Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: Resistance and destabilization of racist regulatory policies and b/ordering mechanisms (Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics)

This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatter’s movements have evolved over past decades. The complexity and importance of squatting practices are analyzed from a bottom-up perspective, to demonstrate how the spaces of squatting can be transformed by migrants. With contributions from scholars, scholar-activists, and activists, this book provides unique insights into how squatting has offered an alternative to dominant anti-immigrant policies, and the implications of squatting on the social acceptance of migrants. It illustrates the different mechanisms of protest followed in solidarity by migrant squatters and Social Center activists, when discrimination comes from above or below, and explores how can different spatialities be conceived and realized by radical practices. Contributions adopt a variety of perspectives, from critical human geography, social movement studies, political sociology, urban anthropology, autonomous Marxism, feminism, open localism, anarchism and post-structuralism, to analyze and contextualize migrants and squatters’ exclusion and social justice issues. This book is a timely and original contribution through its exploration of migrations, squatting and radical autonomy. This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatter s movements have evolved over past decades. The complexity and importance of squatting practices are analyzed from a bottom-up perspective, to demonstrate how the spaces of squatting can be transformed by migrants. With contributions from scholars, scholar-activists, and activists, this book provides unique insights into how squatting has offered an alternative to dominant anti-immigrant policies, and the implications of squatting on the social acceptance of migrants. It illustrates the different mechanisms of protest followed in solidarity by migrant squatters and Social Center activists, when discrimination comes from above or below, and explores how can different spatialities be conceived and realized by radical practices. Contributions adopt a variety of perspectives, from critical human geography, social movement studies, political sociology, urban anthropology, autonomous Marxism, feminism, open localism, anarchism and post-structuralism, to analyze and contextualize migrants and squatters exclusion and social justice issues. This book is a timely and original contribution through its exploration of migrations, squatting and radical autonomy." This book offers a unique contribution, exploring how the intersections among migrants and radical squatter's movements have evolved over past decades. The complexity and importance of squatting practices are analyzed from a bottom-up perspective, to demonstrate how the spaces of squatting can be transformed by migrants. With contributions from scholars, scholar-activists, and activists, this book provides unique insights into how squatting has offered an alternative to dominant anti-immigrant policies, and the implications of squatting on the social acceptance of migrants. The book illustrates the different mechanisms of protest followed in solidarity by migrant squatters and Social Center activists, when discrimination comes from above or below, and explores how can different spatialities be conceived and realized by radical practices. Contributions adopt a variety of perspectives, from critical human geography, autonomous Marxism, feminism, eco-socialism and post-structuralism to analyze and contextualize migrant and squatters' exclusion and social justice issues. This book is a timely and original contribution through its exploration of migration, squatting and radical autonomy 10 Space invaders: the 'migrant-squatter' as the ultimate intruder -- 11 Racialization of informal settlements, depoliticization of squatting and everyday resistances in French slums -- 12 Emancipation, integration, or marginality: the Romanian Roma in Bologna and the Scalo Internazionale Migranti -- 13 "We are here to stay": reflections on the struggle of the refugee group "Lampedusa in Hamburg" and the Solidarity Campaign, 2013-2015 -- PART IV The difficulties of defining and arranging diversity among heterogeneous subjects -- 14 Sacred squatting: seeking sanctuary in religious spaces Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: migrations, squatting and radical autonomy -- PART I Borders and frontiers -- 1 From the desert to the courtroom: challenging the invisibility of the Operation Streamline dragnet and en-masse hearings -- 2 Frontex and its role in the European border regime -- 3 Undocumented territories: strategies of spatializations by undocumented migrants -- 4 Trapped on the border: a brief history of solidarity squatting practices in Calais 15 Beyond solidarity: migrants and squatters in Madrid -- 16 Narrating the challenges of women-refugee activists of Ohlauer Straße 12, International Women's Space (IWS refugee women activists), Berlin -- PART V Social centers, radical autonomy and squatting - beyond citizenship and borders -- 17 Beyond squatting: an autonomous culture center for refugees in Copenhagen -- 18 When migrants meet squatters: the case of the movement of migrants and refugees in Caserta -- 19 Migrant squatters in the Greek territory: practices of resistance and the production of the Athenian Urban Space PART II Squatting for housing -- 5 Why migrants' squats are a political issue: a few thoughts about the situation in France -- 6 Migration and mobilization for the right to housing in Rome: new urban frontiers? -- 7 Student migrants and squatting in Rome at times of austerity -- 8 Palazzo Bernini: an experience of a multicultural squatted house in Catania -- 9 The untold struggles of migrant women squatters and the occupations of Kottbusser Straße 8 and Forster Straße 16/17, Berlin-Kreuzberg -- PART III Resistance to exclusion, criminalization and precarity 20 Natural resource scarcity, degrowth scenarios and national borders: the role of migrant squats -- 21 Euro trash in Loïsada, New York -- 22 Squatting and the undocumented migrants' struggle in the Netherlands -- 23 Migration, squatting and radical autonomy: conclusions -- Index