ABSTRACT
In May 2008, three sans-papiers collectives occupied the Bourse de Travail in Paris, the headquarters of the CGT trade union. This was the start of one of the largest precarious migrant protests in recent French history. The sans-papiers protested against the trade union push for leadership in a movement previously self-organized by migrants. Analyzing the interactive dynamics in these protests, the chapter carves out a key aspect of such precarious mobilizations: the fragility of ties both between migrants and allies as well as within heterogeneous precarious migrant collectives.
