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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Things, Gifts and Solidarity
verfasst von : Vicki Squire
Erschienen in: Post/Humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the US: People, Places, Things
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter reflects on how ‘humanitarian recycling’ can transform relations among people, across places, through things. As an expression of a gift economy, humanitarian recycling does not simply reinforce inequalities but also creates renewed solidarities. Squire argues that the political significance of humanitarian recycling lies in its generative potential and in the way it connects migrants who have crossed the desert with those who have not. The chapter thus argues that humanitarian recycling is an ambiguous intervention, yet effectively constitutes migration as a ‘social movement’ or collective force. Although far from ideal, humanitarian recycling is thus indicative of the existence of an alternative politics of life across the Sonoran borderzone: a politics of mutually supportive life.