Imogen Tyler - Protesting Citizenship: Migrant Activisms

What does it mean to state No One is Illegal? This rallying call is what unifies migrant protests against exclusionary border regimes around the world, bringing migrants, citizens, legal and illegal people onto the streets in ever greater numbers. Indeed, the last decade has witnessed an explosion of immigrant protests, political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists. This edited collection aims to contribute to the growing body of scholarship on migrant resistance movements and to consider the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of citizenship and borders. It offers a rich series of theoretical and political interventions which together explore the tensions between integrationist and autonomous approaches, and between migrant and activist strategies of invisibility and visibility. By bringing immigrant protests to the heart of debates about citizenship, it also extends discussions about the limits and the possibilities of citizenship as the material and conceptual horizon of critical social analysis, political participation and democracy today.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Imogen Tyler is a Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She has a longstanding interest in activism, protest and resistance and is the author of the monograph Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2012).

Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies in the English Department at Ohio University, USA. Katarzyna specializes in the discourses of immigration and foreignness, and is one of the initiators of transnational feminist media studies. She is the author of Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference (2006), coauthor of Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland (2010), and co-editor of Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (2007).

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Imogen Tyler and Katarzyna Marciniak

Joe Rigby and Raphael Schlembach

Julie Rebouillat

Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis S. Tsianos

Ishan Ashutosh

Imogen Tyler

Heide Castaeda

Deirdre Conlon and Nick Gill

Katarzyna Marciniak

Cynthia Weber

Ishan Ashutosh, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Heide Castaeda, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.

Deirdre Conlon, Department of Sociology and Urban Studies, Saint Peters University, Jersey City, USA.

Nick Gill, Department of Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

Katarzyna Marciniak, Department of English, University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, USA.

Dimitris Papadopoulos, School of Management, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Julie Rebouillat, Freelance Photographer, Contre-Faits, Marseille, France.

Joe Rigby, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

Raphael Schlembach, School of Education and Social Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Vassilis S. Tsianos, Department of Sociology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Imogen Tyler, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

Cynthia Weber, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Imogen Tylera and Katarzyna Marciniakb

aDepartment of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK; bDepartment of English, University of Ohio, Athens, OH 45701, USA