Laura Lambert: Contesting and Decentring Border Externalization - Perspectives from West Africa p2p

Europe’s borders are increasingly located in Africa. Migrants are forcibly stopped there or deported back there. Development funds or humanitarian aid promise them a better future in Africa. These promises often fail. This so-called externalization policy has become a central component of of European migration and foreign policy. How can a critique of it look like? And how can Europe as a central reference point in these often Eurocentric debates be underbined? Based on some externalization policies in West Africa, the talk develops some starting points for critique and decentring. Building on her involvement in the academic-activist platform migration-control.info, Lambert also sketches possible perspectives for transnational and transversal cooperation for the right to go and to stay.

This lecture will be in English and is part of the event program of the exhibition Dis/b/orderly with Sudabe Yunesi, Robert Bostantzis Diamantopoulos and Georg Juranek from 03.12. - 15.12.2024.

This exhibition is curated and organized by Sophie McCuen-Koytek as part of the Kunstraum.p2p format.