Everywhere Border Project
In partnership with iLIT and R3D, the Everywhere Border project documents the expansion and harms of border externalization processes, practices and infrastructures throughout the Americas. The Everywhere Border Network is made up of over 35 actors, including civil society organizations, collectives, activists, journalists, lawyers, cartographers, investigators, and scholars working at the intersection of migration, tech and surveillance.
Our strategic and educational work supports local organizations grappling with overlapping state violence and pernicious tech. The Everywhere Border Project engages in documentation and evidence-gathering, brings cases to regional human rights bodies (including the African and Inter-American Commissions), assists FOIA (freedom of information) requests and litigation, civil society-led research, info sharing and network building. Our work includes producing forensic reports, submitting petitions, amicus briefs and shadow reports, and requesting precautionary measures to protect individuals at imminent risk.
Resisting Securitization and Reimagining Security
This project builds with advocates, human rights defenders, journalists, scholars, and advocates combating how “national security” is partnered with “economic prosperity” in ways that increase policing of migrants, undermine indigenous land rights, and exacerbate economic and climate injustice. Through documentation, technological analysis, and legal and political strategies, we develop campaigns and targeted interventions that scale up the ability of (securitized) communities to resist, reimagine, and renegotiate systems and infrastructures that threaten human rights and democratic futures.
Our work with partners includes sharing their translated work, available in our Resource Library.
Documentation and Storytelling
In addition to legal documentation (see Everywhere Border Project, above), this project engages with directly impacted community members to document and archive to support how we make sense of the present and how we are able to image/shape the future. Choices related to deciding what is worth archiving, and whose stories are allowed to be told, can reproduce a range of injustices. Our work aims to “speak back” to the silences found in “official” archives and mainstream public memory in order to preserve and expand our collective rights and democracy.