Introduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the Americas

Schwiertz, Helge; Schwenken, Helen

doi:10.1080/13621025.2020.1755155

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“…First, our findings resonate with a broader trend documenting the accentuation of an 'integrationdemarcation' cleavage in Europe (Hutter, 2014) and the increasing polarization of societies. Our article mirrors these trends in the protest arena with a proliferation of social movements aiming at 'inclusive' and transnational visions of solidarity (Schwenken and Schwiertz, 2020) on the one hand, and anti-Corona protests with a national identification and limited and exclusive visions of solidarity on the other. We expect that the restructuring of the protest landscape and the emergence of new actors will have consequences for contentious politics in European society beyond the time of an acute pandemic.…”

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confidence: 85%

Pro-migrant protest in times of COVID-19: intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

Zajak

Stjepandić²,

Steinhilper

2020

European Societies

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Public policies implemented to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections created unprecedented challenges for social movements. Most striking was the de facto temporary suspension of the right to assembly. Using the case of pro-migrant mobilizations in Germany as an example, we analyse how social movements are affected by and respond to this exceptional context. Instead of a breakdown, we find evidence for a proliferation of mobilization. This is surprising since COVID-19 related restraints were particularly accentuated for pro-migrant mobilizations. We argue that this puzzle can be explained by looking at the particular framing strategies and the hybrid online and offline protest practices used by activists. Integrating empirical insights of social movements in times of crisis, theoretical approaches to boundary spanning, intersectional frame bridging, and hybrid combinations of online and offline protest, our article provides an analysis of pro-migrant mobilizations in times of pandemic. It also sketches-out avenues for future research on plural alliance formation in diverse societies.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Pro-migrant protest in times of COVID-19: intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

Zajak

Stjepandić²,

Steinhilper

2020

European Societies

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“…This section of the paper focuses, in particular, on the online participatory mapping projects that have mushroomed in several countries (e.g., the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and countries in Latin America) during the pandemic as a form of transversal cartographic solidarity that was -and continues to be -geared towards aiding vulnerable people. The section begins with a short reflection on the idea of 'transversal solidarity' (Schwiertz and Schwenken 2020) and then discusses its materialisation amid a flourishing 'mapactivist' culture (Lo Presti 2019); finally, it briefly explores the author's encounter with a cartographic platform of mutual aid called Frena La Curva, which began operating in Spain during that country's lockdown.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions

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This paper is a response to the pervasive spread of both cartographic materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic and critical commentaries about such materials. Written by four Italian map-scholars with different theoretical backgrounds but similar socio-cultural and emotional concerns, this paper emerged spontaneously, following the impulse to grasp the rapid movement of coronavirus cartographies, particularly online. Through conversations carried out during the lockdown, the authors collaboratively observed how both scientific and governmental, as well as existential and affective features of the pandemic have been informed by cartographic imaginings. This plurality of cartographic visuals and mapping practices, which appeared soon after the coronavirus outbreak, requires exponential research angles. Approaching the pandemic through and in the proximity of maps, mapping practices, map-like objects and creative cartographies, this paper aims to foreground the speculative, empirical and fast-moving expressions of the pandemic's cartographic imagery.

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“…Particularly within the current political climate in EUrope and elsewhere, as national governments pursue more restrictive immigration and refugee policies (Schwiertz and Schwenken, 2020), cities have become important strategic sites for circumventing or contesting restrictive border policies. The turn towards the city level of governance in order to circumvent more restrictive federal or national border policies can be seen in social movements forming around sanctuary and solidarity cities (Darling and Bauder, 2020a; Kron and Lebuhn, 2020).…”

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Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home

2021

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Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers in Copenhagen; Queer Base, an activist organisation in Vienna providing support for LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) migrants; and finally, the Palermo Charter Process, a coalition of diverse groups seeking to create open harbours and ‘corridors of solidarity’, from the Mediterranean to cities throughout EUrope. While these examples are situated in and across different urban spaces, they share a common grounding in building solidarity through spaces of encounters related to ideas of home, community, and harbour. By exploring these distinct solidarity initiatives in tandem, we examine, on the one hand, how the production of spaces of encounters is linked to building transversal solidarities and, on the other, how transversal solidarities also connect different spaces of solidarity across different political scales.

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Introduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the Americas

Cited by 60 publications

References 54 publications

Pro-migrant protest in times of COVID-19: intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

Pro-migrant protest in times of COVID-19: intersectional boundary spanning and hybrid protest practices

Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions

Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home

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