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- Discusses the advantages and limits of varying strategies of solidarity and activism
- Weaves together archival and analytical work with an auto-ethnographic account of the author’s own solidarity work
- Explores not only solidarity networks and solidarity activism, but also the self-mobilisation of refugees
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Illustrating new resistance strategies and mobilisations, this volume examines how EU citizens and refugee populations in Germany have opposed asylum policies and coped with hostile migration regimes. Taking as her starting point occupations of a Berlin square in 2012, the author weaves an auto-ethnographic account of her own involvement in solidarity and refugee resistance groups with archival examinations of various strategies. The book analyzes how activism is sustained in multiple ways: media solidarity groups challenge mainstream depictions; radio shows attempt to decolonize the media and resist the category of ‘refugee’; a group of women comprised of migrants and asylum-seekers publish their accounts; solidarity groups help migrants to find temporary housing; campaigns align with existing groups or engage with political conversations more broadly to challenge populism, racism, and anti-migrant sentiment. As she bridges practical solidarity, media activism, and other strategies, Fazila Bhimji builds a framework to show how these tactics interrelate, interrogating specifically if the fragmentation of strategies limits anti-racist struggles, or whether providing manifold outlets for a collective struggle helps to build solidarity.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Film, Media and Popular Culture, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Fazila Bhimji
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Border Regimes, Racialisation Processes and Resistance in Germany
Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Study of Protest and Solidarity
Authors: Fazila Bhimji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49320-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49319-6Published: 31 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49322-6Published: 01 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49320-2Published: 30 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Political Sociology, Ethnography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Racism