Carl‐ulrik Schierup
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80767 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carl‐ulrik Schierup |
| PRENOMES | Carl‐ulrik |
| SOBRENOME | Schierup |
| ASSINATURA | SCHIERUP C U |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7328-4863 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden
The paper discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally and spatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as 'neo-apartheid' Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a critical re-engagement of the notions of 'racial capitalism' and 'neo-apartheid' in contemporary critical research, inspired, historically, by rich research on racial capitalism in South Africa under ap…
Handbook on Migration and Development
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics.
Contending Global Apartheid
Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. They proceed from the idea tha…
Transversal Solidarities and the City
The special issue contributes to the exploration of transversal solidarities counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand and a xenophobic populism on the other. It tracks contours of a multifarious countermovement, traversing 'race', class and gender, driven by reimaginings of the common and the renewal of democracy. The emphasis is on the understanding of contending urban justice movements, welcoming communities and their liaison…
Reinventing the People's House
The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from the multiethnic precariat in Sweden's most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed the reinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century, The People' House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contesting racial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scr…
Who Undermines the Welfare State? Austerity-Dogmatism and the U-Turn in Swedish Asylum Policy
Within the EU, the so-called “refugee crisis” has been predominantly dealt with as an ill-timed and untenable financial burden. Since the 2007–08 financial crisis, the overarching objective of policy initiatives by EU-governments has been to keep public expenditure firmly under control. Thus, Sweden’s decision to grant permanent residence to all Syrians seeking asylum in 2013 seemed to represent a paradigmatic exception, pointing to the possibili…
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
Sob o Arco-Íris
O artigo discute a precariedade como um ponto de convergência para a resistência, assim como uma condição social ligada à transição da elite na África do Sul pós-apartheid. Concentrando-se nas forças sistêmicas que impulsionam pobreza, desigualdade e meios de subsistência precários, o artigo aborda a transformação da força de trabalho da África do Sul e seu sistema migratório desde uma gestão centralizada de trabalho não-livre pela burocracia est…
Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times
The paper explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons and narrow nationalism; movements counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand, and a neoconservative xenophobic populism on the other. Applying ‘rainbow coalition’ as generic concept it points at contours of a globally extended countermovement for social transformation, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven by reimag…
"Race" and the upsurge of antagonistic popular movements in Sweden
Across a crisis-stricken Europe battles rage for post-neoliberal hegemony, with"race" and "austerity" as central signifiers. One of the places where thefrontlines are most pregnant is Sweden; long perceived as a role model for itswelfare state, cultural equity and social equality. Sweden is, however, facingsocial conflicts following in the tracks of a deep transformation in terms ofwelfare cuts, racialization and growing social polarization, targ…
Reimagineering the Nation
This chapter explores the capacity of two Swedish trade union initiatives, SAC Syndicalists and LO-TCO centre, to extend solidarity to undocumented migrant workers The author asks what solidarity linkages have been established since the shift of millennia and what obstacles encountered in forging solidarity between workers with strong versus weak legal status He illuminates the emergence of a transformative form of solidarity, which may open for …
Politics of Precarity
In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences, edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the contributing authors look into precarity. Precarity has become a buzzword in as well academia as among activist. The book depicts precarity as being both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance. The volume asks questions that investigate conditions and resistance across diverse cases such as first generati…
An Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics of Precarity
The current special issue examines the range and strength of analysing contemporary transformations and struggles through the lens of ‘precarity’. Rather than defining a single precariat, the interest is in exploring ‘varieties of precarity’. These take different forms in different parts of the world, on different scales and in different socio-economic contexts, and yet they share certain characteristics in terms of conditions and capacity for ag…
