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This chapter pursues the inception of 'realisable utopias' in response to disheartening dialectics of grand utopian and dystopian narratives. It deconstructs dominant discourses on 'migration crises', situating them within a broader conjuncture of racial capitalism, neo-liberal austerity, and extractivist coloniality. It analyses the suppression of post-2008 emancipatory movements and covert co-optation of civil society in migration governance. In concert with grounding arguments of the present book, the author reinterprets refugee crises as sites of hegemonic predicaments, foregrounding radical imaginaries, autonomous zones, and grassroots solidarity in terms of counter-hegemonic defiance. Engaging neo-Gramscian post-colonial frameworks, the chapter explores insurgent migrant activism in the context of a tendential NGOisation of 'civil society', and points at an intricate intersection of 'invented' versus 'invited' spaces. It suggests the value of a controversial concept of 'uncivil society' for analysing commoning solidarity networks, autonomy-centred alternatives and transversal alliances, reimagineering migrant incorporation beyond extractivist logics and state violence.

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