Ignacio Fradejas-García and Kristín Loftsdóttir. “Mobility Cause Lawyering: Contesting Regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands Migration Route to Europe.” Critique of Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 4 (2024): 533-552.
This article explores cause lawyering as a form of resistance against restrictive European Union (EU) mobility regimes, focusing on the 2020–21 migration crisis in the Canary Islands. It examines how lawyers and allied actors—such as ombudsmen, activists, and migrant families—challenge arbitrary and exclusionary migration policies. Through ethnographic analysis, the study highlights how these actors strategically use human rights and legal mechanisms to navigate bureaucracies, secure access to legal services, and contest unjust rules. By emphasizing collective legal action, the article reframes migrant resistance as a shared, organized effort rather than an individual struggle.