Current border controls and policies have evolved into mechanisms of management and deterrence that disproportionately affect illegalised persons in the context of human mobility. This project proposes an analytical shift that foregrounds the personal experiences and forms of resistance articulated by people directly affected by migration controls and who have endured the continuum of border violence. By considering the experiences as sites of contestation and agency, the project aims to develop a critical perspective on how these lived experiences and resistance have the potential to serve as a breaking point against the violence and exclusion inherent in the continuum of border violence. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at two research sites at the South-North divide, the project analyses and conceptualises how personal experiences can enable strategies to challenge the continuum of border violence promoting everyday peace and social inclusion.

2025

2029