Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation

294 Pages·2018·4.768 MB·English

by  Sieglinde Rosenberger, Verena Stern, Nina Merhaut

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Sieglinde Rosenberger
Verena Stern
Nina Merhaut Editors
Protest Movements
in Asylum
and Deportation
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Sieglinde Rosenberger • Verena Stern
Nina Merhaut
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Protest Movements
in Asylum and Deportation
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Sieglinde Rosenberger Verena Stern
University of Vienna Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Vienna, Austria Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nina Merhaut
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Political Protest in Asylum and Deportation. An Introduction . . . . . 3
Sieglinde Rosenberger
Part II Contextualizing Protest
2 Asylum Policies and Protests in Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Nina Merhaut and Verena Stern
3 Between Illegalization, Toleration, and Recognition:
Contested Asylum and Deportation Policies in Germany . . . . . . . . . . 49
Maren Kirchhoff and David Lorenz
4 Who Ought to Stay? Asylum Policy and Protest Culture
in Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Dina Bader
Part III Solidarity Protests Against Deportations
5 Tracing Anti-deportation Protests: A Longitudinal Comparison
of Austria, Germany and Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Didier Ruedin, Sieglinde Rosenberger, and Nina Merhaut
6 Worth the Effort: Protesting Successfully Against Deportations . . . . 117
Maren Kirchhoff, Johanna Probst, Helen Schwenken,
and Verena Stern
7 Saving the Deportee: Actors and Strategies
of Anti-deportation Protests in Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Dina Bader and Johanna Probst
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Part IV Refugee Activism for Inclusion
8 “We Belong Together!” Collective Anti- deportation
Protests in Osnabrück . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Sophie Hinger, Maren Kirchhoff, and Ricarda Wiese
9 “We Are Here to Stay” – Refugee Struggles in Germany
Between Unity and Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Abimbola Odugbesan and Helge Schwiertz
10 “We Demand Our Rights!” The Refugee Protest Camp Vienna . . . . 205
Monika Mokre
Part V Restrictive Protest Against Asylum Seekers
11 Mobilization Against Refugees and Asylum Seekers
in Germany: A Social Movement Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Dieter Rucht
12 Protest Against the Reception of Asylum Seekers in Austria . . . . . . . 247
Miriam Haselbacher and Sieglinde Rosenberger
Part VI Conclusion
13 Protests Revisited: Political Configurations,
Political Culture and Protest Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Gianni D’Amato and Helen Schwenken
Glossary: Legal Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Contributors
Dina Bader is a senior scientific collaborator at the Swiss Forum for Migration

and Population Studies (SFM) at the University of Neuchâtel. She worked on the
research project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers”
at the University of Neuchâtel. Additionally, she has participated in several commis-
sioned research projects on immigration issues in Switzerland. After completing her
Master’s degree in sociology at the University of Geneva, she is now a PhD candi-
date in sociology at the University of Lausanne.
Gianni D’Amato is a professor at the University of Neuchâtel and director of the

Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (SFM). He led the Swiss
research team on the project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of
Asylum Seekers” at the University of Neuchâtel. Additionally, he is the director of
the National Center of Competence in Research on Migration and Mobility (nccr-
onthemove.ch) and a member of the Expert Council of German Foundations on
Migration and Integration (svr-migration.de). His research interests include citizen-
ship, mobilities, populism, and the history of migration.
Miriam Haselbacher is working as a university assistant in the Department of

Political Science at the University of Vienna, where she is also a PhD candidate. She
is a member of the research group INEX–Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion. Her
research interests include migration and integration policies, protest movements,
local politics, and Austrian asylum law.
Sophie Hinger is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Migration Research and

Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. She previously worked
as a teaching and research fellow in the Geography Department of the University of
Osnabrück and at Sussex University. Her academic interests, as well as her political
and social engagement, center on questions of migration and asylum, transnational
social movements, and intercultural learning.
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Maren Kirchhoff is a senior scientific collaborator at the Institute of Migration

Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS). After completing her Master’s degree in
global political economy at the University of Kassel, she worked at the International
Center for Development and Decent Work. Recently, she worked on the research
project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” at the
University of Osnabrück, where she is a PhD candidate. Her research interests
include critical migration and border regime studies.
David Lorenz is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Kassel.

