The welcoming of refugees and grassroot solidarity / Call for papers – EXTENDED DEADLINE [15.07.2022]

Within the scope of the Refinteg project[1], the University of Genoa and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS, Canada), in partnership with the Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale and Centro Studi Medì, are organizing the international conference “The welcoming of refugees and grassroots solidarity: state of research and best practices in Europe and Canada“.

The purpose of the conference is to explore current developments in refugee intake and solidarity practices in Europe and Canada through three main areas:

  • Politics of refugee reception
  • Welcoming and local solidarity
  • Private refugee sponsorship programs

In an effort to provide an open and multidisciplinary platform for dialogue, the organizers invite established and emerging scholars and practitioners to share their research and expertise in the field and welcome approaches from a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, sociology, anthropology, geography, law, political science and urban studies.

The conference language is English. Submissions should not exceed 300 words, and should be submitted along with a short biography of the author(s) by JULY 15, 2022 to ervis.martani@unige.it. Accepted proposals will receive a notification by July 15, 2022. Selected papers will be evaluated by the organizers for submission to a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. The final paper must therefore be submitted by October 15, 2022.

For further information please contact ervis.martani@unige.it


[1] This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 835466. The content of this publication reflects only the author’s view and the Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

L’abitare migrante. Nuovo libro di Enrico Fravega

Come abitano i migranti e, soprattutto, cosa influisce sui loro percorsi abitativi? Queste sono le domande dalle quali è partito il lavoro di ricerca che ha impegnato l’autore per tre anni.

L’idea che dà forma al testo è quella di legare una riflessione sullo sviluppo sociale, economico e urbanistico di uno spazio urbano con le biografie delle persone che nel corso dei loro percorsi migratori, a volte per periodi brevi, a volte per tutta la vita, hanno abitato e vissuto il medesimo spazio, contribuendo a dare forma alle nostre città.

Il testo si focalizza sulla complessità dei percorsi abitativi dei migranti in relazione alla precarietà del lavoro e alla sostanziale residualità del welfare abitativo italiano ed evidenzia le conseguenze sulle vite delle persone del nodo che lega strettamente la questione dell’abitare a quella dei documenti e a quella del lavoro. Inoltre, si sottolinea il ruolo del capitale sociale (contatti, relazioni, conoscenze, connessioni, ecc.) nella definizione della direzione dei percorsi abitativi.

Con l’ambizione di dare forma ad una narrazione corale, nelle sue pagine una selezione dei racconti di vita abitativa raccolti è stata riportata integralmente; in modo da permettere al lettore di farsi una propria idea delle questioni trattate e, al tempo stesso, di ridare, attraverso la testimonianza scritta, un “diritto alla parola” e alla rappresentazione della propria condizione che, nella nostra società, i migranti non hanno.

Prefazione a cura di Luca Queirolo Palmas. Post-fazione a cura di Paolo Boccagni.

How do migrants inhabit and, more importantly, what influences their housing pathways? These are the research questions from which stemmed the research work which has engaged the author for three years.

The idea that gives shape to the text is to link a reflection on the social, economic and urban development of an urban space with the biographies of people who in the course of their migratory paths, sometimes for short periods, sometimes for a lifetime, have inhabited and lived in the same space, contributing to form our cities.

The text focuses on the complexity of migrants’ housing pathways in relation to the precariousness of work and the substantial residual nature of the Italian housing welfare, highlighting as well the consequences on people’s lives of the knot that closely links the issue of housing to that of documents and that of work. It also emphasizes the role of social capital (contacts, relationships, knowledge, connections, etc.) in defining the direction of housing pathways.

In an effort to shape a choral narrative, in its pages a selection of the collected life stories have been integrally reported; so as to allow the reader to get his or her own idea of the issues dealt with and, at the same time, to give back, through written testimony, a “right to speech” and representation of their condition to migrants that, in our society, normally do not have.

Preface by Luca Queirolo Palmas. Afterword by Paolo Boccagni.

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Underground Europe / Book presentation in Lisboa (12.07.2022)

Luca Queirolo Palmas and Federico Rahola will present their latest work in Lisboa, July 12, 2022, at 5:30 p.m.; at the Livraria da Travessa. They will discuss with Jayne Mooney and David Brotherton – professors of Sociology at the Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and editors in chief of the journal Critical Criminology.
Chairing the meeting will be Thais França, Fellow Researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at Lisbon University Institute (Iscte-IUL), Portugal.

Luca Queirolo Palmas e Federico Rahola presenteranno il loro ultimo lavoro a Lisbona, il 12 luglio 2022, alle 17.30, presso la Livraria da Travessa. Con loro diiscuteranno Jayne Mooney e David Brotherton, professori di Sociologia al Jay College of Criminal Justice di New York e direttori della rivista Critical Criminology.
A presiedere l’incontro sarà Thais França, Fellow Researcher presso il Centro di ricerca e studi di sociologia (CIES-Iscte) dell’Istituto universitario di Lisbona (Iscte-IUL), Portogallo.

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