Publications
Key project publications
Books
Pajnik, Mojca/Schwiertz, Helge/della Porta, Donatella/Bernhardt, Franz/Ribać, Marko (eds) (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. 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,and Mouna Maaroufi (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, 1–18. 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
Horizontal Citizenship and Solidarity – Helge Schwiertz:
Enacting Solidarity and Citizenship at Urban Scales – D. della Porta, M. Mayer, M. B. Jørgensen, M. Pajnik:
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: Jørgensen, Martin Bak; Schierup, Carl-Ulrik (eds): Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility. 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: Agustín, Óscar García; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (eds): Radical Imagination on Migration in a Turbulent Era. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 81-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336883.00013
della Porta, Donatella (2022): Contentious Politics in Emergency Critical Juncture: Progressive social movements during thpandemic, Cambridge University Press.
della Porta, Donatella (2022): Progressive Social Movements and the Creation of a European Public Sphere, In: Theory, Culture & Society 39(4), 51-65.
della Porta, Donatella (2024): Farming and building the commons: Social movements and solidarity economy, In: Ana Margarida, Fernandes Esteves; 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, In: Social Movement Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2134109
della Porta, Donatella; Rosenkranz, G. B. (eds) (2025): Feminist Movements in Time and Space: A European Perspective, Cham: 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; Schierup, Carl-Ulrik (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; Schapendonk; 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; Rosenkranz (eds): Feminist Movements in Time and Space: A European Perspective, Cham: 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2022.2151979
Salifu, Mashudu; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2025): Formal and Informal Solidarity Infrastructures in Copenhagen and Accra, In: Bauder, Harald; Setrana, Mary Boatemaa (eds): Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection – Volume 2: Global Perspectives of Sanctuary, Solidarity, and Hospitality, Cham: Springer, 75-92.
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’, 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. 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; Kurt; Streckeisen; Mey (eds): Soziale Arbeit und Integrationspolitik in der Schweiz, Zürich, Genf: Seismo, 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; Lutz; Palenga-Möllenbeck; Schwiter (eds): Home Care for Sale. The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing, 278-292.
Schilliger, Sarah; Atac, Ilker (2023): Urbane Infrastrukturen der Solidarität: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und illegalisierte Migrant:innen in Bern und Wien, In: Atac; Gunther; Homberger; 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, pp.389-412.
Schwiertz, Helge (2022): Fluchthilfe, In: Inken Bartels et.al. (eds): Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe. www.migrationsbegriffe.de/fluchthilfe (with 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; Jørgensen, Martin Bak; Ataç, Ilker; Vandevoordt, Robin; Hinger, Sophie; Spindler, Susanne (2023): Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration, Geopolitics 29(2), 714-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732
Schwiertz, Helge; Jørgensen, Martin Bak (2025): Social theory and migration research in dialog, European Journal of Social Theory. 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, Gender, Technology and Development 26(3), 463-484. https://doi.org/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 23(2), 176-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22026.thi
Podcasts
Franz Bernhardt was interviewed for the episode „The Future of Community Housing“ of the Canadian podcast „Demystifying Community Housing“ about alternative models of community housing, 26 June, 2024.