Resisting Citizenship: Migrant Housing Squats Against State Enclosures

Migrants' squats are vital parts of the "corridors of solidarity" across Europe, where grassroots social movements and migrants unite to create non-institutional responses to border regimes' violence. This book explores migrants' self-organised housing strategies and collective squatting of buildings and land, challenging racist and xenophobic regimes and disrupting host-guest relations. These spaces enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against, and within citizenship, producing ungovernable resources, alliances, and subjectivities that prefigure more livable spaces for all.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Migrants' squats play a vital role in the emergence of "corridors of solidarity" across Europe, where grassroots social movements, engaged in anti-racist, anarchist, and anti-authoritarian politics, unite with migrants to devise non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. This book specifically delves into the strategies of migrants self-organizing their housing, as well as the collective occupation of buildings and land. These spaces become arenas for contentious politics and the reproduction of everyday life, challenging racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles unfolding in these spaces disrupt host-guest relations, often perpetuating state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining technologies. The solidarities and collaborations between undocumented and documented activists in these radical spaces create possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against, and within citizenship. These alliances not only reverse forms of exclusion and repression but also produce ungovernable resources, alliances, and subjectivities that foreshadow more livable spaces for all.

The contributions to this book view these struggles as forms of commoning, as they constitute autonomous socio-political infrastructures and networks of solidarity beyond and against the state and humanitarian provision. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367756024