Migrant resistance in contemporary Europe

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of images -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Migrant, resistance -- EUrope in question -- Outline of the book -- 1 Resistance as method -- Resistance as catalyst and analytic -- Toward an ethnography of struggle -- Situating migrant resistance: three interventions -- Critical Border Studies -- The Autonomy of Migration -- Critical Citizenship Studies -- 2 Migratory dissent -- Formation -- Two worlds in one? -- Wrong/ing names -- Wrong/ing spaces -- Wrong behaviour -- Two worlds, many worlds -- Dissensual resistance -- 3 Migratory excess -- Greek-EUropean border dilemmas -- The borderscape of Lesvos -- Jawad -- Arash -- Azadi -- The borderscape of Athens -- Research notes, Athens -- Jaser and his family -- The borderscape of Patras -- The (not so) abandoned factory -- Lives of infamous migrants -- An excess of border violence -- Excessive resistance -- 4 Migratory solidarity -- We hope you will arrive -- Boats4People -- Where we might yet be going -- Solidarity in embodied encounters -- The WatchTheMed Alarm Phone -- The Central Mediterranean route, 193 distress cases -- The Eastern Mediterranean route, 1,582 distress cases -- The Western Mediterranean route, 279 distress cases -- Solidarity in unembodied encounters -- Solidarity as resistance -- 5 Diagnostics of EUrope -- Tracing EUrope through resistance -- Transborder EUrope (or, EUrope as migrant) -- Visibilising EUrope in border violence -- Humanitarian EUrope -- Becoming a humanitarian problem -- Post-racial and postcolonial EUrope -- Provincialising EUrope in racialised encounters -- Vocalising EUrope's umbilical connection -- EUrope, a dilemma -- 6 Analytics of power -- Modalities of power -- Biometric beatings -- Resisting what power with what resistance? -- Power of life, power over life -- Racialised power, spatialised power -- Confusing power, creating possibilities -- 7 A speculative blueprint -- Movements of freedom -- Utopian yearning, utopian enactment -- Open borders, no borders -- Lines of flight, lines of fight -- Bibliography -- Index.

Over the past few years, increased 'unauthorised' migrations into the territories of Europe have resulted in one of the most severe crises in the history of the European Union. Stierl explores migration and border struggles in contemporary Europe and the ways in which they animate, problematise, and transform the region and its political formation. This volume follows public protests of migrant activists, less visible attempts of those on the move to 'irregularly' subvert borders, as well as new solidarities and communities that emerge in interwoven struggles for the freedom of movement. Stierl offers a conceptualisation of migrant resistances as forces of animation through which European forms of border governance can be productively explored. As catalysts that set socio-political processes into frictional motion, they are developed as modes of critical investigation, indeed, as method. By ethnographically following and being implicated in different migration struggles that contest the ways in which Europe decides over and enacts who does, and does not, belong, the author probes what they reveal about the condition of Europe in the contemporary moment. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Migration, Border, Security and Citizenship Studies, as well as the Political Sciences more generally.