Race, Bordering and Disobedient Knowledge

This book examines the everyday struggles and activism arising from the racialised injustices and bordering practices characteristic for today's European countries. Unlike most social movement literature, the book brings together analyses of antiracist activism and migrant (solidarity) mobilisations, as well as centring everyday struggles rather than protests or mass demonstrations. It elaborates theoretically and empirically how disobedient knowledge is created by racialised minorities and postcolonial migrants living their lives at the crossroad of different kinds of (b)ordering practices, as well as from the often disharmonious and sometimes painful negotiations between differently positioned actors in the everyday struggles of activism, antiracism practices, migrant and solidarity movements, and collaborative research. Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge detects the processes through which border regimes and ordering into racialised, classed and gendered hierarchies are connected to each other, reinforced and challenged in antiracist and migrant (solidarity) activism. It examines resistance and disobedience in the context of social movement practices, art and culture, education and learning, legal and administrative bordering, global coloniality and racial capitalism. It is essential reading for scholars and students in sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international migration, social movement studies, gender studies and education.