Migration manifestos in the 2010s: performing border dissent between social action and utopia

Over the last decade, the restrictions on human movement have inspired the drafting of numerous 'migrant manifestos' in advocacy of people on the move. This article engages with this underexplored corpus investigating its role in reconfiguring solidarity and calling for social action by use of a performative language. Considering the 'Migrant Manifesto' by Immigrant Movement International, the 'Charter of Lampedusa' and 'La Declaration des Poetes' by Patrick Chamoiseau under the lens of performative studies and postcolonial theory, I will examine their implications and limits in relation to the debate on cosmopolitanism, agency and advocacy in the globalised present.