“We Belong Together!” Collective Anti-deportation Protests in Osnabrück

Hinger, Sophie; Kirchhoff, Maren; Wiese, Ricarda

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74696-8_8

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“…While insider views and case studies (e.g., Mokre 2018;Hinger et al 2018) can provide more detailed and in-depth knowledge of certain protest incidents and their organization, a protest event analysis provides a more comprehensive picture of trajectories, variations, and dynamics of protest. It allows us to systematically analyze various dimensions of protest activities (Koopmans and Rucht 2002;Caiani et al 2012).…”

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“…These are instances where (rejected) asylum seekers protest against deportation and asylum policies. Examples include the Sans-Papiers movement in France (McNevin 2006), A Day without Immigrants in the US (De Genova and Borcila 2011), the Refugee Camp Vienna in Austria (see Mokre 2018), as well as refugee protests in Osnabrück, Germany (see Hinger et al 2018) and Lausanne, Switzerland. Such refugee protests have been described as a consequence of the increase of border control and security measures (Nyers 2007).…”

Section: Self-interest Versus Solidarity Protestmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tracing Anti-deportation Protests: A Longitudinal Comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Ruedin¹,

Rosenberger²,

Merhaut³

2018

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Objective: Trace and characterize anti-deportation protests in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland between 1993 and 2013. Methods: Systematic analysis of media reports of anti-deportation protests. We manually coded 6419 article about 986 protest events. Results: The frequency of anti-deportation protest has increased in Austria and Germany, but not so in Switzerland. Many different kinds of actors are involved in anti-deportation protests, and most commonly these are actors who protest on behalf of those threatened with deportation. These actors come from across the political spectrum, and protest is predominantly local in nature. In the three countries, repertoires of protest vary, but demonstrations are the most common form. In 59% of cases, the focus is on policy reform, and in 41% of cases the focus is on a specific deportation. Conclusion: Much of the protest against deportations seems to take place relatively independent of a transnational movement that may have gained traction in the past few years.

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Section: Self-interest Versus Solidarity Protestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tracing Anti-deportation Protests: A Longitudinal Comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Ruedin¹,

Rosenberger²,

Merhaut³

2018

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“…If conflicts arise, the Immigration Authority is dependent on the local police, subordinated to the state Ministry of the Interior, to enforce the deportation order. This divided authority may open up the scope for direct action against deportation (see Hinger et al 2018). 12 The German cases analyzed in the remainder of the book (see Hinger et al 2018;Kirchhoff et al 2018) occurred before 2015/2016.…”

Section: Administrative Decision-making Authoritymentioning

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“…This divided authority may open up the scope for direct action against deportation (see Hinger et al 2018). 12 The German cases analyzed in the remainder of the book (see Hinger et al 2018;Kirchhoff et al 2018) occurred before 2015/2016. For an overview on policy changes in 2015/2016 see Pichl 2017.…”

Section: Administrative Decision-making Authoritymentioning

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Between Illegalization, Toleration, and Recognition: Contested Asylum and Deportation Policies in Germany

Kirchhoff

Lorenz²

2018

IMISCOE Research Series

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Despite the late acknowledgment of Germany being an "immigration country", migration has been a heated topic throughout the last few decades, with peaks in the late 1980s, the early 1990s and the mid-2010s. This time has been marked by an increasing Europeanization of policies concerning asylum and deportation. Policy developments in this field are thus influenced by political debates and struggles both on the national as well as the supranational level. These controversies and multilevel politics have resulted in a contradictory mixture of restrictive regulations regarding the admission of migrants, as well as increased possibilities for residence. Regulations regarding deportations show a similar ambivalence.The aim of this article is to contextualize contentions over asylum and migration in Germany during the last few decades. We first review literature as well as (policy) documents, campaign materials, and statistics, in order to describe the development of Germany's asylum and deportation policies. After this general context, which is central to understanding the protests analyzed in this book, we illustrate the decisionmaking authority over asylum, deportation, and stay as specific points of reference for protests. Finally, we sketch the broader protest culture in order to further contextualize contention around asylum and deportations.

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“…In the Osnabrück case, for example, the creation of personal ties in order to break the isolation of asylum seekers confined to their accommodation was a central element of the local protest movement. Forming friendships and knowing the deportees was essential for the constitution of a local protest movement that aimed to reverse the public invisibility of asylum seekers (see Hinger et al 2018).…”

Section: Trajectories Of Protest and Their Explanationsmentioning

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Protests Revisited: Political Configurations, Political Culture and Protest Impact

D’Amato

Schwenken

2018

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Migration and asylum issues are an important and contested policy field (van der Brug et al. 2015;Cinalli 2016). Migratory movements affect the issue of state sovereignty as much as they change societies. The modes of contestation and politicization, however, vary and change through cycles of attention and within different national and local contexts. This book brings together new empirical research on a set of three protest types: first, solidarity protests, second, refugee self-organized protests and third, mobilizations against newly arrived refugees in three countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. By looking at supportive, self-organized, and counter movements, we expect to provide a nuanced portrait of contemporary bottom-up mobilizations and contestations in the field of refugee and migration policies. In line with social movement studies, this study on political protest takes as its starting point the assumption that grassroots activism, civil disobedience, resistance, lobbying efforts, and more traditional forms of claims-making and politics together constitute an important policy field and are co-constitutive for an adequate understanding of modern democratic governance. However, it is not easy to decipher how such co-constitutive processes work and whether and how bottom-up mobilizations have an impact (Giugni et al. 1999) on societal debates, the governance in the field of asylum, migrant and refugee reception, and their inclusion. In order to investigate these and other issues with the necessary thoroughness, the volume's contributions

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“We Belong Together!” Collective Anti-deportation Protests in Osnabrück

Cited by 82 publications

References 24 publications

Tracing Anti-deportation Protests: A Longitudinal Comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Tracing Anti-deportation Protests: A Longitudinal Comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Between Illegalization, Toleration, and Recognition: Contested Asylum and Deportation Policies in Germany

Protests Revisited: Political Configurations, Political Culture and Protest Impact

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