Migrants' Collective Action

A Temporal Approach
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6783-6
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

Adopting an interpretivist approach, this book examines how highly diverse migrant constituencies coalesce into collective formations that mobilize as migrants.

With a focus on three Italian cities, Naples, Rome and Bologna, this book utilises a unique approach to understanding migrants’ mobilizations by integrating Social Movement studies and Critical Studies of migration with a focus on temporality. Investigating biographical trajectories, collective memory, and identity-building processes, it reveals the invisible dynamics that occur between visible mobilizations and beyond migration experiences. Readers gain insights into how participants construct shared social pasts and negotiate collective identities, both in public representation and political belonging.

Migrants’ Collective Action is essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers in migration studies, social movements, and urban studies. It is particularly relevant for those exploring the intersections of temporality, identity, and collective action, as well as practitioners working with migrant communities.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adami, Angela

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Why a temporal approach to migrants’ collective action 1. Political biographies: tracing trajectories to political engagement 2. The dilemma of the past: assembling collective memory ‘from scratch’ 3. Political belonging beyond migration Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Adami is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Her current research explores forms of resistance and protest around total institutions in times of democratic backsliding, with a specific focus on migrants’ detention. As a member of the Centre on Social Movement studies (COSMOS), she conducts research on social movements, migration, memory and biographical studies. Her research has been published in Italian and international scientific journals.