For 'common struggles of migrants and locals'. Migrant activism and squatting in Athens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4524847
AutoresValeria Raimondi (0000-0003-1191-5014, Department of Social Sciences, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen23
Número6
Páginas559-576
Fecha de publicación2019-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2019.1634373
OpenAlexW2955774816
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas35

This article analysis the socio-political form of the migrant squats, and the socio-spatial interactions they foster and generate. Drawing on empirical research, it focuses on the Athenian context where, since September 2015, political groups belonging to the anti-authoritarian and Left-libertarian movement, occupied some empty buildings to host migrants in transit through the country. From a political perspective, the squats are interpreted here as strategies of struggle to gain access to the space of the city and they also constitute instances of migrant activism and resistance to the European border regime. Moreover, migrant occupations represent practices and sites for contesting citizenship, intended as a category of political status; as such, they exceed the limits of this category and move beyond the boundaries of the nation-state, originating practices of citizenship ‘from below’, while at the same time they produce subjectivities that choose to ‘opt out’ of citizenship as a legal status. This article is situated within the contextualisation of space and autonomy. Migrant squats are looked at from the angle of the ‘gaze of autonomy’, since they are aimed both at contesting citizenship as an exclusionary feature, and at revindicating the activists’ (both migrants and non) presence in the space of city

Authoritarianism · Autonomy · Citizenship · Democracy · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Turkey's Politics and Society