Radical imagination on migration in a turbulent era / edited by Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen (Department of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University, Denmark).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Agustín, Óscar, editor.

Jørgensen, Martin Bak, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

In a turbulent era series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This timely book explores the role of social imagination in challenging the dominant narratives on migration. In light of contemporary global crises, it highlights alternatives to current approaches, promoting more just and humane migration futures. Drawing on diverse case studies of migrant- and civil society-led innovations, contributing authors examine how radical imagination emerges in reaction to restrictive and exclusionary migration policies. The book evaluates interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks, investigating the field through discursive, organizational and spatial dimensions. It engages with activism, policy critique and cultural production to reveal the transformative potential of alternative imaginaries in shaping public discourse as well as social and institutional change. Radical Imagination on Migration in a Turbulent Era is essential reading for academics and students of migration studies, geography, political science and sociology. It will also appeal to policymakers and practitioners seeking fresh perspectives on mobility, borders and belonging in an increasingly uncertain world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: List of contributors

1. Introduction to radical imagination on migration in a turbulent era / Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen

Part I: The discursive dimension

2. Framing cosmopolitanism: A social imaginary for an intersectional political community / Óscar García Agustín

3. Democracy in flames: Migrations and Amazonian rainforest / Giuseppe Cocco

4. "I still can't believe this place exists": Activism and hostility in a deportation camp / Paola Buconjic

5. Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: Positioning civil society / Carl-Ulrik Schierup

Part II: The organisational dimension

6. Manteros' voice and political imagination (or how fiction sustains anti-racist politics) / Laura Menna

7. Fellow minorities? Left-wing nationalism, refugee activism, and a detention camp in Wales / Franz Bernhardt

8. Shaping power dynamics and social imaginaries in volunteer efforts with Ukrainian refugees / Ana María Macías García

Part III: The spatial dimension

9. Place-making through radical imaginaries / Martin Bak Jørgensen

10. Radical imaginaries of home and care through refugee solidarity squatting / Matina Kapsali

11. Corridors of care: Transnational solidarity and radical hospitality in Ukraine and Poland / Tomislav Pusić

12. Reimagining the global landscape: Radical imagination in times of crisis; solidarity cities into perspective / Mashudu Salifu

Afterword on utopia and radical imaginaries / Harald Bauder.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035336883 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.