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Between 29 March and 17 May 2023, the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC research) facilitated an online community course on ‘Resisting the criminalisation of facilitation’. Members of de:border contributed to a session on ‘Legal and political struggles in court’, with Legal Centre Lesvos, Aegean Migrant Solidarity, and Borderline Europe.
The discussion reflected on the legal and political struggles that take place in court by criminalised persons, their legal advocates, and activist supporters. The session offered various critiques of the ways in which contemporary human rights law-based accountability mechanisms are underpinned by and reproduces colonial and carceral logics and racialising and gendering power structures. By mobilising law to address the violence of borders, we should be mindful of the need to resist the harms (re)produced in/by law and legal systems. This contribution is part of a broader reflection on the violences of the laws of borders and a collaborative (en)visioning of transformative and decolonial migration justice and reparations.