"Worldmaking and Border Politics is a nuanced, generative assault on the dehumanization which characterizes our times. Amidst acute threats to those who cross borders, Anne McNevin offers imagination and opportunity. Not only is she an erudite guide to scholarship and current affairs, she lights a path to alternative framings, hope, and political possibilities."Loren Landau, University of Oxford
"In a time of hardening borders and narrowing futures, Anne McNevin's book compellingly reopens the potentiality of alternative ways of imagining polities not through utopian projects but via case studies of actual achievements. It is an inspiring inquiry into becoming and an invitation to think that another world is possible." Didier Fassin, co-author of Exile: Chronicle of the Border
"Through her powerful analysis of moments of resistance against border violence, McNevin shows us that borders are not hard divides but rather ropes of the ugly knotted practices we use to cordon off alien from citizen, and then she shows us, very precisely, how to pull at their threads and weave new futures of enduring interconnection and freedom. In this exquisite book, she gives us the border politics of hope." Natasha Iskander, New York University
"This is a much-needed and brilliant book, that invites us to move beyond no border/open border/closed border oppositions and situate a critical analysis of the politics of migration containment on the terrain of world-making practices. The challenge, McNevin compellingly argues, consists in engaging in a transformative critique of the border regime and envisioning a radically different border politics."Martina Tazzioli, University of Bologna
