Nail, Thomas2023-07-242023-07-242020Nail, T. (2020). Borders, Migrants, and Writing. Konturen, 11, 152–173. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.11.0.4831https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2856822 pagesWe tend to think of migrants as moving between states and borders as fortifications of states. I would like to prove the reverse: that migrants produce and reproduce the state in the first place. I think we have got this story backward, and I think a very different politics would arise by getting this the right way round. I would like to try and rethink political philosophy starting from the figure of the migrant.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-UShuman mobilityphilosophy of movementkineticsArticlehttps://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.11.0.4831