The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements

Ilker Ataç is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, and editor of the journal Movements. His research interests are in the area of citizenship studies and migration policies, irregular migration and social movement studies. His work has appeared in the journals Citizenship Studies, Austrian Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere. He is currently working on social membership of non-deported persons.

This collection brings together articles that explore political mobilizations in several countries and (border) regions, including Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Austria, Germany, Greece and Turkey and 'the Mediterranean'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

1. Introduction: the contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins Ilker Ataç, Kim Rygiel and Maurice Stierl 2. Dying to live: migrant deaths and citizenship politics along European borders: transgressions, disruptions, and mobilizations Kim Rygiel 3. A sea of struggle - activist border interventions in the Mediterranean Sea Maurice Stierl 4. 'Nacimos de la nada': border struggles and maternal politics in Mexico Stefanie Kron 5. The tactical politics of 'humanitarian' immigration: negotiating stasis, enacting mobility Carolina Moulin and Diana Thomaz 6. Transformations of the undocumented youth movement and radical egalitarian citizenship Helge Schwiertz 7. 'Refugee Protest Camp Vienna': making citizens through locations of the protest movement Ilker Ataç 8. Displacement of European citizen Roma in Berlin: acts of citizenship and sites of contentious politics Ay¿e Çälar 9. Notes from a refugee protest: ambivalences of resisting and desiring citizenship Asli Ikizoglu Erensu