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Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by ""illegal"" and displaced peoples.

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Author:   Katarzyna Marciniak ,  Imogen Tyler
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781438453101

ISBN 10:   1438453108
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   02 July 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Immigrant Protest: Noborder Scholarship Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler I. The Aesthetic Performance of Immigrant Protest 1. Dare to Wear-a Mosque! Immigrant Protest as Cross-Cultural Pedagogy Azra Aksamija 2. The Politcal Aesthetics of Immigrant Protest Rozalinda Borcila with Katarzyna Maricniak and Imogen Tyler 3. Becoming British: Exploring Citizenship through Arts Practice Lena Simic with Imogen Tyler 4. Border Disorder Alexa Rivera with Katarzyna Marciniak 5. Loving the Alien: Indigenous Protest and Neo-Colonial Violence in James Cameron's Avatar Bruce Bennett 6. Pedagogy of Rage Katarzyna Marciniak II. In the Field: Acts of Immigrant Protest 7. On Israel/Palestine and the Politics of Visibility Simon Faulkner 8. Everyday Acts of Resistance: The Precarious Lives of Asylum Seekers in Glasgow Teresa Piacentini 9. Pushing the Boundaries of Asylum: Everyday Resistance in Swedish Clandestinity Maja Sager 10. Subjects that Matter? Nonidentitarian Strategies of Pro-""Migrant"" and ""Migrant"" Protest in Germany Petra Rostock 11. Gender and the Politics of Anti-Racist and Immigrant Protest in Greece Alexandra Zavos 12. Immigrant Protest and the Courts of Women Marguerite Waller 13. Migrant Resistance and the Anti-Raids Campaign in London 2012 Anti-Raids Campaign Coalition 14. Afterword: The Human Waste Disposal Industry or Immigrant Protest in Neoliberal Times Imogen Tyler and Katarzyna Marciniak Notes on Contributors Index"

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...an absolutely crucial text. The first collection of its kind, Immigrant Protest brings together essays on an incredibly diverse set of immigrant protest strategies in an equally diverse set of contexts. - H-Net Reviews (H-Citizenship)

Author Information

Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies at Ohio University. Her books include Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference and Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Imogen Tyler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University in England and the author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain.

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