The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue:
many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and …

This book explores the border-crossing mobilities of refugees within Europe. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork in Germany and Italy, it examines the precarious everyday lives of …

Acknowledgements Page 1 Acknowledgements This book represents the main output of the
research project entitled “PUMOMIG – Public opinion, mobilizations and policies concerning …

This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil
society, in treatment of the issue of refugees' reception. It suggests the concept of “de …

The present exercise is a provisional effort to dedicate serious critical reflection to a variety
of keywords operating within contemporary discourses of power and resistance, which …

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 …

There is considerable variation in how countries deal with the presence of migrants lacking
a legal right to stay. We present an analysis of the post-arrival migration enforcement …

This open access book provides an alternative theoretical framework of irregular migration
that allows to overcome many of the contradictions and theoretical impasses displayed by …

This paper examines municipal responses to restrictive national policies by focussing on
welfare provision for non-removed rejected asylum seekers. Using an analytical framework …

Irregular migration is a multifaceted, dynamic phenomenon that has attracted
disproportionate media and political attention since the early 2000s. It has been at the …