In dominant discourses, migrants are mostly perceived as either victims or villains but rarely
as political subjects and democratic constituents. Challenging this view, the aim of the article …

This article tests the hypothesis that the attitude towards migration can be understood as a
social seismograph for the degree of a society's degree of democratisation. In this article I …

In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the
notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and–as we argue in this book–its …

This chapter aims to explore from a theoretical point of view the potential for social
transformation entailed by migrant struggles directed against neoliberal migration …

This paper focuses on the 300 Migrant Hunger Strikers event in Greece to explore the
material conditions of possibility for migrant politics in times of crisis. It identifies three …

This essay represents an effort to rethink the relationship between political emergence and
migrant agency. This undertaking has a theoretical motivation. Mainstream human and …

In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the
notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and-as this book argues-its practice …

Recent mobilities towards Europe have been framed through a discourse of crisis. This
discourse presents migratory movements as illegitimate and exceptional, and calls for the …

This paper offers a snapshot of the potential contributions that Decolonial Social Movements
have to the democratisation of democracy and to the humanisation of human rights. It …

Irregular migration is an important issue in contemporary societies. This article explores the
changing position of irregular migrants from two angles. First, we analyse the impact of …