Refusing Refusal constricting and confining; 144 making migrants move and circulate, creating uncertainty and spatial confusion. 145 For Martina Tazzioli, asylum seekers claim rights such as that of deciding where to stay and move 146 — ‘place-rights’ — and perform what Tazzioli calls ‘spatial disobedience’ or ‘resistance’. 147 Manifestations (primarily) organised by stateless Palestinians in different Swedish cities throughout the spring and summer of 2020 formulated these claims by having a public presence, actively seeking engagement and creating awareness. Showing their presence through visibility in public spaces, such acts represented a claiming of space, 148 a ‘right of presence’ 149 and a refusal to accept the status of exclusion 150 or the construction of conduct implicated by and through the migration regime. Demonstrations were organised outside the SMA and Riksdagen, which claimed the right to stay and be present. Additionally, Ahmed’s individual strategy, to place his residence outside the SMA accommodation, was a means to illustrate his bodily presence. This was a refusal of passivisation and a struggle ‘to make life possible in a place that did not want them’. 151 CONCLUDING REMARKS: THE REFUSAL OF THE REFUSED Mechanisms of governmentality and conduct shape the political agency of stateless people who use different resources and tactics to impact decision-making. Of course, not all stateless or precarious migrants engage in resistance. However, manifestations of migrant collective and individual struggles and rights-claims have become increasingly visible in the Swedish political arena in recent years and in relation to legal changes. Mechanisms of exclusion, requirements of submissiveness and temporal and spatial constraints contribute to a migratory regime that evokes statelessness, aggravates its precariousness and produces a new form of neglected statelessness on the margins. This article has highlighted how stateless Palestinians resist the constraining aspects of the migration regime. Stateless Palestinians assert their right to a self-acclaimed identity as Palestinian refugees. Using the presence of a larger Palestinian diaspora in Sweden, asylumclaimants place their stories of refuge in the larger narrative of Palestinian displacement. Temporal strategies of resistance are related to how time is used in order to place oneself more firmly in the Swedish context. Hoping and waiting is a way to assume temporal control, rather than be passively waiting. Rather than accepting passiveness, stateless people use protesting/disobeying through demonstrations and manifestations of different forms and strategic alliances with primarily Palestinian communities in Sweden, but also through the more shocking action of 144 Tazzioli, The Making of Migration (n 15). 145 ibid. 146 Martina Tazzioloi, ‘Containment through Mobility: Migrants’ Spatial Disobediences and the 147 148 149 150 151 Reshaping of Control through the Hotspot System’ (2018) 44(16) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2764. ibid. But see Stierl (n 2). Cathy A Wilcock, ‘Hostile Immigration Policy and the Limits of Sanctuary as Resistance: Counter-Conduct as Constructive Critique’ (2019) 7(4) Social Inclusion 141, 141. But see Judith Butler, Notes Towards a Performative Assembly (Harvard University Press 2015). Stierl (n 2) 13. 285