Collective Action and the Refugee Crisis

This part analyzes, through qualitative and quantitative data, the protest events related to the so-called refugee crisis that is taking place since 2015. From a comparative perspective, it aims at mapping the wide set of actions and initiatives that are being created in solidarity with refugees that made the journey to the European Union to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. We focus on these cases from the perspective of social movement studies and of the sociology of migration. The research includes related issues, such as the development of counter-hegemonic frames and social coalitions during critical junctures, the mobilizations in support of (or by, but also against) refugees, the interaction of these events with the economic crisis and the war-on-terrorism discourse, the knowledge produced by social movements, the emotional as well as cognitive dimensions of the campaigns, as well as their impact on party politics in the different countries and at the transnational level.

Researchers who are contributing to this part include:

• Javier Alcalde, who is conducting research on France/UK, the European level and Spain
• Massimiliano Andretta, who is conducting a protest-event analysis
• Semih  Çelik, who is conducting research on Turkey
• Jochen Kleres, who is conducting research on Sweden
• Chiara Milan, who is conducting research on the ex Yugoslavian countries and Austria
• Leonidas Oikonomakis, who is conducting research on Greece
• Elena Pavan, who is conducting a protest-event analysis
• Andrea Pirro, who is conducting research on Hungary
• Martin Portos, who is conducting a protest event analysis
• Lorenzo Zamponi, who is conducting research on Italy