Under the Rainbow
The article focuses on systemic drivers of poverty, inequality and precarious livelihoods. It discusses the transformation of South Africa's labour force management and its migratory system from a centralized management of unfree labour by the apartheid state bureaucracy, to a post-apartheid state of precarity, driven by 'flexploitation'. The nexus of precarious work and a fracturing citizenship is seen to represent a duality of flexibility linki…
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
Migration and Ethnic Minorities
This article addresses two categories of people: immigrants and ethnic minorities. It briefly outlines three current research perspectives on ethnic diversity and the welfare state, each of them of importance for overcoming the general neglect of this issue, essential for both the present and future of North Atlantic societies. The article also describes what is referred to as tendencies towards Americanization of European welfare states. It then…
Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State
This book examines the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: immigration and ethnic relations research on the one hand, and the political economy of the welfare state on the other. Gunnar Myrdal’s questions in An American Dilemma are rephrased with reference to Europe’s current dual crisis — that of the established welfare state facing a d…
What Creed in Europe? Social Exclusion, Citizenship, and a Changing Eu Policy Agenda
During the last decade of the Twentieth Century the advanced North Atlantic economies performed in a markedly profitable way seen from the perspective of corporate business. This has neither led, however, to the impediment of a deepening social crisis, nor to the arrest of a crisis for liberal political values and norms of citizenship. On the contrary social exclusion was exacerbated, increasingly racialized and associated with immigrants and new…
Uteslutningens politiska ekonomi. Mot en transatlantisk konvergens
Political economies of exclusion: Transatlantic convergence or transatlantic split?The paper takes its point of departure in a discussion of US American theories on poverty, race and ethnic divisions of labour which have influenced current European research on poverty and social exclusion among immigrants and new ethnic minorities with immigrant background. The focus is in particular on theories of the Black US urban ghetto and its workless and w…
A European Dilemma
`America has a negro problem', the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal stated in the introduction to his modern classic, An American Dilemma, first published in 1944. Half a century later, the so-called `immigrant problem' is moving to the top of the political agenda of EU Europe. To speak about a European dilemma in this context means to relate established European values of social solidarity and social responsibility to an increasingly ethnicised a…
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity
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Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
An Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics of Precarity
The current special issue examines the range and strength of analysing contemporary transformations and struggles through the lens of ‘precarity’. Rather than defining a single precariat, the interest is in exploring ‘varieties of precarity’. These take different forms in different parts of the world, on different scales and in different socio-economic contexts, and yet they share certain characteristics in terms of conditions and capacity for ag…
"Race" and the upsurge of antagonistic popular movements in Sweden
Across a crisis-stricken Europe battles rage for post-neoliberal hegemony, with"race" and "austerity" as central signifiers. One of the places where thefrontlines are most pregnant is Sweden; long perceived as a role model for itswelfare state, cultural equity and social equality. Sweden is, however, facingsocial conflicts following in the tracks of a deep transformation in terms ofwelfare cuts, racialization and growing social polarization, targ…
Who Undermines the Welfare State? Austerity-Dogmatism and the U-Turn in Swedish Asylum Policy
Within the EU, the so-called “refugee crisis” has been predominantly dealt with as an ill-timed and untenable financial burden. Since the 2007–08 financial crisis, the overarching objective of policy initiatives by EU-governments has been to keep public expenditure firmly under control. Thus, Sweden’s decision to grant permanent residence to all Syrians seeking asylum in 2013 seemed to represent a paradigmatic exception, pointing to the possibili…
Quasi‐proletarians and a patriarchal bureaucracy
THE CRISIS AND COLLAPSE of 'real socialism' in Europe should be seen in the overall perspective of increasingly unequal conditions in confrontation with a global capitalist economy undergoing profound restructuring since the beginning of the 1970s. The social and economic systems of'real socialism' showed themselves incapable of commanding or developing forms of organisation consistent with the demands of the 'third industrial revolution' (the mi…
