Abstract
NGOs/NPOs are expected to be fundamental to civil society, yet people sometimes doubt whether volunteer activities can promote a neoliberal reconstruction of society. However, these activities cannot always promote change in concert with neoliberalism. We know there are activities against neoliberalism and the support of undocumented migrants is one of them. Undocumented migrants are regarded as a "risk" and excluded from society. This trend is considered a part of the neoliberal reconstruction. In opposition to this trend, it is useful to know how activists who support undocumented migrants imagine their solidarity with them. Thus, this paper discusses how activists experience ties with migrants and imagine their solidarity with them. This study shows that the activists imagine this solidarity in various ways, based on their own contexts. We see them from these viewpoints. Though individual imagination cannot, without exclusion, include all undocumented migrants, activists tend to include all migrants by using plural imaginations when viewing them. This is to say that activities in support of undocumented migrants as a whole can help to performatively imagine a solidarity with all undocumented migrants.
