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
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).
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