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
Under the Rainbow
The article focuses on systemic drivers of poverty, inequality and precarious livelihoods. It discusses the transformation of South Africa's labour force management and its migratory system from a centralized management of unfree labour by the apartheid state bureaucracy, to a post-apartheid state of precarity, driven by 'flexploitation'. The nexus of precarious work and a fracturing citizenship is seen to represent a duality of flexibility linki…
Will They Still Be Dancing? Integration and Ethnic Transformation among Yugoslav Immigrants in Scandinavia
Indulged with sociological self-centeredness we have reduced vampires to mechanisms of social cohesion. Hence,we have questioned a culture, seeing vampires as what they are, the dead ones haunting
Transversal Solidarities and the City
The special issue contributes to the exploration of transversal solidarities counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand and a xenophobic populism on the other. It tracks contours of a multifarious countermovement, traversing 'race', class and gender, driven by reimaginings of the common and the renewal of democracy. The emphasis is on the understanding of contending urban justice movements, welcoming communities and their liaison…
Reinventing the People's House
The paper focuses on an anti-austerity and anti-racist urban movement, emerging from the multiethnic precariat in Sweden's most disadvantaged metropolitan areas. It has catalysed the reinvention of a common space with roots in the labour movement of the late 19th century, The People' House, a meme for contemporary community centres, loaded with hopes of contesting racial stigma and structurally conditioned precarity of citizenship and labour. Scr…
Re-imagineering the Common in Precarious Times
The paper explores movements for social transformation in precarious times of austerity, dispossessed commons and narrow nationalism; movements counterpoised to an exhausted neoliberalism on the one hand, and a neoconservative xenophobic populism on the other. Applying ‘rainbow coalition’ as generic concept it points at contours of a globally extended countermovement for social transformation, traversing ‘race’, class and gender, driven by reimag…
A European Dilemma
`America has a negro problem', the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal stated in the introduction to his modern classic, An American Dilemma, first published in 1944. Half a century later, the so-called `immigrant problem' is moving to the top of the political agenda of EU Europe. To speak about a European dilemma in this context means to relate established European values of social solidarity and social responsibility to an increasingly ethnicised a…
Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden
The paper discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally and spatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as 'neo-apartheid' Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a critical re-engagement of the notions of 'racial capitalism' and 'neo-apartheid' in contemporary critical research, inspired, historically, by rich research on racial capitalism in South Africa under ap…
Sob o Arco-Íris
O artigo discute a precariedade como um ponto de convergência para a resistência, assim como uma condição social ligada à transição da elite na África do Sul pós-apartheid. Concentrando-se nas forças sistêmicas que impulsionam pobreza, desigualdade e meios de subsistência precários, o artigo aborda a transformação da força de trabalho da África do Sul e seu sistema migratório desde uma gestão centralizada de trabalho não-livre pela burocracia est…
The post-communist enigma
Ethnic‐nationalist mobilisation is the dominant political factor of the Yugoslavian crisis. But a general ‘ethnification’ of the political process is a characteristic product of the socialist state system, rather than a perpetuation of past ethnic conflicts. Simultaneously, new ‘post‐communist’ popular movements and political parties are confronted with dilemmas similar to those faced by the dethroned socialist regimes, in a situation where radic…
The duty to work
This article discusses issues of Swedish immigration and refugee policy. It is argued that several sudden re‐orientations of the official refugee policy during the 1980s are related to the social democratic government's problems in balancing the conflicting claims of employers, unions, humanistically orientated pressure groups and public opinion in general. This is one of the reasons for apparent contradictions between a number of administrative …
Why are vampires still alive? Wallachian immigrants in Scandinavia
Approche de la croyance aux vampires dans la societe paysanne valache (Yougoslavie) en liaison avec les relations familiales et les processus de transmission intergeneration . Etude du changement des relations entre generations a la suite de vingt ans de migration en Scandinavie. Comparaison des conflits entre generations en Suede et au Danemark en relation avec les modeles d'integration dans ces deux pays
