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Migrants squats are an essential part of the ‘corridors of
solidarity’ that are being created throughout Europe, where
grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and
anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising
non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. This
book focuses on migrants’ self-organised housing strategies in
Europe and the collective squatting of buildings and land. In these
spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot
racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these
spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate
state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining
technologies. The solidarities and collaborations between
undocumented and documented activists in these radical spaces
enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within
citizenship. These do not only reverse forms of exclusion and
repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliances and
subjectivities that prefigure more livable spaces for all. The
contributions to this book address these struggles as forms of
commoning, as they constitute autonomous socio-political
infrastructures and networks of solidarity beyond and against the
state and humanitarian provision. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Migrants squats are an essential part of the 'corridors of
solidarity' that are being created throughout Europe, where
grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and
anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising
non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. This
book focuses on migrants' self-organised housing strategies in
Europe and the collective squatting of buildings and land. In these
spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot
racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these
spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate
state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining
technologies. The solidarities and collaborations between
undocumented and documented activists in these radical spaces
enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within
citizenship. These do not only reverse forms of exclusion and
repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliances and
subjectivities that prefigure more livable spaces for all. The
contributions to this book address these struggles as forms of
commoning, as they constitute autonomous socio-political
infrastructures and networks of solidarity beyond and against the
state and humanitarian provision. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory
located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted
in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing
Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively
reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Citta
Meticcia (the mestizo city). Through a vivid activist-ethnographic
account, Margherita Grazioli suggests that Metropoliz exemplifies a
practice of grassroots urban regeneration that speaks to the
conflicted reconfiguration of real estate urban regimes in a
post-crisis, post-neoliberal scenario. Using the contentious
reappropriation of housing as a point of departure for claiming
manifold rights, Metropoliz represents an alternative model of
urbanity and habitation that will inspire contemporary urban social
movements concerned with the demand of the 'right to the city', as
well as those concerned with the ontology of the urban commons.
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