Reimagining transnational mobility regulations: An anti-imperialist and utopian reading of the Model International Mobility Convention
本文通过乌托邦视角分析《国际流动示范公约》，揭示其如何既开放又限制后主权流动治理的可能性，并强调融入反殖民与反帝国主义视角对实现变革潜力的必要性。
In this article I rethink international migration law by analysing the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) through a concrete-utopian lens. Starting from the premise that coloniality remains an active structure of the global order, I show how progressive legal projects often reproduce the hierarchies they seek to overcome. Combining Gary Wilder’s concrete utopianism with Ruth Levitas’s utopia as method, I examine how MIMC’s provisions on residency, differentiated rights and representation both open and limit possibilities for post-sovereign mobility governance. I argue that the Model’s transformative potential depends on integrating decolonial and explicitly anti-imperialist perspectives that centre migrant experience and confront the material and historical inequalities structuring the contemporary border order. By situating mobility regulation within debates on labour precarity, the article highlights implications for collective organisation and transnational labour rights.