ABOLISHING THE POLICE
RESISTING EVERYDAY BORDERING Everyday bordering does not go unchallenged. Various protests have accompanied attempted immigration raids,72 and medical professionals have called for an end to bordering within the NHS.73 Organisations such as Docs Not Cops, Anti Raids Network, Freedom from Torture, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Undoing Borders, and Women for Refugee Women, to name just a few, work to seek justice for irregular migrants and pressure the government and media to shift the damaging anti-migrant discourse that is now orthodoxy in the UK. However, a larger, joined-up movement will be required to resist everyday bordering as it continues to creep into all of our lives. One exemplary template for cross-sectoral resistance may be found in the ‘Patients not Passports’ toolkit developed as a collaboration between three health and migration charities,74 which provides step-by-step guidance for healthcare workers to resist bordering in the NHS, while also advising communities on providing support and solidarity to those affected by the hostile environment. Those who are able to object to their new border duties ought to do so. Happily, many of those who have been asked to take on new border policing roles are those with considerable social power (e.g. landlords, doctors, university staff) and are therefore better positioned to resist. Unhappily, it is often the case that those with social power 50
