These questions rage at the center of the current political crisis of refugees entering Europe from North Africa and the Middle East. What are our common resources and who has access to them? What, or who, can take responsibility for people displaced or fleeing from violence? Are practices of commoning open only to those with citizenship papers? How can we craft commoning practices that ethically consider the precarious lives of the undocumented individual, the refugee, or the asylum seeker? Is it feasible, or even possible, to suggest that “no human being is illegal” – that, as humans, we have a right to be anywhere on the planet? The question of what the commons is goes to the heart of the current refugee crisis.
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