Border Regimes, Racialisation Processes and Resistance in Germany: An Ethnographic Study of Protest and Solidarity

ISBN-13: 9783030493196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 253 str.

Fazila Bhimji

Recenzje

"The monograph offers the richest ethnography of the Berlin-based refugee movement to date. ... the book is a must-read for all those interested in migration and refugee social movements and who think that fighting for a borderless world/movement is necessary struggle." (Ziga Podgornik Jakil, Sociologus, Vol. 71 (2), 2021)

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The Refugee Movement 2012-

1.2 The Formation of Activist, Solidarity and Cultural Groups 

1.3 Aims of the Book

1.4 Contentious Politics, Solidarity, Volunteerism and Humanitarianism

1.5 Coming to Berlin and Doing Ethnography 

1.6 Organisation of the Book

Chapter 2 The Racialization of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in the Everyday in the German State.

2.1 Introduction

      2.2 Institutional and Everyday Racism at Refugee Camps and Reception Centres in Germany.

       2.3 Camps, State Power and Institutional Racism

      2.4 Racialization and Racist Violence

     2.5 Migration and Populist Racist Mobilisation

     2.6 Living with Deportability and Detainability

    2.7  Concluding Comments

Chapter 3 Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Tent Protests and Squatting: The Refugee Movement at Oranienplatz

3.1 The Refugee Protests, 2012-2014

3.2 Oranienplatz as a Site of Anti-Racist Protests

3.3 Heterogeneous Struggles at Oranienplatz

      3.4 Diversity of Demands by Refugee Groups

3.5 The Formation of Activist, Solidarity and Cultural Groups

Chapter 4 Practical Solidarity, Encounters and Transformative Possibilities: A Case Study.

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Anti-Racist Politics versus ‘Charity’

4.3 Political Networking

4.4 Working Structure of Schlafplatzorga

4.5 Networking with Solidarians

4.6 Hospitality and Hosting Refugees

4.7 Contact Persons and Refugees

4.8 Solidarity Events and Sociality

4.8.1 Solidarity Parties

4.8.2 The Techno-Festival

4.8.3 Solidarity at Demonstrations

4.8.4 The Küfas

4.9 Concluding Comments

Chapter 5: Intersectional Feminist Solidarity and Activism amongst Refugees and Migrants at International Women’s Space 

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Political Culture at IWS

5.3 Funding Matters at IWS 

                          5.4 IWS and Meeting Spaces

5.5 The Women at IWS

  5.6 Meetings at IWS

5.7 Lawyers’ Workshops at IWS

          5.8 ‘Giving Voice’ and Narratives of Intersectional Experiences 

          5.9 Book Launches and Networking

        5.10 The Conference as a Collective Gathering

                   5.11   IWS and Advocacy for a Roma Woman

                  5.12 Street Protests, Speeches and Alliances   

      5.13  Concluding Comments

Chapter 6: There is Empowerment in the Air: Media Activists Decolonize the Radio

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Participating on the Radio

        6.4 The Beginning of Wearebornfree Empowerment Radio Project

6.5 Emancipation, Decoloniality and Humanity on the Radio

6.6 Wearebornfree Empowerment Radio and Sovereignty 

                        6.7  We!R Radio’s Shows

6.3.1 The Format, Content and the Intended Audience

6.3.2 Music on Wearebornfree Radio

6.3.3 Mediating Rastafari Culture and Resisting the Babylon System on the Radio 

6.3.4 The Polizei, Deportability and Anti-racist Activism

6.3.5 Expressions Of Solidarity on International Women’s Day 

6.3.6 Encounters with Artists, Alliance building and working with the ‘Left’

6.4 Concluding Comments

Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reconsidering Activism and Solidarity

7.1 Political Ideologies and Activism and Solidarity

7.2 Solidarity and Activism as an Extension of Refugee Protests

7.3 Political Activism, Practical Solidarity and Humanity 

7.4 Impact of Refugee Mobilisation and Solidarity Work

O autorze

Fazila Bhimji is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is the author of British Asian Muslim Women, Multiple Spatialities and Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave, 2012).

Blurb

Illustrating new resistance strategies and mobilisations, this volume examines how EU citizens and refugee populations in Germany have opposed asylum policies and coped with hostile migration regimes. Taking as her starting point occupations of a Berlin square in 2012, the author weaves an auto-ethnographic account of her own involvement in solidarity and refugee resistance groups with archival examinations of various strategies. The book analyzes how activism is sustained in multiple ways: media solidarity groups challenge mainstream depictions; radio shows attempt to decolonize the media and resist the category of ‘refugee’; a group of women comprised of migrants and asylum-seekers publish their accounts; solidarity groups help migrants to find temporary housing; campaigns align with existing groups or engage with political conversations more broadly to challenge populism, racism, and anti-migrant sentiment. As she bridges practical solidarity, media activism, and other strategies, Fazila Bhimji builds a framework to show how these tactics interrelate, interrogating specifically if the fragmentation of strategies limits anti-racist struggles, or whether providing manifold outlets for a collective struggle helps to build solidarity.