Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations

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 often 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, Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable 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, this book focuses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and illegalized migrants.

Elias Steinhilper ================= Dr. Elias Steinhilper is a political sociologist based at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. Recent publications include: ’Mobilizing in transnational contentious spaces: linking relations, emotions and space in migrant activism’, Social Movement Studies 17(5), 574-591, and ’A contested crisis. Policy narratives and empirical evidence on border deaths in the Mediterranean’, Sociology 52(3), 515-533.