Contentious Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation

In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and - as this book argues - its practice has become increasingly contentious. Intersecting crises have sharpened social and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent.

Building upon social movement and migration studies, this book maps the two s...