PRECLAB

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1. Group name (in original language):

PRECLAB

2. City/geographical area:

Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cardiff, London

3. Short description (including brief history):

Militant research network involved in activism and co-research related to precarity/labour struggles, gender politics, and migration

4. Type of group: (e.g. assembly of several groups, trade union, magazine/alter media, social centre, militant research group, immigrant support group, queer action group etc.):

Militant research group

5. Issues addressed (e.g. migration, call centres, care, universities etc.):

Network activism in the intersections of precarity and antiracist/border politics, academic research, gender politics, media and culture production.

6. Repertoire of practices (e.g. direct action, information & assistance, support, performances etc.):

Political events; organisation of seminars and conferences; co-research and radical research methods; mapping; media and text production; films; translations; organising (eg precarious security workers in Hamburg).

7. Initiatives and open political processes:

EuroMayDay in Germany and the UK; Kostenrebellieren II conference in Hamburg; Frassanito process on migration and border activism in Europe; autonomous spaces/European Social Forum; Association for Legalisation in Germany.

8. Struggles you are involved or you know in your city (if possible, including contact):

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9. Networks in which the group is participating and/or links with other groups:

Kpd: kleines postfordisches Drama, Berlin; Frassanito network; Transitmigration Project; The Square Social Center, London; FFM: Forschungsgesellschaft fuer Flucht und Migration, Berlin; Diktyo space, Athens; Second day of action process against camps in Europe; ESF, Athens; kanak attak, Germany; EuroMayDay initiative in Hamburg, Berlin, London; Umsonst group, Hamburg; Avanti, Hamburg; Attak, Germany; Solidarity Collective, London; sofo group, Frankfurt; Transkontinentalen Krankenkasse Network, Hamburg; Blauer Montag, Hamburg; no one is illegal network; nextGeneration.

10. Brief explanation of involvement in the MayDay mobilizations:

Co-organisation of the local mobilisations in Hamburg, Berlin, London

11. Research developed (in case you have any, present the issues and method):

mapping atypical work conditions in Hamburg; queer subjectivities; topographies of work in Frankfurt; gender relations and immaterial labour; visual studies of migration; culture production and media activism; autonomy of migration; project transitmigration/migmap; precarity in the arts industries in Cardiff; illegal migration and border crossing in South-eastern Europe; precarious labour: subjective impact and implications for public policy; the transformation of sovereignty and the politics of exodus.

12. Contact e-mail:

Berlin: kara@niatu.net; Cardiff: a.ehrenstein@gmx.de; Frankfurt: thomas@kein.org; Hamburg: efthimia@gmx.de; London: papadopoulosd@cf.ac.uk

13.Website and/or weblog:

PRECLAB, Susannenstr. 14d, 20357 Hamburg, ph +49 40 41548465, fax +49 40 41548467, http://www.preclab.net