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As European countries throw up their walls and clamp down on refugees and migrants, the latter are increasingly responding with peaceful resistance.  (...) "It is when subalterns react and rebel against the rules of hegemonic groups that the system responds more powerfully. It happened recently with the ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ movement, which was formed in March 2013 as a direct response of a group of refugees from the Libyan war to a number of German and European laws. About 300 refugees coming from Italy openly challenged the limits to free movement imposed by the Dublin Regulations that prevent them to move to, stay and work in another European country than the one they first arrived in. In Hamburg, the group came together and began to organize a protest movement. The group has since engaged into a fundamental and vital struggle for their own right to stay and, indeed, for the rights of all asylum seekers, refugees and migrants to freely decide where to move, live and work. Their slogan — ‘We are here to stay!’ — directly challenges the still widespread idea that asylum seekers and refugees are only here on a temporary basis. ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ became the principal driving force behind numerous public demonstrations, solidarity initiatives and social and political events organized with the support of local movements and advocacy groups and sustained by broad segments of civil society."  (...) http://roarmag.org/2014/07/lampedusa-hamburg-europe-refugees/&#160;