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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
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Traiskirchen, Austria,July 2015.Ilker Ataç. Own photo. 2015 will enter the history books as the year of the (erroneously termed) “refugee crisis”, pulling forced migration out of a niche in public debates and academia into the mainstream. Despite the issue’s prominence, it is mostly journalists, aid workers and policy makers who speak about refugees, largely muting the voice of those taking risks while escaping war-torn or economically desperate areas.

The (in-)visibility of refugee mobilizations in Europe

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