This article takes up Miriam Lang’s call formulated in the issue 3(1) of movements that the anti-racist movement and critical migration research should include the Global South more fully in their thinking. To practice internationalist solidarity, however, there is no need to wander off into the distance. Instead, refugee activism in Germany, with its critique of global inequality and exploitative structures, offers the best starting point. At the same time, ecological movements that are critical of developments and capitalism could also benefit from a commitment to migrant struggles. Refugee activism demands the right not to have to migrate by criticizing global economic relations and referring to the role of political and military relations between the North and the South. To fill gaps in activism and academia and to face contradictions, it is necessary for the (white-)German anti-racist scene and movements such as Degrowth to engage critically with neo-colonialism and imperialism by cooperating with self-organized refugee activism.