Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception

Recognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law "inside these borders.", Kathleen R. Arnold focuses on two main forms of migrant protest to explore the meaning of resistance in a sovereign context: self-harming protest by detainees and faith-based sanctuary of individuals scheduled for detention.

Autorentext

Kathleen R. Arnold is Director of the Refugee and Forced Migration Program at DePaul University. She is a political theorist who has written extensively on statelessness, displacement, and poverty. This is her sixth single-authored book.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 Understanding migration policy as foreign policy

2 Self-harming protest

3 Faith-based sanctuary: Creating spaces of democratic exception

4 Sovereignty and counter-sovereignty: Is democratic sovereignty possible?

Conclusion: States of democratic exception: migrant agency and resistance to the warfare state

Index