Overview

Solidarity without Borders examines the politics of migration at the ground-level, considering migrants not as an issue to be solved but as individual political agents, exploring the possibilities raised by alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organizations, and other constituencies. Applying Gramsci’s theories of modern resistance and taking up the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social movements in Ireland, and the Lampedusan Libyan migrant group as case studies, Solidarity without Borders demonstrates how new solidarity relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common ground for developing political alternatives. Óscar García Agustín is associate professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is coeditor of Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers, Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of Democratic Transformation, and Politics of Dissent. Martin Bak Jørgensen is associate professor in the Department for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.