Migration is theorized as an autonomous social force whose “lines of flight” both exceed and actively reconfigure border regimes, citizenship, and capitalist sociality, while remaining dialectically vulnerable to recuperation through super-exploitation and stratified inclusion. Critiquing “Fortress Europe” and the culturalized integration paradigm, the text tracks how liberal-right discourses appropriate emancipatory languages to police mobility, and calls for post-national, practice-based forms of citizenship and historiography adequate to a non-unifiable, conflictual subject of movement.

Montage-based poetics and archival hauntology are mobilized to expose how postwar border-making, US empire, and neocolonial governance fracture nation, family, and subjectivity into migratory “orphan memories,” where grief becomes both historical method and political resistance. Minor-language practices (Deleuze/Guattari), Glissantian opacity, and anti-assimilationist translation/nontranslation dismantle the “naturally convincing” authority of documentary and official narrative, reconfiguring witness and solidarity across time’s traumatic loops toward the fragile proposition that peace remains thinkable.