Migration and Mobile Rights, livre ebook

Investigates the effectiveness of migrant activism in driving social change;

Draws on diverse case studies to assess migrant activism’s impact on policy and public discourse;

Challenges traditional approaches to justice.

Migrant activism is key in today’s world, where countries in the Global North employ border regimes to reinforce racial hierarchies, limit freedom of movement, and exploit migrant labour. But how do migrant-led movements engage with human rights - do they see them as limited tools, or as frameworks that can be reimagined in the fight for border justice?

In this compelling study, Perolini critically examines the various ways migrants challenge these border regimes, and highlights the transformative potential of constructing human rights from below, moving beyond the state and legal norms.

Drawing on rich ethnographic research in Berlin, the book offers a fresh and provocative perspective on the intersections of migrant activism, human rights, and racial and border justice

Introduction

1. Human Rights: For Whom and By Whom? Approaches to Human Rights in Mobility Struggles

2 Racism, Migration, and Collective Resistance in Germany

3 Change Beyond the State? Mobility Struggles, Rights Claiming, and the State

4 ‘We Are All Refugees’: Mobility Struggles and Their Ambiguous Approach to Legal Norms

5 Non- Reformist Reforms, Border Abolitionism, and Mobile Rights

6 Mobility Struggles in Berlin 2.0

Conclusions

Postscript: My Freedom of Movement

Appendix: List of Organizations and Interviewees