'Refugee Protest Camp Vienna': making citizens through locations of the protest movement. Issue 5 (3rd July 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Refugee Protest Camp Vienna': making citizens through locations of the protest movement. Issue 5 (3rd July 2016)
- Main Title:
- 'Refugee Protest Camp Vienna': making citizens through locations of the protest movement
- Authors:
- Ataç, Ilker
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The Refugee Protest Camp Vienna started in 2012 as a protest against the living conditions found within the biggest reception centre in Austria, and turned into a highly visible protest movement organized by asylum seekers and activists. In this paper, I investigate how and to what extent this protest movement, through a form of contentious politics, succeeded in challenging exclusionary policies and improving asylum seekers' rights and living conditions. By moving from socially and spatially isolated locations into the centre of the city, setting up a protest camp in a park, and by seeking shelter in a church, the protest movement generated different modes of resistance, forms of mobilization and collective action. In exploring the connection between spatial strategies of the protest movement and relational ties within the movement, I contribute to debates within Critical Citizenship Studies. Specifically, I emphasize the relevance of place for creating alliances and networks and for making citizens.
- Is Part Of:
- Citizenship studies. Volume 20:Issue 5(2016)
- Journal:
- Citizenship studies
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Issue 5(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 5 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0020-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 629
- Page End:
- 646
- Publication Date:
- 2016-07-03
- Subjects:
- Asylum seekers' protests -- contentious politics -- citizenship -- spatial strategies -- Austria
Citizenship -- Periodicals
Political participation -- Periodicals
Human rights -- Periodicals
Civil rights -- Periodicals
323.605 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccst20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/13621025.2016.1182676 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1362-1025
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- Legaldeposit
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