The politics of migration has become increasingly polarizing, with a dominant narrative that presents human mobility as a global crisis that should be met with stricter enforcement of border controls, while a human rights approach reveals itself as an insufficient response or possibility. This course examines alternative frameworks and responses that focus on transformative practices and approaches to migration and mobility that challenge the structural conditions and underlying assumptions on which the border regime rests. From sanctuary, to mutual aid, abolition, accompaniment, mobility, and transformative solidarity practices, we will examine how different community organizations, scholars, and activists that center these concepts challenge the foundations of the border and migration policies. We will consider critiques of citizenship, integration and reintegration, humanitarian aid, containment, externalization, and the politics of waiting from perspectives of Anzaldúa’s borderlands, Paik’s abolitionist sanctuary, Bosniak’s “hereness”, Otros Dreams en Acción’s mutual flourishing and translocality, Ticktin’s critique of care and innocence, among other concepts and authors (Walters, Landau, Tazzioli, McNevin, Mountz, Castañeda) as well as poetry, art and film. Students will develop an understanding of research and practice that challenges the migrant-citizen binary and the limits of rights-based frameworks, and presents alternative concepts and practices in response to mobility within and across borders.