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Book SynopsisInclusive Solidarity and Citizenship along Migratory Routes in Europe and the Americas links non-essentialist concepts of solidarity and citizenship to migration in different empirical contexts. The chapters in this edited volume analyse how civil society initiatives renegotiate societal structures in solidarity with people on the move, noncitizens and racialized individuals, and in doing so advance theorizing and contribute to current debates about citizenship and solidarity.
Focusing on solidarity among members of the so-called majority society' in Europe and the Americas, this book offers a compendium of chapters that analyses particular practices of solidarity both material and symbolic as well as the mindsets, discourses, and broader societal contexts that provide the fundament of these practices. As these empirical cases demonstrate, the main argument of the book is that solidarity is not necessarily based on a pre-established and exclusive community, but that more
Table of Contents
Introduction: inclusive solidarity and citizenship along migratory routes in Europe and the Americas
Helge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken
1. Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movement
Sandro Mezzadra
2. Deployed fears and suspended solidarity along the migratory route in Europe
Margit Feischmidt
3. Volunteering for refugees and the repositioning of state sovereignty and civil society: the case of Greece
Dimitris Parsanoglou
4. Containing mobile citizenship: changing geopolitics and its impact on solidarity activism in Mexico
Tanya Basok and Guillermo Candiz
5. Mobilizing for safe passages and escape aid: challenging the ‘asylum paradox’ between active and activist citizenship, humanitarianism and solidarity
Helge Schwiertz and Helen Schwenken
6. Migrants, activists, and the Mexican State: framing violence, rights, and solidarity along the U.S.-Mexico border
Heidy Sarabia
7. Challenging who counts as a citizen. The infrastructure of solidarity contesting racial profiling in Switzerland
Sarah Schilliger
8. Building the sanctuary city from the ground up: abolitionist solidarity and transformative reform
Fiona Jeffries and Jennifer Ridgley
9. Differential solidarity: protests against deportations as structured contestations over citizenship
Maren Kirchhoff
