Publications
Key project publications
Books
Pajnik, Mojca; Schwiertz, Helge; della Porta, Donatella; Bernhardt, Franz; Ribać, Marko (Hg.) (2025): Framing Solidarities in Times of Multiple Crises: Social Movements across European Cities, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schwiertz, Helge; Donatella della Porta; Martin Bak Jørgensen; Mojca Pajnik; and Sarah Schilliger (2026): Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity: Urban Struggles on Migration, Housing and Care in Europe, Bristol University Press.
Schwiertz, Helge (forthcoming): Horizontal Citizenship. Leiden, Boston: De Gruyter Brill.
Special Issue
Jørgensen, Martin Bak; Maaroufi, Mouna; Schwiertz, Helge (forthcoming): Imagining and Commoning Social Infrastructures: Urban Movements and Everyday Politics, Special Issue, Urban Studies.
Handbook
ECSEuro & EA Berlin (2025): We Care, We Move, We Stay – A Handbook of Transversal Solidarity. https://europefrombelow.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/We-Care-We-Move-We-Stay-A-Handbook-of-Transversal-Solidarity.pdf
Articles and chapters
Abram, Sandi; Bernhardt, Franz; Flückiger, Natascha; Hofstetter, Joana Lilli; Maaroufi, Mouna (2025): Cooking, Caring, and Commoning: Grassroots Community Kitchens Across Five European Cities, Urban Planning 10, article 10145. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.10145
Bernhardt, Franz; Schwiertz, Helge (2025): Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: linking activist, active and community citizenship, Citizenship Studies, 29(1–2), 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2025.2470742
Maaroufi, Mouna; Schwiertz, Helge (2025): Between Solidarity Cities and Local Migration Controls: Ambivalence and Fragmentation in the Field of Migrant Rights, In: Bauder, H., Setrana, M.B. (Eds.) Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection – Volume 2. IMISCOE Research Series, Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95151-0_6
Mojca Pajnik; Marko Ribać (2025): Emotional Solidarity: Social Movement’s Framing of Migration, Social Movement Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14742837.2025.2470240
Schwiertz, Helge (2025): Horizontale Citizenship. Eine Revision politischer Subjektivität anhand urbaner sozialer Bewegungen, Leviathan 53 (2), 184–209. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-0425-2025-2-184
Videos
Roundtable: Enacting Solidarity and Citizenship at Urban Scales with Dona- tella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence), Margit Mayer (TU Berlin), and Martin Bak Jørgensen (Aalborg University), October 10, 2024
Horizontal Citizenship and Solidarity. How Urban Movements Create Alternative Ways of Being Political by Helge Schwiertz (University of Hamburg)
Publications by the team members on project-related issues
Abram, Sandi (2023): Squatting and Direct Urban Space Care: The Case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC), Traditiones 52(1), 139-163. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520107
Abram, Sandi; Bajič, Blaž (2024): Sensory Gentrification in the Most Beautiful City in the World, Ethnologia Fennica 51(2), 85-111. https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v51i2.141830
Adami, Angela (2024): Beyond the Eternal Present of Migration. Time and Biographies in Migrants’ Collective Action, Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2024.2434043
Adami, Angela (2025): Making Family: Racialized Migrant Women and the Formation of Chosen Political Families in Collective Action. American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642251357700
Agustín, Óscar. García; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (Eds.) (2026): Radical Imagination on Migration in a Turbulent Era. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Agustín, Óscar. García; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2025): Commoning Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity Beyond Capital, Borders, and Sameness, Social Inclusion 13, article 9220.
Atac, Ilker; Schilliger, Sarah (2022): Civil Society Organisations Engaged with Illegalised Migrants in Bern and Vienna: Co-Production of Urban Citizenship, In: Martin Bak Jørgensen & Carl-Ulrik Schierup (Eds.): Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility, Leiden: Brill, 324-353.
