Migrant protest : interactive dynamics in precarious mobilizations / Elias Steinhilper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhilper, Elias, author.

Series:

Protest and social movements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Political activity.

Immigrants.

Protest movements--History--21st century.

Protest movements.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects--History--21st century.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to 'weak interests' and a particularly disadvantageous position of 'outsiders' to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, this book explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavourable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations, and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of 'migrant', the book focusses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and 'illegalized' migrants.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Borders and Protest in an "Age of Migration"

A Fragmented Academic Landscape

Research Approach

Ethics of an Engaged Social Science

Outline of the Book

1. Theorizing Migrant Protest A Microinteractionist and Spatial Perspective

Microinteractive Dynamics in Precarious Migrant Protest

Ambivalent Spatialities of Precarious Mobilizations

Conclusion

2. Contentious Migration in Context Law, Discourse and Mobilization in Germany and France

The Politicization of Precarious Migration

Regulatory Contexts of Asylum and Undocumented Migration

Mobilizations for and by Precarious Migrants

3. Fragile Alliances The Bourse du Travail Protests, Paris, 2008-2010

Protest Emergence: An Ally Turns Opponent

Protest Incubation: Interactive Dynamics at the Bourse du Travail

Interactive Dynamics at Rue Baudelique

Dynamics of Fragmentation: Niches of Regularization

4. Precarious Resistance The La Chapelle Protests, Paris, 2015-2016

Protest Emergence: Politicization of a Humanitarian Crisis

Makeshift Camps as Spaces of Survival and Precarious Resistance

A Migrant Squat as a Space of Incubation and Alienation

Fading Contention: Internal Division and the Humanitarian Governance

5. Contested Spaces The Oranienplatz Protests, Berlin, 2012-2014

Resisting Spatial Exclusion: Protest Emergence in Wurzburg

Centralizing Dissent: The Protest March to Berlin

OPlatz as a Space of Protest Incubation

OPlatz as a Space of Protest Fragmentation

6. Threatened Lives Afghan Protests against Deportations, Berlin, 2016-2017

Politicizing Differentiated Treatment

Protest Emergence: A Mobilized Diaspora

Protest Incubation: From "Silence" to "Voice"

Dynamics of Demobilization

Contentious Arenas and Contested Spaces

Contentious Interactions and Fragile Alliances

Precarious Lives and Resistances

Epilogue: Precarious Migration as a Form of Life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Steinhilper, Elias. Migrant protest.

ISBN:

946372222X

9789463722223

OCLC:

1182837336