The Contentious Politics of Refugee and Migrant Protest and Solidarity Movements

Ilker Ataç is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, and editor of the journal Movements. His research interests are in the area of citizenship studies and migration policies, irregular migration and social movement studies. His work has appeared in the journals Citizenship Studies, Austrian Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere. He is currently working on social membership of non-deported persons.Kim Rygiel is an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Her research focuses on migrant solidarity activism in Europe, and her work has been published in Citizenship Studies, European Journal of Social Theory and International Political Sociology. She is author of Globalizing Citizenship (2010) and co-editor (with Peter Nyers) of Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement (2012).Maurice Stierl is a visiting assistant professor at the University of California Davis, USA. His research focuses on migration struggles in contemporary Europe and his work has appeared in the journals Globalizations, Citizenship Studies, Movements, Global Society, Antipode and elsewhere. Dr Stierl is a member of the activist project WatchTheMed Alarm Phone.