Bernhardt, Franz (2023): Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement. The Geographical Journal 00, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12560
Bernhardt, Franz (2026): Fellow minorities? Left-wing nationalism, refugee activism, and a detention camp in Wales, In: Óscar García Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen (Eds.): Radical Imagination on Migration in a Turbulent Era. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 81-92. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336883.00013
della Porta, Donatella (2022): Contentious Politics in Emergency Critical Juncture: Progressive social movements during thpandemic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
della Porta, Donatella (2022): Progressive Social Movements and the Creation of a European Public Sphere, Theory, Culture & Society 39(4), 51-65.
della Porta, Donatella (2024): Framing and building the commons: Social movements and solidarity economy, In: Fernandes Esteves, Ana Margarida; Henfrey, Tom; Lucas dos Santos, Luciane; Leal, Leonardo (Eds.): Solidarity Economy – Alternative Spaces, Power and Politics, New York: Routledge.
della Porta, Donatella; Lavizzari, Anna (2022): Framing Health and Care: Legacies and Innovation during the Pandemic, Social Movement Studies, 10.1080/14742837.2022.2134109
della Porta, Donatella; Rosenkranz, G. B., (Eds.) (2025): Feminist Movements in Time and Space: A European Perspective. London: Palgrave.
Flückiger, Natascha; Maaroufi, Mouna; Schilliger, Sarah (2024): Lokale Care-Infrastrukturen von unten als Antwort auf strukturelle Sorglosigkeiten, In: Bescherer, Peter; Griesi, Elettra; Künkel, Jenny; Mackenroth, Gisela (Eds.): Der Bewegungsraum und die Soziale Frage. Reihe «Raumproduktionen», Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 30-48.
Jørgensen, M. B. (2023): Solidaritet i krise: Civilsamfundsaktivisme under“ flygtningekrisen“, In: Paradigmeskiftets konsekvenser: Flygtninge, stat og civilsamfund, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 303-323.
Jørgensen, M. B. (2024): Deportable Mobilities: The Many Lives of the European Deportation Regime. In The Crisis-Mobility Nexus, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 25-46.
Jørgensen, M. B., & Fischer, L. (2024): Rethinking Mobility Regimes at the Local Scale: Possibilities and Limitations, In: The Crisis-Mobility Nexus, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 47-65.
Jørgensen, Martin Bak & Carl-Ulrik Schierup (Eds.) (2022): Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2023): Autonomous and civic solidarity practices towards irregular migrants in Europe, In: van Liempt, Ilse; Schapendonk, Joris; Amalia, Campos-Delgado (Eds.): Research Handbook on Irregular Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 327-336.
Maaroufi, Mouna (2023): Kämpfe um Autonomie und Commons des Ankommens: Urbane Infrastrukturen und Infrapolitiken der Arbeitsvermittlung, sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 11(1/2), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v11i1/2.832
Maaroufi, Mouna (forthcoming): Everyday refusal of racial capitalism: Unsettling logistics of forced migration and labour in Germany, Manchester University Press.
Markel, Leja; Mojca Pajnik (2025): Trans-thematic Action: Contemporary Feminist Mobilizations in Slovenia, In: della Porta, Donatella; Rosenkranz, Giada Bonu (Eds.): Feminist Movements in Time and Space: A European Perspective, London: Palgrave, 195-224.
Pajnik, Mojca, Fabijan, Emanuela (2023): The transversal political logic of populism: framing the refugee crisis in Slovenian parliamentary debates, Europe-Asia studies 75(5), 742-768. 10.1080/09668136.2022.2151979
Salifu, Mashudu; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2025): Formal and Informal Solidarity Infrastructures in Copenhagen and Accra, Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection 2, Cham: Springer, 75-92 18 s. (IMISCOE Research Series, Bind Part F755).
