»We Are All Activists«: Exploring Solidarities in Activism By, With and For Refugees and Migrants in Hamburg

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Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneously, refugees and migrants tend to be seen through their (supposed) legal status. Thus, they are neither practically nor conceptually regarded as activists. The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists experience and deal with. She moves beyond dichotomies and engages in transversal dialogue. Cover Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Activism by, with and for migrants in Hamburg 2.1 We’ll Come United—Anti‐racist parade in Hamburg (September 29, 2018) 2.2 Positionality 3. Methodology 3.1 Philosophical background and relevant methodologies 3.1.1 Activist and participatory methods 3.1.2 Ethnomethodologies or ethnographic research 3.2 Constructivist grounded theory 3.2.1 Data generation 3.2.2 Data analysis 3.3 Practical implementation 3.3.1 Field and case selection 3.3.2 Constructivist GTM 3.4 Ethics 4. Migrant rights activism as a research subject: Conceptual approaches and relevant literature 4.1 State‐of-the‐art: How migrant rights movements are being studied 4.1.1 Migration studies 4.1.2 Critical Citizenship studies 4.1.3 Social movement studies 4.2 Identifying gaps and consolidating my own approach 4.2.1 Four sensitizing concepts sorting the field 4.2.2 Identified gaps in the literature 4.2.3 Setting the stage: Conceptualizing solidarities 5. Negotiating Solidarities: Empirical findings 5.1 Feeling the Need to Be Political 5.2 Experiencing the Self Through Collectivity 5.3 “We Are All Activists” 5.4 Making the Social Political 5.5 Solid Fluidity of Alliances 5.6 “We Have Not Finished” 5.7 Summary of the storyline 6. Discussion: Exploring Transversal Solidarities in migrant rights activism 6.1 Intersection of differences: how inequalities challenge solidarities 6.2 Variety in activities: how everyday politics build solidarities 6.3 Ambivalence of success: how relationalities negotiate solidarities 6.4 Summary: Exploring Transversal Solidarities 7. Some practical thoughts 8. Conclusion List of literature