Infrapolitical mobilities: Precarious migrants and resistance to European rules of mobility

Precarious migrants must cope with various restrictions and exceptional policies while challenging anti-migrant images and crisis discourses. Using the concept infrapolitical mobilities, this article draws attention to minor acts that resist and/or navigate the constraints imposed by the racialization and criminalization of migrant (im)mobilities. We emphasize the agency and practices performed by migrants and their allies, that, intentionally or not, challenge mobility rules related to expulsability, transient (im)mobilities, and insecure livelihoods. Our attention to infrapolitics of mobility exposes not only how mobility rules often work in practice, but also how they are resisted, negotiated, and reshaped by apparently minor acts that have unintended political effects of co-producing mobility rules.