Abstract
This article investigates the political activism undertaken by sub-Saharan West-African migrants residing in Hamburg. The article looks into political activism and resistance by exploring a politics of interference and emergence of new political subjectivities among African migrants. As stated by the refugees, they “did not survive the Nato war in Libya to die on the streets of Hamburg”. The struggle works on different scales. It is based on a critique of the EU asylum and control system, of the Italian management of the “refugee problem”, and of the local authorities of Hamburg. Furthermore, the article looks into how such political activism is diffused across local and national borders through local and transnational alliance-building.
Highlights
This article investigates the political activism undertaken by sub-Saharan West-African migrants residing in Hamburg
In this article I investigate the political activism undertaken by mainly sub-Saharan West-African migrants residing in Hamburg and how this activism has spread beyond the city and country
Using the notion of “politics of interference” I argue that the actions and interventions undertaken by the African migrants are generative of new political subjectivities, and disturb and rupture the political consensus and bring forth radical imaginaries for an inclusive and just society
Summary
This article investigates the political activism undertaken by sub-Saharan West-African migrants residing in Hamburg. Since the mobilization began in 2013, a connection has developed between LiHH and the Right to the City movement in Hamburg, which provides an example of expanding as well as re-scaling the struggle, both enabling the constitution of political subjectivities.
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