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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 often 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,
Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable 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, this book focuses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and illegalized migrants.
List of contents
Introduction, Chapter 1: Theorizing Precarious Migrant Protest, Chapter 2: The Context of Precarious Migrant Protest, Chapter 3: Fragile Alliances - The Bourse du Travail Protests in Paris, Chapter 4: Precarious Resistance - The La Chapelle Protests in Paris, Chapter 5: Contested Spaces - The Oranienplatz Protests in Berlin, Chapter 6: Threatened Lives - Afghan Protests Against Deportations in Berlin, Conclusion, Appendix, Index
About the author
Elias Steinhilper is a political sociologist with a particular interest in migration, political conflict and protest. He obtained a PhD in political science and sociology from Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin.
