Overview
- This open access book provide an analysis of solidarity protest, refugee activism and restrictive protest
- Providing comparative insights into pro- and anti-migration protest across and within three countries
- Investigating relations between refugees and citizens
- Shedding light on emergence, dynamics, and effects of protest with longitudinal data and case study perspectives
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Solidarity Protests Against Deportations
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Restrictive Protest Against Asylum Seekers
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Conclusion
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About this book
This open access book deals with contestations “from below” of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee activism campaigning for residence rights and inclusion, and restrictive protests against the reception of asylum seekers. By applying both a longitudinal analysis of protest events and a series of in-depth case studies in three immigration countries, this edited volume provides comparative insights into these three types of movement in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland over a time span of twenty-five years. Embedded in concepts of political change, limited state sovereignty, and migration control, the findings shed light on actors, repertoires, and the effects of protest activities. The contributions illustrate how local contexts, national political settings, issue specifics, and social ties lead to distinctly differentforms of protest emergence, dynamics, and strategies. Additionally, they give a profound understanding of the mechanisms and constellations that contribute to protest success, both in terms of preventing deportations of individuals as well as changing policies. In sum, this book constitutes a major contribution to empirically informed theoretical reflections on collective contestation in the fields of refugee studies and social protest movements.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Verena Stern is a doctoral researcher at PRIF and is working towards a doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She was previously a BMWFW Doctoral Research Fellow at the Austrian Centers in Edmonton, Canada and Minneapolis, USA. She studied Political Science at the University of Vienna, where she was a researcher on the project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” and has worked as a lecturer. Her research interests include protest and social movements, migration, political sociology, and political theory.
Nina Merhaut worked as a researcher on the project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” at the University of Vienna. She studied Political Science and International Development at the University of Vienna and theUniversity of Buenos Aires. Her research interests include migration and asylum, protest and social movements, and the welfare state.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation
Editors: Sieglinde Rosenberger, Verena Stern, Nina Merhaut
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74696-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74695-1Published: 27 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09057-9Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74696-8Published: 18 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 294
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Political Science