3549 - Immigrant Resistance: Collective Action and Everyday Contention

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

A significant strand of immigration scholarship focuses on assimilation, integration and incorporation. But what about immigrants’ strategies and acts of resistance, especially in contexts where they face a harsh reception or difficult political and legal climate? How can migrants make political claims when they do not hold citizenship and when political action makes them vulnerable to deportation and removal? Is the path to political voice one of being a ‘super-citizen,’ proving full integration? Or is there space for alternative challenges that still have resonance among majority populations? Topics relevant to this panel could span such topics as collective action by undocumented migrants in the US, protest by asylum-seekers in Europe, or acts of resistance by temporary workers in the Gulf States. Resistance might be collective or built up by everyday contention.

Sub Unit

• Section on International Migration / Immigrant Resistance: Collective Action and Everyday Contention

Session Organizer

• Irene H.I. Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

Presider

• Irene H.I. Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• Arenas of Fragile Alliance (Un-)Making? The Case of Precarious Migrant Activism in Berlin and Vienna - Ilker Ataç, Hochschule RheinMain; Elias Steinhilper, DeZIM Institut e.V.,

• Civic Participation of Undocumented Immigrants in California - Kevin Beck, University of Hartford; Karina Shklyan, University of California, San Diego

• The Nexus between Diaspora Mobilization and Immigrant Resistance: A Case Study of the Arab Spring Abroad - Dana M. Moss, University of Pittsburgh

• “We Have Rights:” Low-Income Collective Identity and Immigrant Claims-Making in San Francisco - Melanie Jones Gast, University of Louisville; Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University; Emerald Thai Han Nguyen, University of California Davis

Discussant

• Kim Ebert, North Carolina State University