Full Description
This timely book explores the role of social imagination in challenging the dominant narratives on migration. In light of contemporary global crises, it highlights alternatives to current approaches, promoting more just and humane migration futures.
Drawing on diverse case studies of migrant- and civil society-led innovations, contributing authors examine how radical imagination emerges in reaction to restrictive and exclusionary migration policies. The book evaluates interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks, investigating the field through discursive, organizational and spatial dimensions. It engages with activism, policy critique and cultural production to reveal the transformative potential of alternative imaginaries in shaping public discourse as well as social and institutional change.
Radical Imagination on Migration in a Turbulent Era is essential reading for academics and students of migration studies, geography, political science and sociology. It will also appeal to policymakers and practitioners seeking fresh perspectives on mobility, borders and belonging in an increasingly uncertain world.
Contents
Contents
List of contributors vii
1 Introduction to Radical Imagination on Migration in a
Turbulent Era 1
Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
PART I THE DISCURSIVE DIMENSION
2 Framing cosmopolitanism: a social imaginary for an
intersectional political community 15
Óscar García Agustín
3 Democracy in flames: migrations and Amazonian rainforest 29
Giuseppe Cocco
4 "I still can't believe this place exists": activism and hostility
in a deportation camp 41
Paola Buconjic
5 Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society 55
Carl-Ulrik Schierup
PART II THE ORGANISATIONAL DIMENSION
6 Manteros' voice and political imagination (or how fiction
sustains anti-racist politics) 68
Laura Menna
7 Fellow minorities? Left-wing nationalism, refugee activism,
and a detention camp in Wales 81
Franz Bernhardt
8 Shaping power dynamics and social imaginaries in volunteer
efforts with Ukrainian refugees 93
Ana Maria Macías García
PART III THE SPATIAL DIMENSION
9 Place-making through radical imaginaries 109
Martin Bak Jørgensen
10 Radical imaginaries of home and care through refugee
solidarity squatting 122
Matina Kapsali
11 Corridors of care: transnational solidarity and radical
hospitality in Ukraine and Poland 135
Tomislav Pušić
12 Reimagining the global landscape: radical imagination in
times of crisis; solidarity cities into perspective 149
Mashudu Salifu
Afterword on utopia and radical imaginaries 164
Harald Bauder
