Research: Research: Solidarity and conflict in the political experience of crossing borders
The research focuses on the analysis of the crossing of borders of illegalized people on the move at the European borders as a political and social mobilization characterized by a political, collective, embodied and non-conforming action, demanding freedom of movement and a dignified life. This can be done through the theoretical and methodological perspective of the Autonomy of Migrations which represents the attempt to acknowledge migration not simply as a response to political and economic needs, but as a constitutive force in the formation of the political and social system. Therefore, the racialized and illegalized bodies gathered at borders make mobility both the object of a claim and an instrument of struggle. Consequently, the research wants to demonstrate how the experience of crossing borders, as a political and social mobilization, allows the appropriation of the political forms of conflict and solidarity, as the foundation of political action. The investigation will also have the goal of showing how this appropriation also produces a resignification of these political forms, demonstrating how mobility has become an indispensable analytical and critical lens for understanding social change. This mobility enable us to rethink not only the notions of political theory, but the political action itself. This makes it possible to reaffirm the autonomous perspective of migration in an alternative way as a challenge to the existing political order, therefore to its institutions and regulations, which in this case are represented by the European border regime, making us question its necessity and effectiveness.
Keywords: mobility, border, conflict, solidarity, social movement
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Sara Marilungo earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science for Cooperation and Development, in 2019, with a thesis in Cultural Anthropology at "Roma Tre" University. In 2022, she earned the master's degree cum laude in Sciences for International Development and Cooperation at "La Sapienza" University, with a thesis in Political Thought of Colonization and Decolonization entitled "Corpi di frontiera. Linee di confine come spazi di vita”, resulting as winner of a scholarship for a thesis abroad. Currently, she is a PhD student in Political Studies at the Department of Political Sciences of "La Sapienza" University.