Migration as anti-fascist movement? Rethinking the question of solidarity

Migration as a movement in the dual sense – as actual cross-border mobility and as political struggle – has fundamentally transformed social relations and how solidarity is to be conceptualised.

In this talk, Robin Celikates first expands on this understanding of migration and the standpoint it implies for rethinking social relations in a transnational register, and then argues that migration undermines and provides a political counter-force to fascist and authoritarian projects of homogenisation and separation, which deny and renounce those forms of transnational association. In this way, migration can prefigure forms of transnational solidarity that promise a more adequate response to the fact that we are already associated and challenge the identitarian-communitarian pseudo-solidarity underlying the current resurgence of fascist forces across the globe.

Meet our speaker and chair

Robin Celikates is Professor of Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Centre for Social Critique Berlin. He also serves as co-chair of the Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) and co-editor of the journal Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Duke UP). Among his publications are Critique as Social Practice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and Analyzing Ideology (OUP, forthcoming, co-edited with Sally Haslanger), as well as articles on disobedience, migration, and racism in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of International Political Theory, New German Critique, and Jacobin.

Ayça Çubukçu is Associate Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she served as the Co-Director of LSE Human Rights for six years (2018-2024). Before her appointment at the LSE, Dr Çubukçu taught for the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University.

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