Elias Steinhilper

Elias Steinhilper is a doctoral candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence and currently Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. He works on networks of self-organized refugee activism in Europe, and is furthermore involved in various refugee solidarity initiatives in Germany.

Escaping from asylum to act as citizens: political mobilization of refugees in Europe

These forms of protest (except for the Sans Papiers movement in France) were for many years largely ignored by a wider public. This changed fundamentally in 2012.

By Elias Steinhilper and Ilker Ataç

/ 19 Sep 2016