The Immigrants and the Crisis
The present economic crisis manifests itself in rising unemployment rates. All over Western Europe immigrants have been hit the hardest by unem ployment. Unemployment is especially pronounced among immigrant youth - 'the second generation' This presents a senous threat to the efforts to integrate immigrants into the Western European societies. A crisis of 'integration policy' will be intrinsically connected to a more general crisis: the crisis of…
Why are vampires still alive? Wallachian immigrants in Scandinavia
Approche de la croyance aux vampires dans la societe paysanne valache (Yougoslavie) en liaison avec les relations familiales et les processus de transmission intergeneration . Etude du changement des relations entre generations a la suite de vingt ans de migration en Scandinavie. Comparaison des conflits entre generations en Suede et au Danemark en relation avec les modeles d'integration dans ces deux pays
Will They Still Be Dancing? Integration and Ethnic Transformation among Yugoslav Immigrants in Scandinavia
Indulged with sociological self-centeredness we have reduced vampires to mechanisms of social cohesion. Hence,we have questioned a culture, seeing vampires as what they are, the dead ones haunting
The duty to work
This article discusses issues of Swedish immigration and refugee policy. It is argued that several sudden re‐orientations of the official refugee policy during the 1980s are related to the social democratic government's problems in balancing the conflicting claims of employers, unions, humanistically orientated pressure groups and public opinion in general. This is one of the reasons for apparent contradictions between a number of administrative …
The post-communist enigma
Ethnic‐nationalist mobilisation is the dominant political factor of the Yugoslavian crisis. But a general ‘ethnification’ of the political process is a characteristic product of the socialist state system, rather than a perpetuation of past ethnic conflicts. Simultaneously, new ‘post‐communist’ popular movements and political parties are confronted with dilemmas similar to those faced by the dethroned socialist regimes, in a situation where radic…
Books
Alison Dundes Renteln, International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism London: Sage, 1990, Frontiers of Anthropology, Vol. 6, 203 pp., £13.95 p.b. Scott Bennett, Aborigines and Political Power London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, 167 pp., £9.95 p.b. Keith Tompson, Under Siege: Racial Violence in Britain Today London: Penguin, 1988, 204 pp., £3.99 p.b. Shelagh Gastrow, Who's Who in South African Politics London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1990, Third …
Kulturpluralismens paradoxer
Mångkulturalism är i dag en integrerad del i europeiskt politiskt liv. På somliga ställen har ett erkännande av kulturarv och bejakande av vidmakthållna etniska grupperingar utformats till en officiell och legitimerad politisk ideologi. På andra ställen spelar kulturpluralism - ideologiskt och politiskt - en oppositionell roll genom sitt hävdande av invandrares och etniska minoriteters grundläggande rätt till kulturell autonomi. Horace Kallen’s (…
Quasi‐proletarians and a patriarchal bureaucracy
THE CRISIS AND COLLAPSE of 'real socialism' in Europe should be seen in the overall perspective of increasingly unequal conditions in confrontation with a global capitalist economy undergoing profound restructuring since the beginning of the 1970s. The social and economic systems of'real socialism' showed themselves incapable of commanding or developing forms of organisation consistent with the demands of the 'third industrial revolution' (the mi…
Paradoxes of Multiculturalism
Sweden is reputed to have the most avant-garde welfare and immigration policies in Europe. But behind this image lies a more complex reality. Recent changes are turning an explicit commitment to multiculturalism into a kind of cultural repression that conceals the structure of power underlying racial, ethnic, gender and class inequalities. Drawing fruitfully on comparisons with Britain and other European countries, Alexandra Ålund and Carl-Ulrik …
From Our Readers
A European Dilemma
`America has a negro problem', the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal stated in the introduction to his modern classic, An American Dilemma, first published in 1944. Half a century later, the so-called `immigrant problem' is moving to the top of the political agenda of EU Europe. To speak about a European dilemma in this context means to relate established European values of social solidarity and social responsibility to an increasingly ethnicised a…
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity
Uteslutningens politiska ekonomi. Mot en transatlantisk konvergens
Political economies of exclusion: Transatlantic convergence or transatlantic split?The paper takes its point of departure in a discussion of US American theories on poverty, race and ethnic divisions of labour which have influenced current European research on poverty and social exclusion among immigrants and new ethnic minorities with immigrant background. The focus is in particular on theories of the Black US urban ghetto and its workless and w…
