ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the circumstances in which migrant protests may perform acts of cosmopolitan citizenship and become instances of a radical cosmopolitics. It explores some of the specific repertoires, morphologies and spatial strategies of migrant protests and the ways in which they are related with protests of non-migrants. The chapter discusses the vernacular and fragile processes of cosmopolitan subjectivization within migrant protests, against the background of pervasive methodological nationalism. It explains the radical cosmopolitan dimension of migrant protests and describes it at the intersection of mobility, cosmopolitan subjectivity and radicalism. Migrants' autonomy of gaze is inherently fragile and precarious–as the vernacular cosmopolitan condition itself. Migrant activism is a cosmopolitan transformative experience for participants and cosmopolitanism from the bottom up and a cosmopolitan action and practice. The apparent failure of migrant activism comes from the perspective of the citizen which is the norm of theories of migration, which theorize the migrant as a problem that needs solving.
