1st Edition

Inclusive Solidarity and Citizenship along Migratory Routes in Europe and the Americas

Edited By Helge Schwiertz, Helen Schwenken Copyright 2022
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Inclusive Solidarity and Citizenship along Migratory Routes in Europe and the Americas links non-essentialist concepts of solidarity and citizenship to migration in different empirical contexts. The chapters in this edited volume analyse how civil society initiatives renegotiate societal structures in solidarity with people on the move, noncitizens and racialized individuals, and in doing so... Read more

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

Helge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken

1. Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movement

Sandro Mezzadra

2. Deployed fears and suspended solidarity along the migratory route in Europe

Margit Feischmidt

3. Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society: the case of Greece

Dimitris Parsanoglou

4. Containing mobile citizenship: changing geopolitics and its impact on solidarity activism in Mexico

Tanya Basok and Guillermo Candiz

5. Mobilizing for safe passages and escape aid: challenging the ‘asylum paradox’ between active and activist citizenship, humanitarianism and solidarity

Helge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken

6. Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border

Heidy Sarabia

7. Challenging who counts as a citizen. The infrastructure of solidarity contesting racial profiling in Switzerland

Sarah Schilliger

8. Building the sanctuary city from the ground up: abolitionist solidarity and transformative reform

Fiona Jeffries and Jennifer Ridgley

9. Differential solidarity: protests against deportations as structured contestations over citizenship

Maren Kirchhoff

Biography

Helge Schwiertz is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Hamburg in Germany. His research interests include social and political theory, migration studies, racism, (pro-)migrant organizing, citizenship, solidarity, and radical democracy.

Helen Schwenken is Professor of Migration and Society and Director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück in Germany. Her research interests include gender and migration, social movement studies, and labour migration.