Abstract
This concluding chapter takes on the particular challenge of framing an abolitionist refusal of border rules, drawing on lessons from Abolition Democracy, a political philosophy and movement that spans over 150 years. Linked with this call for a “refusal” is an insistence on the necessity for abolition. Refusal in itself is not enough, it is argued, since that implies a turning away, a rejection rather than a transformation. The discussion of a borderless future is grounded both in the foundational abolitionist work of W.E.B. Du Bois and in current calls to action by scholars such as Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Attention is also given to the some of the voices of the No Borders movement and their views, ranging from reform and refusal to revolution. An argument is made for the abolition of borders and thus a transformation of existing social relations. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that a borderless world is one in which the social relations of production based on those who own capital and those who are forced to sell their labor power are permanently disrupted.