The South-Eastern Triangle: The Spatio-Historical Context

Abstract

Athens, Nicosia and Istanbul share a fascinating past of mobility. The study of migrant social movements in the three cities opens up a much broader terrain than an area-specific terrain, regarding social movements, migration and digitality. Beyond the dichotomy between “old” and “new” social movements, we examine the emergence of germinal social movements. Frequently these are accompanied by moral panics, but not necessarily so. The three arrival cities where subaltern migrants, along with other subalterns, deploy their strategies and praxes of social movements; they in turn, chart out new socialities, new spatialities and reshape new citizenship modes.