Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception

<p>Recognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law “inside these borders” Kathleen R. Arnold focuses on two main forms of migrant protest to explore the meaning of resistance in a sovereign context: self-harming protest by detainees and faith-based sanctuary of individuals scheduled for detention.</p><p>This activism creates a “democratic state of exception” interrupting the legal process altering discretionary forms of sovereign power and enacting rights not formally granted; these efforts go beyond the assertion of liberal rights or merely restoring the rule of law (even if these are also goals) challenging the warfare state while constituting a demos that is formally illegible.</p><p>Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception will be of interest to scholars migrant advocacy professionals (including INGO and IGO officers) graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in a variety of fields from legal studies to forced migration and refugee studies political science human rights protest history and contemporary movements.</p>