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Introduction : migrant protests as radical cosmopolitics / Tamara Caraus -- Migrant protests as a form of civil disobedience : which cosmopolitanism? / Frédéric Mégret -- Migrants' protests, the paradox of citizenship and contestatory cosmopolitanism / Kostas Koukouzelis -- Cosmopolitan "hidden transcripts"? : becoming in/visible as a strategy of migrant resistance / Tamara Caraus -- Roma mobility in the EU : cosmopolitanism from below or the cosmopolitan exception? / Dragos Ciulinaru -- March of refugees, cosmopolitanism and avant-garde political agency / Ali Emre Benli -- Transnational solidarity and cosmopolitanism from below : migrant protests, universalism and the political community / Oscar García Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen -- Solidarity before citizenship : cosmopolitanism and migrant protests / Camil-Alexandru Pârvu -- Reclaiming cosmopolitanism through migrant protests / Alex Sager -- Fugitive world-building : rethinking the cosmopolitics of anti-slavery struggle with Arendt and Glissant / Niklas Plaetzer -- Life, divided : on the experience of postcolonial migrant protests in France / Serene Richards -- "No one is illegal" : law and the possibilities for radical cosmopolitics / Elena Paris

Migration and cosmopolitanism are said to be complementary. Cosmopolitanism means to be a citizen of the world, and migration, without impediments, should be the natural starting point for a cosmopolitan view. However, the intensification of migration, through an increasing number of refugees and economic migrants, has generated anti-cosmopolitan stances. Using the concept of cosmopolitanism as it emerges from migrant protests like Sans Papiers, No One Is Illegal, and No Borders, an interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses this discrepancy and explores how migrant protest movements elicit a new form of radical cosmopolitanism.The combination of basic theoretical concepts and detailed empirical analysis in this book will advance the theoretical debate on the inherent cosmopolitan aspects of migrant activism. As such, it will be a valuable contribution to students, researchers and scholars of political science, sociology and philosophy.