Description
Book SynopsisEdited collection on migration and civil society
Trade Review'Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this volume helps addressing fundamental questions about the creation of spaces of resistance by building upon Antonio Gramsci's reflections on the Southern question' -- Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
'This book's Gramscian perspective provides a welcome corrective to nationalist migration scholarship that naturalises borders and a migrant/native divide' -- Nina Glick Schiller, Emeritus Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances - Óscar Garcia Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
Part I: The Heterogeneity of Political Actors
2. Gramsci’s 'Philosophy of Praxis' and the Topic of Migration - Ursula Apitzsch
3: Countering Hegemony through a Park - Nazl enses and K vanç Özcan
4. Gramsci in Slices: Race, Colonialism, Migration and the Postcolonial Gramsci - Miguel Mellino
Part II: Solidarity and Alliances
5. Political and Social Alliances: Gramsci and Today - Derek Boothman
6. Gramsci, Migrants and Trade Unions: An Irish Case Study - Mary Hyland and Ronald Munck
7. The Southern Question and the Irish Question: A Social Movement Perspective - Laurence Cox
Part III: Avoiding Misplaced Alliances
8. Hegemony, Migration and Misplaced Alliances: Lessons from Gramsci - Peter Mayo
9. For the Sake of Workers but Not Immigrants Workers? Social Dumping and Free Movement - Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
Part IV: Spaces of Resistance
10. Politicising the Crisis: The Southern Question, Uneven Geographies and the Construction of Solidarity - David Featherstone
11. Contesting Urban Management Regimes: The Rise of Urban Justice Movements in Sweden - Lisa Kings, Aleksandra Ålund and Nazem Tahvilzadeh
12. Spaces of Resistance and Re-Actuality of Gramsci in Refugees’ Struggles for Rights? The ‘Lampedusa In Hamburg’ between Exit and Voice - Susi Meret and Elisabetta Della Corte
Conclusion
13. Against Pessimism: A Time and Space for Solidarity - Óscar Garcia Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
Contributors
Index
