No Border network

Groups from the No Border network have been involved in organising a number of protest camps (called "No Border Camps" or sometimes "Border Camps" or "Transborder Camps"), e.g. in Strasbourg,{{cite web |url=http://noborder.org/strasbourg/index.php |title=International noborder-camp 2002 in Strasbourg |access-date=2008-10-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206154426/http://noborder.org/strasbourg/index.php |archive-date=2009-02-06}}{{cite web |author=Shuddhabrata Sengupta |title=No Border Camp Strasbourg : A Report, 29 Jul 2002|url=http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-July/001673.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040313103106/http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2002-July/001734.html |archive-date=2004-03-13}} France (2002), Otranto, Italy (2003), Cologne (2003, 2012), Gatwick Airport (2007), United Kingdom,{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7004617.stm | work=BBC News | title=Protest camp starts near Gatwick | date=20 September 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}}{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7001629.stm | work=BBC News | title=Protesters blame police over camp | date=18 September 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}} at Patras, Greece,{{cite web |title=No Border Patras 2008 |url=http://www.noborderpatras.org/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915181527/http://www.noborderpatras.org/en/article.php?id=6 |archive-date=2008-09-15}} Dikili, Turkey (2008),{{cite web |title=Turkey, Dikili, No Border Camp |url=http://www.ainfos.ca/08/sep/ainfos00188.html |date= 13 September 2008 |access-date=3 May 2015}} Calais, France (2009, 2015),{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Lesvos, Greece (2009),{{cite web |title=Noborder Lesvos '09 welcomes you |url=http://w2eu.net/2009/08/25/noborder-lesvos-09-welcomes-you/ |publisher=Welcome to Europe (formerly lesvos09.antira.info) |date=25 August 2009 |access-date=3 May 2015}} Brussels, Belgium (2010), Siva Reka, Bulgaria (2011),{{cite web |title=No Border Camp in Bulgaria: 25th to 29th of August 2011 |url=http://w2eu.net/2011/06/28/no-border-camp-in-bulgaria-25th-to-29th-of-august-2011/ |date=28 June 2011 |publisher=Welcome to Europe |access-date=3 May 2015}}{{cite web |title=Some news from No Border Camp Bulgaria |url=https://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/some-news-from-no-border-camp-bulgaria/ |date=5 September 2011 |access-date=3 May 2015}} Stockholm, Sweden (2012), Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2013),{{cite web |url=http://nobordercamp.nl/ |title=No Border Camp Rotterdam 2013 – August |date=6 August 2013 |publisher=No Border Netwerk Nederland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806232206/http://nobordercamp.nl/ |archive-date=6 August 2013 |access-date=12 May 2019}} Ventimiglia, Italy (2015),{{cite web |title=Ventimiglia everywhere |url=https://www.dinamopress.it/news/ventimiglia-everywhere/ |date=1 October 2015 |access-date=12 May 2019}} Thessaloniki, Greece (2016),{{cite web |title=A collection of texts presented at the Thessaloniki No Border Camp (July 15–24, 2016) |url=https://noborder2016.espivblogs.net/2017/08/02/a-collection-of-texts-presented-at-the-thessaloniki-no-border-camp-july-15-24-2016-updated-by-their-authors/ |date=2 August 2017 |access-date=12 May 2019}} near Nantes, France (2019) in Wassenaar, Netherlands (2019), near Nantes, France (2022), and in Rotterdam, Netherlands (2022).

