also (problematically) in the anti-racist activist collectives in which I participate.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent |
| Editors | Stuart Price, Ruth Sanz Sabido |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Rowman and Littlefield |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pages | 171-189 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781783481774 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781783481767, 9781783481750 |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2014 |