Unsettling Solidarity: Towards A Materialistic Approach To Border Transgression

Resumo

Is it possible to rethink the idea of solidarity beyond traditional and mainstream frameworks of analysis, between humanitarianism, political action, and charity? Can we deprovincialize a concept which was mainly developed in the Global North and re-imagine it
starting from cases and situations in the South, non-Western agencies, and worldviews? Can we reinterpret the production of solidarity as a process which is fundamentally enmeshed in the underground informal economy of border transgression? Based on three ethnographic case studies from North Africa, this article aims to raise new questions about the heuristic dimension of solidarity, fostering our understanding of the relational and political dynamics at work along contemporary illegalized migration routes. More broadly, it will attempt to shed light on the production of solidarity as a fluid situation which is always in the making from a materialistic perspective. This requires us to think about spurious contexts and practices which exceed conceptual binaries such as "smugglers" and "facilitators", "profit" and "not-for-profit", even "donor" and "recipient," by looking at invisible and informal interactions and relations, tactical alliances, infrastructures, mutual aid, and cooperation among people on the move

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