ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at migrant protests as expressing a form of civil disobedience, and attempts to clarify what one is invoking against the law of the state given migrants’ peculiar position. Thus, cosmopolitanism serves as a crucial variable to understand migrant civil disobedience of the state law. The chapter distinguishes between three cosmopolitanisms of migrant protests: a cosmopolitanism of law and human rights, a cosmopolitanism of inclusion and hospitality, and a cosmopolitanism of freedom of borders. The first two forms are a weak cosmopolitanism, sometimes risking disappearing into the more pressing need of integration into the host country, while the third form has a revolutionary cosmopolitan potential, because the enacting of the right to cross borders is both a shift in political reality and has a deeply performative character of an enacted cosmopolitanism.
