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Record Nr.

UNISA996411336003316

Autore

Steinhilper Elias

Titolo

Migrant protest : interactive dynamics in precarious mobilizations / / Elias Steinhilper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9789048550197

904855019X

978946372222 3

946372222X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

Protest and Social Movements ; ; 22

Disciplina

303.484

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Political aspects - History - 21st century

Immigrants - Political activity

Protest movements - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to 'weak interests' and a particularly disadvantageous position of 'outsiders' to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, this book explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavourable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations, and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of 'migrant', the book focusses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and 'illegalized' migrants.