After completing his Master’s degree in sociology and philosophy at the Goethe
University of Frankfurt am Main, he worked on research projects focusing on social
struggles concerning European migration regimes and deportations. He is a gradu-
ate researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main and a scholar
of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Nina Merhaut worked as a researcher on the project “Taking Sides: Protest against

the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” at the University of Vienna. She studied politi-
cal science and international development at the University of Vienna and the
University of Buenos Aires. Her research interests include migration and asylum,
protest and social movements, and the welfare state.
Monika Mokre is a political scientist and senior research associate at the Institute

of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is
also a political activist in the field of asylum and migration politics.
Abimbola Odugbesan holds a BSc in political science, as well as a National

Certificate in Education (NCE), and was a lecturer of social science and English in
Nigeria. He is a member of the refugee collective Lampedusa in Hamburg and one
of the initiators and participants of “Here to Participate,” a program for refugee
teachers. Odugbesan considers himself an activist and academic. His research
focuses on the emancipation of African women from patriarchy and the liberation of
Africa from neocolonialism.
Johanna Probst is a senior scientific collaborator at the Swiss Forum for Migration

and Population Studies (SFM) at the University of Neuchâtel. She completed her
Bachelor’s degree at the University of Nancy and obtained her Master and PhD at
the University of Strasbourg with a comparative analysis of the administrative asy-
lum procedure in France and Germany. She worked on the research project “Taking
Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” until 2017.
Sieglinde Rosenberger is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the

University of Vienna. She coordinated the DACH research project “Taking Sides:
Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” and was the principal investiga-
tor on the Austrian research team at the University of Vienna. She headed the
research project “Inside the Deportation Gap,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund
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(FWF), and has been the recipient of several research fellowships. Her main research
interests are migration and asylum, diversity in Europe, political participation,
Europeanization, and Austrian politics.
Dieter Rucht is a professor emeritus of sociology and a fellow at the Berlin Social

Science Center (WZB). From 2005 to 2011, he led the research group
“Zivilgesellschaft, Citizenship und politische Mobilisierung in Europa” (co-jointly
with Dieter Gosewinkel). Additionally, he held a professorship at the University of
Kent in Canterbury (1998–2000).
Didier Ruedin received his PhD at Oxford University and is now a project officer

and lecturer at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the
University of Neuchâtel and a visiting research fellow at the African Centre for
Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked on the
research project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers”
at the University of Neuchâtel. His research focuses on reactions to immigration and
diversity.
Helen Schwenken is a professor for migration and society at the University of

Osnabrück and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Migration
Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS). She led the German research team on the
project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers” at the
University of Osnabrück. She is also a member of the editorial board of the journal
Peripherie. Politik – Ökonomie – Kultur. Her research interests include labor migra-
tion, refugee studies, social movement research, and gender perspectives in migra-
tion studies.
Helge Schwiertz works at the Research Section Migration & Society of the

Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University
of Osnabrück. His PhD project “The Radical Democracy of Migratory Struggles”
focuses on the organization and political practices of migratory youth in Germany
and the United States. He is a member of the editorial board of Movements: Journal
for Critical Border and Migration Regime Research. His research interests include
migration and border studies, poststructuralist theory, radical democracy, and citi-
zenship studies.
Verena Stern is a doctoral researcher at PRIF and is working toward a doctorate at

the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She was previously a BMWFW doctoral
research fellow at the Austrian Centers in Edmonton, Canada, and Minneapolis,
USA. She studied political science at the University of Vienna, where she was a
researcher on the project “Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum
Seekers” and has worked as a lecturer. Her research interests include protest and
social movements, migration, political sociology, and political theory.