Surviving is not a crime: the struggles of undocumented migrants in Barcelona
Author
Arce Bayona, Jose Joaquin
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2016
Submitted on
2016-05-31
Abstract
Barcelona har i årtier været et omdrejningspunkt for migrantdrevne mobiliseringer. Denne afhandling følger, hvordan papirløse og andre migranter siden slutningen af 1980'erne har organiseret sig gennem sultestrejker, besættelser, demonstrationer og forsamlinger for at kræve 'papirer til alle', bevægelsesfrihed, retten til at blive og selv vælge bopæl, en stopper for politivold og lukning af detentionscentre for migranter. Med udgangspunkt i deltagernes egne perspektiver og i migrationsaktivisters og bevægelsers kritiske tænkning placerer studiet disse kampe i bredere, transnationale modstandsgeografier. Analysen er forankret i postkoloniale perspektiver på subalterne politikker og viden samt i kritiske grænse- og statsborgerskabsstudier. Den spørger, hvordan disse bevægelser omformer selve forudsætningerne og betingelserne for det politiske, og fremsætter argumentet om, at migrantkampene ikke blot er politiske, men også epistemiske: de udfordrer dominerende rammer for rettigheder, statsborgerskab og suverænitet og peger mod deres nytænkning.
Barcelona has long been a focal point for migrant-led mobilization. This thesis traces how undocumented and other migrants have organized since the late 1980s through hunger strikes, occupations, demonstrations and assemblies to demand 'papers for all', freedom of movement, the right to stay and decide where to live, an end to police violence, and the closure of migrant detention centers. Centering the standpoint of participants and the critical thinking of migrant activists and movements, the study situates these struggles within wider transnational geographies of resistance. The analysis is guided by postcolonial perspectives on subaltern politics and knowledge and by critical border studies approaches to citizenship. It asks how these movements reshape the very premises and conditions of doing politics, and advances the argument that migrant struggles are not only political but also epistemic: they challenge dominant frameworks of rights, citizenship and sovereignty and point toward their reconfiguration.
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