In this book the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship.

Introduction; Part I - Mediation; 1. Persistent Looking in the Space of Appearance #BlackLivesMatter; 2. Community Media Makers and the Mediation of Difference: Claiming Citizenship and Belongingness; 3. "On this Path to Europe" - The Symbolic role of the 'Balkan Corridor' in the European Migration Debate; 4. Recycling the Christian Past. The Heritagization of Christianity and National Identity in the Netherlands; Part II - Sovereignty; 5. Love and Sovereignty: An Exploration of the Struggle for New Beginnings; 6. Postsecular Pacification: Pentecostalism and Military Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro; 7. Cities of Refuge: Rights, Culture and the Creation of Cosmopolitan Cityzenship; 8. Deepening and Widening of the Protection of Fundamental Rights of European Citizens vis-à-vis Non-State, Private Actors; Part III - Contestation; 9. Looking back, looking forward: Citizenship, Contestation and a New Compact for Child and Youth Mobility?; 10. In Search of New Narratives: The Role of Cultural Norms and Actors in Addressing Human Rights Contestation; 11. Contested Cultural Citizenship of a Virtual Transnational Community: Structural Impediments for Women to Participate in the Republic of Letters (1400-1800); 12. The Art of Dissent: Ai Weiwei, Rebel with a Cause.