Fiorenza Picozza is a researcher and activist who has been involved in refugee solidarity in different European locations for about a decade. She holds a PhD in Geography from King’s College London.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Coloniality of Asylum: ‘Race’, ‘Refugeeness’ and ‘Europeanness’Chapter 2. Solidarity as Method: On the Intractable Coloniality of Asylum EthnographiesChapter 3. The Blackmail of the Crisis: Volunteering with Refugees in Transit and the Politics of ‘Civil Society’Chapter 4. Here to Stay: Autonomous Movements Across Europe between Incorrigibility and RefugificationChapter 5. The Battleground of Asylum: Navigation, Co-optation and SabotageChapter 6. Thresholds of Asylum: ‘Refugeeness’, Subjectivity and the Resistance to the ‘Coloniality of Being’Chapter 7. Refugees Welcome? The Production of Whiteness within Visual, Moral and Social Economies of SolidarityConclusion: Consuming the Pain of RefugeesReferencesAbout the Author

In The Coloniality of Asylum, Fiorenza Picozza offers a new ethnographic study of autonomous border struggles in Hamburg, Germany, looking at how ‘the coloniality of asylum’ not only permeates the European border regime, but can also shape the various solidarity initiatives that seek to contest and trangress it. With the aim of contributing to ‘an anticolonial political imagination that can sustain daily struggles against the asylum regime’, this book is a politically committed, empirically and theoretically rich account that raises the question of who exactly is the subject of refugee solidarity in Europe.