regime of 'gendered detention management', even in the most dramatic moments experienced by the migrants in their tortuous journey across Europe. Although the women's refusal to be transferred to the more 'humane camp' is a sharp voice against this regime of selection, the activists in Lesvos seem to be trapped between the blurred boundaries of a political and a humanitarian intervention. They seem to oscillate between the concrete possibility to free and provide them with greater mobility and a better environment, and the recognition of the shortcomings of a politics of 'gentler detention' reserved for a certain group of detainees. However, aware of the contradictions of the 'humanitarian approach' to detention, the protesters some of the detainees eventually asserted their condemnation of any form of detention for undocumented migrants. Many also recognize that short-term interventions, aimed at improving the conditions of detention in situations of emergency, make concrete difference to people's life. For instance the open reception facility set up by the authority under the pressure from the camp and the issuing of papers for twenty-two migrants without them being detained (an important precedent with regard to the practices of detention in can Greece), are considered positive developments and concrete translations of the general demand for 'freedom of movement', 'acts of practical solidarity' to the migrants. Furthermore, the official denunciation by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of the outrageous conditions of Pagani and its appeal to close the detention centre may have positively contributed to foster international attention (http://lesvos09.antira.info/2009/ 08/no-detention/#more-734). Those short-term achievements seemed to have stimulated the recent actions taken by migrants in Lesvos and their ongoing struggles for their freedom of movement: 28 September 2009 Hungerstrikes and protest in Pagani lead to the re-opening of the PIPKA centre.... Revolt at Pagani. We just heard that people imprisoned in Pagani have taken direct action. The three cells at the ground level are open, imprisoned migrants have flocked to the yard of the prison, shouting lAzadi, Azadi' (freedom). Also, women detained on the firstfloor are leaving their cells. Inside the cells, mattresses have been burnt,and the bars fromsome cell windows have been removed. More and more people fromMytileneare coming to Pagani... (http://lesvos09.antira.info/). Although it may remain difficult to detect the differenteffects of long-term and short-term interventions, the move beyond humanitarian and emergency action may lie in the spaces of relationality and encounters between migrants and European activists during the days of the camp. The question remains how the temporary space of a No Border camp can support and energize the everyday forms of resistance of women and men in their struggles of migration and foster social transformations. 144 feminist review 94 2010 acrosstheborders of Lesvos This content downloaded from 163.1.255.60 on Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:57:53 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions