Illustration: Petja Dimitrova. All rights reserved.This series of articles focuses on the collective actions by refugees, migrants and solidarity groups, struggling for citizenship and social rights as well as the right to move and to stay, highlighting different aspects of protest activities and mobilizations.
We are publishing these articles now, one year after the ‘long summer of migration’ when refugees by the hundreds made their way on foot by marching in different European countries. They became political subjects and gained visibility by enacting their claims and sharing their own stories.
However, in discussing the collective actions around the events of summer 2015, public discourse and research analyses tend to focus on welcome initiatives and counter-movements that take action against refugees. In doing so, they ignore some essential aspects of collective action around migrants and refugees: protest activities by solidarity groups and migrants as well as refugees’ mobilizations for self-organized action.
