ABSTRACT
Resisting rigid migration trajectories is a complex and ambiguous project. The chapter presents two different modes of resistance. One is based on a specific practice where a retired Norwegian bishop insisted on hiring an irregular migrant to clean his home. Another practice is the poetic activity by the late Danish–Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan. Hassan's poetic voice reclaims space and awareness for his way of life. He is not acting on behalf of someone, he just proclaims. The chapter discusses the two different ways of resistance in discussion with Bruno Latour. Latour distinguishes between modernists and nonmodernists in the area of ecoresistance. In the present chapter, this distinction is applied to the migration area. The author claims that both the bishop and the poet aim at humanizing practices beyond the secular-religious binary. Only Hassan presents a decolonial voice which decenters empire in the act of poetic action.
