Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins

Ataç, İlker; Rygiel, Kim; Stierl, Maurice

doi:10.1080/13621025.2016.1182681

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“…In contrast to often more substantial nationality-based privileges, human rights guarantee only the most basic standards and only can provide a starting point for dismantling the structural inequalities of nationality-based citizenship. Critical border studies thus refer to solidarity among mobile/global commons as opposed to state subjects (Anderson, Sharma, and Wright 2012;Ataç, Rygiel, and Stierl 2016). Against this background, my analysis traces whether and how the CPB's activity-based artwork problematizes the border as a site of citizenship, for example, if the performance contests modalities of border control and enforcement, or also the structural inequality upheld through their legal and discursive production.…”

Section: Reconfiguring Citizenship Through Actsmentioning

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“…Scholarly works in critical citizenship and border studies have examined claims articulated by refugees or illegalized travellers (Andrijasevic and Anderson 2009;Weber and Pickering 2011;Nyers and Rygiel 2012;McNevin 2013), refugee 'supporters' or 'humanitarian activists' (Malkki 2015;Hauschild 2016), and joint forms of collective activism (Nyers 2003;Rygiel 2014Rygiel , 2016Ataç et al 2015;Ataç, Rygiel, and Stierl 2016;Stierl 2016). Several studies have explicitly focused on arts practices as a tool of mobilization in this area (Amoore and Hall 2010;McNevin 2010;Squire 2014;Hauschild 2016;Stierl 2016), and applied Rancière's writings to migration studies (Nyers 2003;Edkins 2011Edkins , 2015Wilcke and Lambert 2015;Stierl 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘The dead are coming’: acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders

Lewicki

2016

Citizenship Studies

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘The dead are coming’: acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders

Lewicki

2016

Citizenship Studies

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“…Only private citizens went there voluntarily to welcome refugees. Citizens are often the first to mobilise in crisis situations (Ataç, Rygiel & Stierl, 2016;Hein & Niazi, 2016). When the two lifeguard volunteers arrived and observed the situation with their own eyes, they were shocked.…”

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How Solidarity Influences Political Actors to Manage the Refugee Crisis: the Case of Proactiva Open Arms

Álvarez-Jiménez

Cuxart

2017

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Europe is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, and the Mare Nostrum has become the path that millions of people are using to flee from the armed conflict, especially since the Syrian war began in March 2011. In this sense, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 1,014,973 people arrived to Greece, Italy and Spain by sea in 2015. Nevertheless, the Mediterranean area has become the scene of not only a humanitarian crisis but also citizens’ solidarity. In this sense, Proactiva Open Arms, an NGO mostly formed by lifeguards, has helped 135,000 people to reach the coast safely, 10,273 of whom sailed in wandering boats. Of these individuals, 475 fell into the water and 9,067 were trapped on the cliffs. Proactiva Open Arms’ work has driven European and Greek authorities to respond to refugees. In this paper, we analyse through this case how solidarity among civil citizens can change political actions and encourage other citizens to act in solidarity, as part of the H2020 European funded research project SOLIDUS.

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“…The year 2012 marked the beginning of a new cycle of protest around refugee and migration topics, in which refugees themselves visibly protested (Ataç et al, 2016). The Voice, a self-organized refugee group founded in the 1990s, put the slogan "We are here because you destroy our countries" on the left-wing agenda (Jakob, 2016, pp.…”

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“…Research studying refugee protest combines migration research with social movement studies, focusing on protest repertoire and political strategy (e.g., Ataç, Rygiel, & Stierl, 2016;Klotz, 2016;Tyler & Marciniak, 2013). The literature regarding internal, relational processes in the movement has been growing (e.g., Blumberg & Rechitsky, 2015;English, 2017;King, 2016;Millner, 2011;Rigby & Schlembach, 2013).…”

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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals

Gauditz

2017

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Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of migration, but who share decolonial, anti-capitalist ideals that criticize the nation-state. Noborder activists embrace prefigurative strategies, which means enacting political ideals in their everyday life. This is why this article asks: How do noborder activists try to meet their political ideals in their everyday practices, and what effects do these intentions entail? Noborder practices take place at the intersection of self-organization as a reference to migrants' legal status or identity, on the one hand, and self-organization as anti-hierarchical forms of anarchist-autonomous organization, on the other. On the basis of empirical findings of a multi-sited ethnography in Germany and Greece, this article conceptualizes that noborder creates a unique space for activists to meet in which people try to work productively through conflicts they see as being produced by a global system of inequalities. This demanding endeavor involves social pressure to self-reflect and to transform interpersonal relationships. Broader society could learn from such experiences to build more inclusive, heterogeneous communities.

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Introduction: The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements: Remaking Citizenship from the Margins

Cited by 230 publications

References 52 publications

‘The dead are coming’: acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders

‘The dead are coming’: acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders

How Solidarity Influences Political Actors to Manage the Refugee Crisis: the Case of Proactiva Open Arms

The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals

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