What Creed in Europe? Social Exclusion, Citizenship, and a Changing Eu Policy Agenda
During the last decade of the Twentieth Century the advanced North Atlantic economies performed in a markedly profitable way seen from the perspective of corporate business. This has neither led, however, to the impediment of a deepening social crisis, nor to the arrest of a crisis for liberal political values and norms of citizenship. On the contrary social exclusion was exacerbated, increasingly racialized and associated with immigrants and new…
Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State
This book examines the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: immigration and ethnic relations research on the one hand, and the political economy of the welfare state on the other. Gunnar Myrdal’s questions in An American Dilemma are rephrased with reference to Europe’s current dual crisis — that of the established welfare state facing a d…
Migration and Ethnic Minorities
This article addresses two categories of people: immigrants and ethnic minorities. It briefly outlines three current research perspectives on ethnic diversity and the welfare state, each of them of importance for overcoming the general neglect of this issue, essential for both the present and future of North Atlantic societies. The article also describes what is referred to as tendencies towards Americanization of European welfare states. It then…
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Reading the Stockholm riots - a moment for social justice
This article examines the 2013 riots in Stockholm in the context of other urban rebellions across disadvantaged metropolitan neighbourhoods in the North-Atlantic region over the past three decades of neoliberal transformation. The authors discuss the consequences of securitisation and police repression, institutional racism, the corrosion of citizenship and the structuring of inequality in Swedish cities. Beyond the violence of the recent riots, …
An Introduction to the Special Issue. Politics of Precarity
The current special issue examines the range and strength of analysing contemporary transformations and struggles through the lens of ‘precarity’. Rather than defining a single precariat, the interest is in exploring ‘varieties of precarity’. These take different forms in different parts of the world, on different scales and in different socio-economic contexts, and yet they share certain characteristics in terms of conditions and capacity for ag…
Under the Rainbow
The article focuses on systemic drivers of poverty, inequality and precarious livelihoods. It discusses the transformation of South Africa's labour force management and its migratory system from a centralized management of unfree labour by the apartheid state bureaucracy, to a post-apartheid state of precarity, driven by 'flexploitation'. The nexus of precarious work and a fracturing citizenship is seen to represent a duality of flexibility linki…
Reimagineering the Nation
This chapter explores the capacity of two Swedish trade union initiatives, SAC Syndicalists and LO-TCO centre, to extend solidarity to undocumented migrant workers The author asks what solidarity linkages have been established since the shift of millennia and what obstacles encountered in forging solidarity between workers with strong versus weak legal status He illuminates the emergence of a transformative form of solidarity, which may open for …
Politics of Precarity
In Politics of Precarity: Migrant Conditions, Struggles and Experiences, edited by Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen, the contributing authors look into precarity. Precarity has become a buzzword in as well academia as among activist. The book depicts precarity as being both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance. The volume asks questions that investigate conditions and resistance across diverse cases such as first generati…
Who Undermines the Welfare State? Austerity-Dogmatism and the U-Turn in Swedish Asylum Policy
Within the EU, the so-called “refugee crisis” has been predominantly dealt with as an ill-timed and untenable financial burden. Since the 2007–08 financial crisis, the overarching objective of policy initiatives by EU-governments has been to keep public expenditure firmly under control. Thus, Sweden’s decision to grant permanent residence to all Syrians seeking asylum in 2013 seemed to represent a paradigmatic exception, pointing to the possibili…
Making or unmaking a movement? Challenges for civic activism in the global governance of migration
This article discusses dilemmas of global civic activism from a neo-Gramscian perspective as both subordinated and a potential challenge to hegemonic neoliberal order. With the investigational focus on the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA) event, the space for civic activism relating to the intergovernmental Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and its associated Civil Society Days and Common Spac…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
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