MIGRATION, PROTEST MOVEMENTS AND THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE
Migration and cosmopolitanism are said to be complementary. Cosmopolitanism means to be a citizen of the world, and migration, without impediments, should be the natural starting point for a cosmopolitan view. However, the intensification of migration, through an increasing number of refugees and economic migrants, has generated anti-cosmopolitan stances. Using the concept of cosmopolitanism as it emerges from migrant protests like Sans-Papiers, No One Is Illegal, and No Borders, an interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses this discrepancy and explores how migrant protest movements elicit a new form of radical cosmopolitanism.
The combination of basic theoretical concepts and detailed empirical analysis in this book will advance the theoretical debate on the inherent cosmopolitan aspects of migrant activism. As such, it will be a valuable contribution to students, researchers, and scholars of political science, sociology, and philosophy.
Tamara Caraus is a researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. Her area of research includes continental political philosophy and political theory of cosmopolitanism. She has contributed articles to various academic journals and edited volumes, published four books, and co-edited Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Dissent (Routledge, 2014), Cosmopolitanism without Foundations (Zeta Books, 2014), and Re-grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-foundational Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2016), as well as Cosmopolitanism and Global Protests, a special issue of the journal Globalizations (2017).
Elena Paris is a PhD researcher at the Law School, Bucharest University. Her research interests lie in the fields of international legal theory, law and political theology, legal pluralism, continental philosophy. She has most recently written International Law-making and Foundations of Universality: Retrieving an Alternative Metaphysics in International Law and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (M. Koskenniemi, M. Garcia-Salmones, P. Amorosa eds., OUP, 2017); Re-thinking Universalism: Post-foundational Cosmopolitanism in a Relational Key in the volume she co-edited (with Tamara Caraus) Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-foundational Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2016).
This volume brings a much-needed contribution to cosmopolitanism in demonstrating how migrants through protest and resistance are re-drawing the boundaries of political community.
Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Following the thread of migrants movements and struggles this book gives a refreshing, radical, and new meaning to the notion of cosmopolitanism. While fences and walls proliferate around borders as well as within bounded spaces worldwide, the stubborn search for freedom of migrants invites us to politically reinvent and remake the world. This is a timely and inspiring book in hard times.
Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory,
University of Bologna, Italy
MIGRATION, PROTEST MOVEMENTS AND THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE
A Radical Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
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CONTENTS
PART I
Cosmopolitical Resistance
Frdric Mgret
Kostas Koukouzelis
Tamara Caraus
Dragos Ciulinaru
PART II
Cosmopolitical Agency
Ali Emre Benli
scar Garca Agustn and Martin Bak Jrgensen
Camil-Alexandru Prvu
PART III
Cosmopolitical World-Building
Alex Sager
Niklas Plaetzer
Serene Richards
Elena Paris
Ali Emre Benli holds a PhD in Political Theory from LUISS University Rome (2016), and is currently a Fellow of the Global Policy Institute, Durham University. His research interests include theories of migration and citizenship, global and domestic distributive justice, and methodologies of contemporary theorizing of justice. He has edited, with Daniele Archibugi, the volume Claiming Rights in Europe: A European Citizenship in Practice (Routledge, 2018).
Tamara Caraus is a researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. Her area of research includes continental political philosophy and political theory of cosmopolitanism. She has contributed articles to various academic journals and edited volumes, published four books, and co-edited Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Dissent (Routledge, 2014), Cosmopolitanism without Foundations (Zeta Books, 2014), and Re-grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-foundational Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2015), as well as Cosmopolitanism and Global Protests, a special issue of the journal Globalizations (2017).
Dragos Ciulinaru is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University. He holds a masters degree in Social Science from the University of Helsinki and a bachelors in law. His contribution to this volume is connected to a wider research, which he started at the University of Bucharest and that focusses on the enforcement of human rights law in the case of migrants. Dragos has conducted fieldwork on Roma eviction and deportation in Sweden, Italy, and France. He has been published by the Journal of International Migration and Integration and by the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
Martin Bak Jrgensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. His main research areas include migration and integration policies, social movements, activism and civil society, precarity and new forms of politics, and neo-Marxist theory. He has co-edited, with Carl-Ulrik Schierup, the volume