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Contentious Migrant Solidarity In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and – as this book argues – its practice has become increasingly contentious. Intersecting crises have sharpened social and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent. Building upon social movement and migration studies, this book maps the two sides of ‘contentious solidarity’: a shrinking civic space and its contestation by civil society. The book thereby unfolds the variety of repressive means (physical, legal, administrative and discursive) employed by governmental and non-governmental bodies against migrant sol- idarity, but also looks at how civil society organizations react to these restrictions through at times moderation and at times increasing contention. The diagnosis of ‘contentious soli- darity’ is located within two broader trends affecting the relationship between the state and civil society in a neoliberal context in general and since the financial crisis in particular. Bridging studies on social movement studies and civil society organizations, this vol- ume contributes to recent reflections on repression of social movements as well as of a hybridization of civil society organizations. Given its broad scope and the utmost time- liness of the issues it addresses, the volume will be of interest to a broad academic and non-academic audience. Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. She is Honorary Doctor of the universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Goteborg, Jyvaskyla and the University of Pelo- ponnese. Among her very recent publications are: Social Movements: An introduction, 3rd edition (2020), Can Social Movements Save Democracy? (2020), Die schöne neue Demokratie. Über das Potenzial sozialer Bewegungen (2020), Contesting Higher Education (2020), Dis- coursive Turns and Critical Junctures (2020), Legacies and Memories in Movements (2018). Elias Steinhilper is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin and a member of the Centre on Social Move- ments Studies (Cosmos) in Florence. Trained as a political sociologist in Berlin, Freiburg and Florence, he has a particular interest in migration, political conflict, civil society and social movements. His research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including Sociology, Social Movement Studies, International Migration and in the recent monograph Migrant Protest. Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations (2021). The Criminalization of Political Dissent Series editor: Professor Judith Bessant, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia This challenging new book series explores the way governments since 9/11 from across the political spectrum intensified their efforts to criminalize both tradi- tional and new forms of digital political dissent. The series will feature major contributions from the social sciences, law and legal studies, media studies and philosophy to document what happens when governments choose to regard ac- tivists campaigning for increased government transparency and accountability, environmental sustainability, social justice, human rights and pro-democracy as engaging in illegal activities. The book series explores the legal, political and ethical implications when gov- ernments engage habitually in mass electronic and digital surveillance, outlaw freedom of movement real and virtual public assembly and prosecute digital activ- ists. The books in this series are a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the future of democracy. Shooting the Messenger Criminalising Journalism Andrew Fowler Criminalizing Dissent The Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy Rob Watts Contentious Migrant Solidarity Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation Edited by Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/ The-Criminalization-of-Political-Dissent/book-series/CRIMPD Contentious Migrant Solidarity Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation Edited by Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper First published 2022 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-367-53832-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-53834-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-08342-9 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003083429 Typeset in Goudy by codeMantra Contents List of figures vii List of tables ix Notes on the contributors xi 1 Shrinking spaces and civil society contestation: an introduction 1 DONATELLA DELLA PORTA AND ELIAS STEINHILPER 2 (Un)Contentious solidarity at sea: the shifting politics of nongovernmental rescue activities in the Mediterranean 19 CHARLES HELLER 3 The criminalisation of solidarity: Asylum-seekers and Australia’s illiberal-democracy 44 JUDITH BESSANT AND ROB WATTS 4 Crimmigration and solidarity in the global city: the case of Barcelona’s street vendors 63 RAFFAELE BAZURLI AND CARLOS DELCLÓS 5 Keeping it private or making it political? “Soft repression” and the depoliticisation of everyday conversations among pro- refugee volunteers 83 GAJA MAESTRI AND PIERRE MONFORTE 6 Shrinking digital spaces: the hijacking of #refugees welcome campaigns on Twitter 100 ALEXANDRA COSIMA BUDABIN AND NINA HALL vi Contents 7 Bureaucracy as border: barriers to social rights in Spain 121 MARTA PÉREZ, DÉBORA ÁVILA, SERGIO GARCÍA, AND ARIADNA AYALA 8 Mountain patrols at the Franco-Italian border: performing solidarity, dissent and citizenship 138 JANINA PESCINSKI 9 Scale-switching as a response to a shrinking space for solidarity: a comparison of Denmark’s Venligboerne and Germany’s Seebrücke 156 LEANDROS FISCHER AND MARTIN BAK JØRGENSEN 10 Emotions in shrinking spaces for migrant solidarity: the protest campaign in the “Diciotti Ship Affair” at the Port of Catania 176 FEDERICA FRAZZETTA AND GIANNI PIAZZA 11 Counterprotest and anti-racist solidarity in the Trump era 195 LESLEY J. WOOD 12 The “solidarity crime” in the Maritime Alps: exploring the effects of criminal trials on migrant solidarity networks 214 SOLIDARITY WATCH Index 235 Figures 6.1 Frequency of #RefugeesNOTWelcome (2015–2019) 108 6.2 Google Trends of RefugeesNotWelcome and RefugeesWelcome 109 6.3 Commonly Co-Occurring Hashtags and Keywords Related to Far-Right Exclusionary Discourses in #RefugeesNOTWelcome Dataset 111 12.1 The Solidarity Crime in the Maritime Alps 228 Tables 6.1 Approximate number of tweets containing pro-solidarity or anti-solidarity hashtags 108 6.2 Examples of soft-repression and hijacking in #RefugeesWelcomeTweets 113
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