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The article explores how categories of deserving and undeserving groups are established in policy designs and how social target groups are constructed according to such distinctions. Institutionalised systems of exclusion and inclusion have a profound impact on citizenship and substantial democracy. Neoliberalist political ideas and attitudes have strengthened the focus on deserving and undeserving groups over the last years and spurred a popular belief that welfare fraud is rampant. This tendency has led to a retrenchment of established rights and increasing use of illiberal means to further punish the undeserving. This article discusses these issues further by looking at the position of lone mothers in Denmark and how they constitute a social target group defined by their class, gender, ethnic, and religious differences. Categories of deservingness are also framed in national narratives and politics of belonging.

Danish integration and immigration policies are among the most restrictive of their kind in Western Europe. More than in many other countries, integration is a highly contested policy domain and a salient policy issue. It is also one of the policy domains most subject to change over the last two decades. This raises the question of what has driven this development. This chapter argues that in Denmark the utilisation of external expert knowledge at the national level has been minimal. The research-policy relationship can perhaps best be considered as a 'pick-and-choose' model where politicians and policymakers have employed the research that supports the hegemonic policy-frame of integration and the dominant definition of problems. Research thereby serves a legitimising function rather than an instrumental one. This characterisation stands in contrast to the importance and emphasis that are usually given to evidence-based policymaking in the country. Subsequently, disenchantment about research-policy dialogues has occurred. While the use of external research arguably has been limited, there has, in contrast, been a proliferation of in-house research institutions within the political system itself, although often with limited budgets.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility -- 1 Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Scale -- 2 Urban Emplacement: The Formation of a Heterogenous 'We' -- 3 Politics of Possibility and the City -- 4 Who Is Right Here, Only Time Will Tell -- References -- Chapter 2 Urban Solidarity: Perspectives of Migration and Refugee Accommodation and Inclusion -- 1 Literature Review -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Findings -- 3.1 Perspectives of Solidarity -- 3.2 Urban Solidarity -- 3.3 Berlin: A Solidarity City for All -- 3.4 Zurich: Migrant and Refugee Inclusion through Urban Citizenship -- 3.5 Freiburg: Contesting Terminologies -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3 On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-scalar Solidarities -- 1 Transversal Solidarity -- 2 Typology of Transversal Solidarities -- 2.1 Autonomous Solidarity -- 2.2 Civic Solidarity -- 2.3 Institutional Solidarity -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity during daca and dapa -- 1 U.S. Labor Unions and Solidarity with Undocumented Immigrants -- 2 Methods and Data -- 2.1 The daca and dapa Programs -- 2.2 Research Sites -- 2.3 Data -- 3 San Francisco Unions: Deep Solidarity with Undocumented Immigrants -- 3.1 Progressive City Government Facilitates Transversal Solidarity -- 3.2 Dense and Mature Infrastructure of Immigrant Organizations Compels Unions to Step Up -- 4 Houston Unions: Limited Solidarity with Undocumented Immigrants -- 4.1 Moderate City Government Complicates Transversal Solidarity.

There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas. It discusses the multiple manifestations of dissent and their contributions to shaping political alternatives; it also takes a closer look at organizations and the challenge they face trying to establish forms of resistance. The struggles of current social movements in Brazil, Turkey, Nigeria, Spain and the US exemplify practices of dissent

The special issue contributes to the exploration of transversal solidarities counterpoised to anexhausted neoliberalism on the one hand and a xenophobic populism on the other. It trackscontours of a multifarious countermovement, traversing 'race', class and gender, driven byreimaginings of the common and the renewal of democracy. The emphasis is on the understandingof contending urban justice movements, welcoming communities and their liaisons in a multiscale(local, national, transnational) perspective. A collection of theoretically informed papers discussescases from urban contexts of Europe and the United States, all riveted by schisms of class, 'race'/ethnicity and gender, occupied by the 'migration' issue and challenged by contending movementsfor social cum environmental sustainability. Exploring examples of social movements and formsof mobilisation in different contexts, the overarching aim is to retrieve options for transversalsolidarities transcending identities while focusing on commonalities.

In Politics of Dissent the framework for analysing politics of dissent is outlined. The outlined framework problematizes the conventional understandings of dissent as something characterising individual historical figures. The chapter provides both a theoretical underpinning of dissent as well as an approach to investigate the current contestations taking place on a global level. Politics of dissent entails the questioning of consensus. It conceptualises dissent as a collective process taking place on everyday level. It conceptualises moments of dissent. Finally it investigates the emergent institutions of dissent. That is the creation of new institutions or the renewal of the existing ones.

Intro -- Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Coercive Geographies: historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement -- 2 Migrants' Entrapment in a 'State of Expectancy': patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece -- 3 Constructing Immobility: border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the Aegean -- 4 "Cyprus Is a Big Prison": reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border Society -- 5 "When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left": infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration Corridors -- 6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural Sector -- 7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: the Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates -- 8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Mediterranean before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957-1967 -- 9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920-1960 -- 10 Life on the Run: coercive Geographies in Denmark-Norway, 1600-1850 -- 11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative Context -- Index.

1. Caring For (Big) Data: An Introduction To Research Methodologies And Ethical Challenges In Digital Migration Studies -- 2. Migrant Digital Space: Building An Incomplete Map To Navigate Public Online Migration -- 3. Contrapuntal Connectedness: Analysing Relations Between Social Media Data And Ethnography In Digital Migration Studies -- 4. Migration Trail: Exploring The Interplay Between Data-Visualisation, Cartography, And Fiction -- 5. Migration Multiple? Big Data, Knowledge Practices And The Governability Of Migration -- 6. The Redundant Researcher: Fieldwork, Solidarity And Migration -- 7. Impossible Research? Ethical Challenges In The (Digital) Study Of Deportable Populations Within The European Border Regime -- 8. Emotional Introspection: The Politics And Challenges Of Contemporary Migration Research -- 9. On Data And Care In Migration Contexts -- 10. Caring As Critical Proximity: A Call For Toolmaking In Digital Migration Studies -- 11. What Should We Do As Intellectual Activists? A Comment On The Ethico-Political In Migration Research.

The project of European integration has undergone a succession of shocks, beginning with the Eurozone crisis, followed by reactions to the sudden growth of irregular migration, and, most recently, the Coronavirus pandemic. These shocks have politicised questions related to the governance of borders and markets that for decades had been beyond the realm of contestation. For some time, these questions have been spilling over into domestic and European electoral politics, with the rise of "populist" and Eurosceptic parties. Increasingly, however, the crises have begun to reshape the liberal narrative that have been central to the European project. This book charts the rise of contestation over the meaning of "Europe", particularly in light of the Coronavirus crisis and Brexit. Drawing together cutting edge, interdisciplinary scholarship from across the continent, it questions not merely the traditional conflict between European and nationalist politics, but the impact of contestation on the assumed "cosmopolitan" values of Europe