ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that while the migration regime aims to push undocumented migrants into invisibility, to silence their voices, to tame their bodies and to let them live in a constant state of fear, this does not deprive migrants of their capacity to rebel and to struggle. It explains that living in squatted buildings has been used by undocumented migrants as a tool of protest to gain visibility. For years, sewing the lips, hunger strikes, setting fire to one's body have expressed acts of protest occurring daily both in foreign detention centers and on the streets of Europe. Most of these practices relate to one's body: when every aspect of one's life is criminalized, the only weapon undocumented migrants have left is their own body, and often, the power over their own death. However recently a new mode of protest started emerging in many Western European countries, including the Netherlands, Germany and Italy namely collectively squatting unused buildings.
