The Immigrant Rights Struggle, and the Paradoxes of Radical Activism in Europe

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ID8244803
AuthorsSimin Fadaee (0000-0003-4660-6924, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume14
Issue6
Pages733-739
Publication date2015-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742837.2015.1070336
OpenAlexW2254462125
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This paper discusses one of the dilemmas inherent in social movement mobilizations: the lack of an aligned frame within a movement. It shows how the existence of a dominant and a subordinate faction (European activists and refugees) with different social and ideological identities within the immigrant rights mobilizations in Berlin led to the emergence of paradoxes, and became counterproductive. This had two consequences: first, a power structure emerged which privileged European activists over the very people they sought to empower. Second, some refugees began to adopt the European activists' framing of the issue as anti-colonial/capitalist, in spite of the fact that it contradicted their primary demands concerning permission to work and reside in Germany

Criminology · Framing (construction · Ideology · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Refugee · Social movement · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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