Unruly subjects offers a rigorous and nuanced ethnographic account of grassroots humanitarianism. Through attention to everyday practices of care, solidarity, and resistance, the book exposes the tensions, limits, and possibilities of bottom-up humanitarian action to challenge dominant narratives of depoliticized and paternalistic intervention and to disrupt the operation of supposedly orderly border regimes. This work is an important contribution to contemporary debates on migration, humanitarianism, and the politics of solidarity. Katerina Rozakou, Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
We are witnessing an intensifying global war on migration: border fortifications are expanding, migration routes are increasingly deadly, and acts of solidarity face growing criminalization. Yet such measures have not prevented people from crossing borders or contesting exclusionary legal regimes. Unruly subjects provides a richly grounded account of how migrants and non-migrants forge practices of solidarity, resistance, and hope in the Greek archipelago. This book makes an important and timely contribution to scholarship on migration, borders, and humanitarianism. Shahram Khosravi, Professor of Anthropology, Stockholm University -- .