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On 18 December 2007, to coincide with the UN International Migrants Day, the network carried out a coordinated blockade of Border and Immigration Agency (now UK Border Agency) offices{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/18/immigration.politics | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Protesters blockade immigration depots | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010 | first1=Sarah | last1=Bridge}} in Bristol, Portsmouth, Newcastle{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7149560.stm | work=BBC News | title=Activists hold dawn raid protests | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}} and Glasgow{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7149334.stm | work=BBC News | title=Dawn raid demonstrators arrested | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}} to prevent dawn raids by immigration officers from taking place. This form of action has been repeated across the UK by the network several times since.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7240374.stm | work=BBC News | title=Protest at deportation dawn raids | date=12 February 2008 | access-date=7 April 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6301.htm |title=SchNEWS 630 - Snatch of the Day |website=Schnews.org.uk |date=2008-05-02 |access-date=2016-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190511/http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6301.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead}}

On 24 October 2008, Phil Woolas, UK Minister of State for Borders and Immigration was pied by No Borders activists{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7690324.stm | work=BBC News | title=Migrant row minister hit by pie | date=24 October 2008 | access-date=7 April 2010}} following his remarks on population control.

On 10 August 2013, No Border groups from The Netherlands squatted a large terrain at Rotterdam to gather and held several demonstrations.{{Cite web|last=Redactie|date=2013-08-10|title=Enkele honderden activisten No Border in Rotterdam|url=https://www.parool.nl/gs-bd446a99|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Het Parool|language=nl-NL}}

In February 2010 No Borders groups from the UK and France opened a large centre for refugees sleeping rough in Calais, France, under the name "Kronstadt Hangar".{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/feb/04/asylum-seekers-calais-uk-france | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Solidarity is not an offence | first=Rahila | last=Gupta | date=4 February 2010 | access-date=7 April 2010}}

Calais authorities have accused "extremist activists" within to the No Borders network of being "driven by an anarchist ideology of hatred of all laws and frontiers" and engaging in, and encouraging, violence and harassment against French police and social workers at the Calais Jungle migrant camp, as well as "manipulating" and "misleading" the migrants living there.{{cite news|author=John Lichfield |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-uk-activists-dangerous-and-dont-care-about-refugees-says-official-responsible-for-a6905871.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-uk-activists-dangerous-and-dont-care-about-refugees-says-official-responsible-for-a6905871.html |archive-date=2022-06-21 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Calais Jungle: 'Dangerous' UK activists don't care about refugees, says official responsible for clearing camp |newspaper=The Independent |date=2016-03-01 |access-date=2016-10-29}}

After the intercultural philosophy journal "polylog" demanded in connection with the book "Global Freedom of Movement: A Philosophical Plea for Open Borders" that the "debate on freedom of migration or restrictions on immigration should be received more strongly in the context of intercultural philosophizing",Nausikaa Schirilla: »Politisch unbequem – kein Recht auf Ausschluss?« In: http://www.polylog.net/fileadmin/docs/polylog/39/39_rez_Schirilla_Cassee.pdf. WiGiP, 2018, retrieved 16 December 2020. new local groups such as [http://NoBorder.%20NoProblem NoBorder. NoProblem] oriented themselves to international migration-sensitive contributions - also in connection with Islamic and decolonial feminisms, degrowth, global ecofeminisms, or the "ethnic studies" less known in the German-speaking world.{{cite web | url=https://nobordernoproblem.org/blog/wissenschaftliche-beitraege/ | title=Forschender Aktivismus – NoBorder. NoProblem.}} The group is a student-run independent project of the [https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/histories-of-philosophy/ Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim], which itself conducts research on philosophies in global perspective.

• Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay: a No Borders Reader. London: No Borders, 2007.
• James A. Chamberlain. [https://www.academia.edu/24720271/_Minoritarian_Democracy_The_Democratic_Case_for_No_Borders_Constellations_An_International_Journal_of_Critical_and_Democratic_Theory_forthcoming_ Minoritarian Democracy: The Democratic Case for No Borders] Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (forthcoming)

• Glasgow Girls (activists)
• UNITY (asylum seekers organisation)
• No one is illegal
• No Borders Orchestra
• Hellenic Rescue Team
• Iuventa
• Chiara Lauvergnac
• Mediterranea Saving Humans
• Migrant Offshore Aid Station
• Proactiva Open Arms
• Sea-Watch
• SOS Méditerranée

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