Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy

Pierpaolo Mudu is Professor in the Faculty of Urban Studies and Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington – Tacoma, USA. Sutapa Chattopadhyay is sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto-Munk School (Canada) and affiliated Researcher at United Nations and Maastricht Universities (Netherlands).

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION Migrations, Squatting and Radical Autonomy

PART I: BORDERS AND FRONTIERS

1. From the Desert to the Courtroom: Challenging the Invisibility of the Operation Streamline Dragnet and En-masse Hearings

2. Frontex and its Role in the European Border Regime

3. Undocumented Territories: Strategies of Specialization by Undocumented Migrants

4. Trapped on the Border: a Brief History of Solidarity Squatting Practices in Calais

PART II: SQUATTING FOR HOUSING

5. Why Migrants Squats are a Political Issue: a Few Thoughts about the Situation in France

6. Migration and Mobilization for the Right to Housing in Rome. New Urban Frontiers?

7. Student Migrants and Squatting in Rome at Times of Austerity

8. Palazzo Bernini: an Experience of a Multicultural Squatted House in Catania

9. The Untold Struggles of Migrant Women Squatters and the Occupations of Kottbusser Straße 8 and Forster Straße 16/17, Berlin-Kreuzberg

PART III: EXCLUSION, CRIMINALIZATION AND PRECARITY

10. Space Invaders: The ‘Migrant-Squatter’ as the Ultimate Intruder

11. Racialization of Informal Settlements, De-politicization of Squatting and Everyday Resistances in French Slums

12. Emancipation, Integration, or Marginality: The Romanian Roma in Bologna and the Scalo Internazionale Migranti

13. ‘We are here to stay’: Reflections on the Struggle of the Refugee Group "Lampedusa in Hamburg" and the Solidarity Campaign, 2013–2015

PART IV: DIFFICULTIES OF DIVERSITY AND ACTION

14. Sacred Squatting: Seeking Sanctuary in Religious Spaces

15. Beyond Solidarity: Migrants and Squatters in Madrid

16. Narrating the Challenges of Women-Refugee Activists of Ohlauer Straße 12, International Women’s Space, Berlin

PART V: SOCIAL CENTERS, RADICAL AUTONOMY AND SQUATTING – BEYOND CITIZENSHIP AND BORDERS

17. Trampolinehuset: An Autonomous Culture Center for Refugees in Copenhagen

18. When migrants meet squatters: the case of the movement of migrants and refugees in Caserta

19. Migrant Squatters in the Greek Territory: Practices of Resistance and the Production of the Athenian Urban Space

20. Natural Resource Scarcity, Degrowth Scenarios and National Borders: The Role of Migrant Squats

21. Euro Trash in Loïsada, New York

22. Squatting and the Illegalized Migrants’ Struggles in the Netherlands

23. Migrations, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: conclusions