In this important book, Vicki Squire upends our understanding of the international by asking who and what constitutes the political. Decentring states and citizens, Squire provides an alternate account of political subjectivity that is grounded in the lived experience of migrants, their struggles but also their refusals, resistance, and demands for a politics otherwise.

- Nivi Manchanda, Queen Mary University of London,

Vicki Squire's exploration of how precarious migrants assert their political subjectivities is a powerful and deeply reflexive reconfiguration of our usual frames of reference. In revealing the multiple ways that migrants navigate the constitutive violence of their condition – sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly, always carefully – she opens up new ways for all of us to consider what it means to be a political subject.”

- Debbie Lisle, Queen’s University Belfast,