Scholarly interest in undocumented migrants’ struggles over citizenship has surged in recent years. Critical, theoretically inspired scholarship on the political has embraced these struggles as evidence that the current order can be disrupted. However, empirical studies of undocumented activism in the United States and Europe have revealed that pressures to conform to dominant norms and discourses, representational oligarchies and categorical fragmentation can lead activists to reproduce rather than disrupt the order. The papers in this symposium aim to advance this discussion by comparing the findings of case studies of undocumented immigrant struggles around the world. In this introduction to the symposium, we argue that disruption and reproduction constitute two logics of collective action that continually express themselves in immigrant rights mobilisations. We present a framework that outlines how undocumented activists navigate both logics in their ongoing quest to construct subjects, acts and spaces capable of disrupting the status quo.

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无证移民行动主义与政治：破坏秩序还是再现现状？

近年来，对无证移民在公民身份方面的斗争的学术兴趣激增。对政治的批判性的，理论上启发性的学术研究已经将这些斗争包括在内，以作为当前秩序可能被破坏的证据。但是，对美国和欧洲未记录在案的激进主义进行的经验研究表明，遵循主流规范和话语，代表性寡头政治和绝对分裂的压力可能会导致激进主义者再现而不是破坏秩序。本次研讨会上的论文旨在通过比较世界各地无证移民斗争的案例研究结果来推进这一讨论。在研讨会介绍中，我们认为，破坏和再生产构成了集体行动的两种逻辑，这些逻辑在移民权利动员中不断表达自己。我们提出了一个框架，概述了未记录在案的激进分子如何在其正在进行的寻求构造能够破坏现状的主题，行为和空间的过程中同时遵循两种逻辑。