Schilliger, Sarah (2022): Co-Producing Urban Infrastructures of Solidarity. Comment on Homberger et al., ‘Local Responses to Migrants with Precarious Status – Negotiating Inclusive Practices in Cities Across Europe’, In: Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung – Journal of Migration Studies, 2(2), 137-139. https://doi.org/10.48439/zmf.177
Schilliger, Sarah (2022): Städtische Care-Infrastrukturen zwischen Küche, Kinderspielplatz und Kita, In: sub/urban – zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung, 10(2), 171-183. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v10i2/3.818
Schilliger, Sarah (2023): Soziale Bewegungen als transformative Akteure im Schweizer Integrationsregime, In: Pineiro, Esteban; Kurt, Stefanie; Streckeisen, Eva; Mey, Peter (Eds.): Soziale Arbeit und Integrationspolitik in der Schweiz, Seismo 2023, 275-293.
Schilliger, Sarah (2023): Wie Solidarität fabriziert wird: Der Aufbau einer städtischen Infrastruktur der Solidarität gegen rassistische Polizeikontrollen, In: Stiehler, Steve et.al. (Eds.): Solidarität heute. Modeerscheinung oder nachhaltiger Gesellschaftswandel? Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verlag, 135-152.
Schilliger, Sarah (2024): Breaking out of the ‘prisoner of love’ dilemma: Infrastructures of solidarity for live-in care workers in Switzerland. In: Aulenbacher, Brigitte; Lutz, Helma; Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa; Schwiter, Karin (Eds.): Home Care for Sale. The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe, SAGE, 278-292.
Schilliger, Sarah; Atac, Ilker (2023): Urbane Infrastrukturen der Solidarität: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und illegalisierte Migrant:innen in Bern und Wien, In: Atac, Ilker; Gunther, Simon; Homberger, Adrienne, Kirchhoff (Eds.): Lokale Antworten auf aufenthaltsrechtliche Prekarität. Zugänge zu Gesundheitsversorgung, Unterbringung und Bildung, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich, 189-208.
Schilliger, Sarah; Schwiter, Karin; Steiner, Jennifer (2023): Care Crisis and Care Fixes under Covid-19: The Example of Transnational Live-in Care Work, Social & Cultural Geography 24 (3-4), 391-408.
Schubert, Karsten; Schwiertz, Helge (2023): Identitätspolitik aus konstruktivistischer Perspektive. In: Politische Grundbegriffe im 21. Jahrhundert, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 389-412.
Schwiertz, Helge (2022): Fluchthilfe, In: Inken Bartels et.al. (Eds.): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe, www.migrationsbegriffe.de/fluchthilfe (mit Katarzyna Winiecka)
Schwiertz, Helge (2022): Radical Democratic Theory and Migration. The Refugee Protest March as a Democratic Practice, Philosophy & Social Criticism 48(2), 289-309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453721996398
Schwiertz, Helge (2023): Foucaultsche Perspektiven auf Gesellschaft und Migration. Polarisierte Welten, In: Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld 2022, 41.
Schwiertz, Helge (2024): Figures of Migration in the Classical Sociologies of Marx, Weber, and Du Bois, Sociological Theory 42 (4), 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751241292095
Schwiertz, Helge (2024): Foucauldian perspectives on migration and society: The epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population”, European Journal of Social Theory (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241284891
Schwiertz, Helge; Karakayalı, Serhat (2026): Gesellschaft der Migration. Zur sozialtheoretischen Revision einer kontroversen Wissenspraxis. Bielefeld: transcript.
Schwiertz, Helge, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Ilker Ataç, Robin Vandevoordt, Sophie Hinger & Susanne Spindler (2023): Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration, In: Geopolitics, 10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732
Schwiertz, Helge; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2025): Social theory and migration research in dialog, European Journal of Social Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251320264
Smrdelj, Rok; Pajnik, Mojca (2022): Intersectional Representation in Online Media Discourse: Reflecting Anti-Discrimination Position in Reporting on Same-Sex Partnerships, In: Gender, Technology and Development, 26(3), 463-484. 10.1080/09718524.2022.2144100
Thiele, Daniel/Pajnik, Mojca/Sauer, Birgit/Šori, Iztok (2023): Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia, Journal of Language and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22026.thi