Immigrant Protest : Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent /

The last decade has witnessed a global explosion of immigrant protests, political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists. This volume considers the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of citizenship and borders. Scholars, visual and performance artists,...

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Main Authors: Tyler, Imogen (Author, Editor), Marciniak, Katarzyna, 1963- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : immigrant protest : noborder scholarship / Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler
  • Dare to wear a mosque! : immigrant protest as cross-cultural pedagogy / Azra Akamija
  • The political aesthetics of immigrant protest / Rozalinda Borcila with Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler
  • Becoming British : exploring citizenship through arts practice / Lena Simic with Imogen Tyler
  • Border disorder / Alex Rivera with Katarzyna Marciniak
  • Loving the alien : indigenous protest and neo-colonial violence in James Cameron's Avatar / Bruce Bennett
  • Pedagogy of rage / Katarzyna Marciniak
  • On Israel/Palestine and the politics of visibility / Simon Faulkner
  • Everyday acts of resistance : the precarious lives of asylum seekers in Glasgow / Teresa Piacentini
  • Pushing the boundaries : everyday resistance in Swedish clandestinity / Maja Sager
  • Subjects that matter? : non-identitarian strategies of pro-"migrant" and "migrant" protest in Germany / Petra Rostock
  • Gender and the politics of anti-racist and immigrant protest in Greece / Alexandra Zavos
  • Migrant protest and the courts of women / Marguerite Waller
  • Migrant resistance and the Anti-raid Campaign in London 2012 / Anti-raid Campaign Coalition
  • Afterword : the human waste disposal industry or immigrant protest in neoliberal times / Imogen Tyler and Katarzyna Marciniak.