The Western European network opposes what it says are increasingly restrictive harmonisation of asylum and immigration policy in Europe, and aims to build alliances among migrant laborers and refugees. Common slogans used by the Network include; "No Border, No Nation, Stop Deportations!" and "No one is illegal."[2]
No Border Network has existed since 1999,[3] and its website since 2000. The No Borders Network in the United Kingdom claims to have local groups in 11 cities.[4]
On 10 August 2013, No Border groups from The Netherlands squatted a large terrain at Rotterdam to gather and held several demonstrations.[23]
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".[24]
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.[25]
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",[26] new local groups such as 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.[27] The group is a student-run independent project of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, which itself conducts research on philosophies in global perspective.
Publications
Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay: a No Borders Reader. London: No Borders, 2007.
^Naples, Nancy A.; Mendez, Jennifer Bickham (2014-10-31). Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization. NYU Press. p. 301. ISBN978-1-4798-5817-0.
Hauptfleisch, Wolfgang (2002), "Come Together – Das erste europäische Grenzcamp in Straßbourg vom 19.-28. Juli 2002", Graswurzelrevolution 271/2002, Muenster.