migrants Refugee Status? I'd rather not, thank you! Migrants' (pre)occupations and the racialised approach adopted all along the Central Mediterranean Route. While Italy has become one of the main access gate to Europe, a large part ⋙
election Niger's Game of Thrones The high stakes of the 2016 presidential elections. “Me against my brother; but me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against our neighbours; and ⋙
Arab Spring Finding Another Tunisia Field notes from the social protests in Kasserine. Despite the imaginaries projected by mainstream media, the new wave of protests unfolding in Tunisia has little to do with political Islam. ⋙
migrants Would-be Refugees and Migrants as Tourists in Tuscany's Mugello The fallacious nature of the Italian hosting system for migrants and asylum seekers. Micro-level, decentralised Accoglienza Diffusa is the predominant approach to the ‘management’ of the migratory flows from the ⋙
asylum seeker Tahriib, Titanic, and Residence Permit Seekers Old and new Somali migrations flows to Europe, between voluntary and forced relocation. Drawing from field work at the local Somali community based in Florence (Italy), in this post I ⋙
neofascist mafia Rome Rome, a Criminal World-in-Between An unprecedented probe shows that the città eterna has been shadow-governed for years by a clique of neofascists and mafiosi, and that it may not be willing to understand why. ⋙
construction Narratives of Disembarkation What made Lampedusa a security frontier and Italy a country being invaded. Over the past 3 years the media coverage on boat migrants and Lampedusa’s landings has shaped and ⋙
