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Aegean archipelago
asylum seekers
Author_Ludek Stavinoha
border abolitionism
border regime
borders
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Closed Controlled Access Centres
community
criminalization
digital
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Europe
forthcoming
Greece
hostile environment
humanitarianism
migrants
Migration
policy
protest
public sphere
publics
refugee camps
resistance
solidarity
surveillance
volunteers
Product details
- ISBN 9781526183088
- Weight: 479g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Unruly Subjects takes readers to the heart of Europe’s escalating border struggles: the Aegean islands, where thousands of ‘undesirable’ migrants have been confined and abandoned in EU-funded camps. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, Ludek Stavinoha reveals the hidden spaces where resistance forms and solidarity grows, tracing migrants’ daily efforts to claim dignity and rights alongside grassroots volunteers who have built essential support networks. Central to the book are the creative, precarious, and often ambivalent solidarities forged between volunteers and refugees, citizens and non-citizens, as they challenge racialised boundaries and state-sanctioned control. Urgent and compelling, Unruly Subjects shows how people navigate and subvert Europe’s increasingly hostile border regime and highlights the alternative imaginaries of justice and possibility that emerge from their struggles.
Dr Ludek Stavinoha is Associate Professor in Media and Global Development at the University of East Anglia
