ABSTRACT
Protest never emerges in a vacuum, but is strongly shaped by sociopolitical contexts. Situating episodes ofprecariousness therefore requires scrutinizing the respective regulatory, discursive and social movement contexts in which marginalized actors mobilize. They influence both the arenas of migrant protest and the players acting therein. This chapter maps the context of precarious migrant protest in Germany and France, tracing the history of politicization of migration, the regulatory context of irregularity and asylum and the histories ofmigration-related protest in the two countries
