Solidarity without Borders reads the micropolitics of migrants as political actors within a Gramscian context by observing alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organisations and other radical constituencies.
This book argues for Gramsci's theory of the formation of a transnational counter-hegemonic bloc, by studying methods of modern resistance and new forms of solidarity between these forming groups. With case studies of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social movements in Ireland and the Lampedusa in Hamburg, the authors consider how diverse new migrant political actors, newfound cross-border alliances, and spaces of resistance shape the political dimensions of protest.

As migrants are often deprived of agency and placed outside the mobilisations taking place across Europe, Solidarity without Borders demonstrates how new solidarity relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common ground for struggle and for developing political alternatives.

Series Preface

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances - Óscar Garcia Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen

Part I: The Heterogeneity of Political Actors

2. Gramsci's 'Philosophy of Praxis' and the Topic of Migration - Ursula Apitzsch

3: Countering Hegemony through a Park - Nazl enses and K vanç Özcan

4. Gramsci in Slices: Race, Colonialism, Migration and the Postcolonial Gramsci - Miguel Mellino

Part II: Solidarity and Alliances

5. Political and Social Alliances: Gramsci and Today - Derek Boothman

6. Gramsci, Migrants and Trade Unions: An Irish Case Study - Mary Hyland and Ronald Munck

7. The Southern Question and the Irish Question: A Social Movement Perspective - Laurence Cox

Part III: Avoiding Misplaced Alliances

8. Hegemony, Migration and Misplaced Alliances: Lessons from Gramsci - Peter Mayo

9. For the Sake of Workers but Not Immigrants Workers? Social Dumping and Free Movement - Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen

Part IV: Spaces of Resistance

10. Politicising the Crisis: The Southern Question, Uneven Geographies and the Construction of Solidarity - David Featherstone

11. Contesting Urban Management Regimes: The Rise of Urban Justice Movements in Sweden - Lisa Kings, Aleksandra Ålund and Nazem Tahvilzadeh

12. Spaces of Resistance and Re-Actuality of Gramsci in Refugees' Struggles for Rights? The 'Lampedusa In Hamburg' between Exit and Voice - Susi Meret and Elisabetta Della Corte

Conclusion

13. Against Pessimism: A Time and Space for Solidarity - Óscar Garcia Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen

Contributors

Index