As she bridges practical solidarity, media activism, and other strategies, Fazila Bhimji builds a framework to show how these tactics interrelate, interrogating specifically if the fragmentation of strategies limits anti-racist struggles, or whether providing manifold outlets for a collective struggle helps to build solidarity.
Fazila Bhimji is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is the author of British Asian Muslim Women, Multiple Spatialities and Cosmopolitanism (Palgrave, 2012).
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Racialization of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in the Everyday in the German State.- Chapter 3: Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Tent Protests and Squatting: The Refugee Movement at Oranienplatz.- Chapter 4: Practical Solidarity, Encounters and Transformative Possibilities: A Case Study.- Chapter 5: Intersectional Feminist Solidarity and Activism amongst Refugees and Migrants at International Women’s Space.- Chapter 6: There is Empowerment in the Air: Media Activists Decolonize the Radio.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reconsidering Activism and Solidarity.
“The monograph offers the richest ethnography of the Berlin-based refugee movement to date. … the book is a must-read for all those interested in migration and refugee social movements and who think that fighting for a borderless world/movement is necessary struggle.” (Žiga Podgornik Jakil, Sociologus, Vol. 71 (2), 2021)