Modulo di Sociologia

 

Elena Fontanari, Maurizio Ambrosini (2018), Into the Interstices: Everyday Practices of Refugees and Their Supporters in Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’, in Sociology, June 2018

This article investigates the interconnections between migration to Europe for asylum and the multiple ‘crises’ of the border regime that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on 22 months of ethnographic research with refugees in Italy and Germany, the article highlights the tensions between migration policy and legislation at the structural level and the agency of refugees. The case study focuses on a protest staged by refugees in Berlin and the active involvement of its civil-society supporters. [read more]


Tazzioli, M. (2017). Containment through mobility: migrants’ spatial disobediences and the reshaping of control through the hotspot system. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-16.

This article deals with the modes of (contested) control that are at play at the Mediterranean frontier for containing, dividing and discipling unruly mobility. Building on ethnographic research conducted on the island of Lesvos and of Lampedusa, it focuses on the implementation and the functioning of the Hotspot System in Greece and in Italy, analysing beyond the fences of detention centres and by looking at the broader logistics of channels, infrastructures and governmental measures deployed for regaining control over migration movements. [read more]

Chiara Marchetti, (Un)Deserving Refugees: Contested Access to the 'Community of Value' in Italy, in Europe and the Refugee Response A Crisis of Values? By Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main, Brigitte Suter, Routledge

 

This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. [read more]