Mathilde Du Jardin (Université Libre de Bruxelles) – visiting PhD at Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale during February-March 2022

Mathilde du Jardin, a PhD student in criminology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, during February-March 2022 is visting PhD at Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale. She is member of the Research Centre « Pénalités, Sécurités & Déviances », and she is conducting a research about the criminalization processes of solidarity with undocumented people in Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom. The project has started when citizens mobilized in large numbers to help migrants in transit and homeless in Brussels, provoking a break with the federal government policies and leading to a symbolic trial called “le procés de la solidarité”. Her fields of research are the sociology of deviance and migration, and more specifically the phenomenon of criminalization of immigration in Europe. She is interested in participatory methods and ethnographic research approaches.  

Mathilde du Jardin, dottoranda in criminologia all’Università libre de Bruxelles, durante febbraio-marzo 2022 è visiting PhD al Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale. Membro del centro di ricerca « Pénalités, Sécurités & Déviances », sta conducendo una ricerca sui processi di criminalizzazione della solidarietà verso i migranti undocumented in Italia, Belgio e Regno Unito. Il suo progetto nasce quando i cittadini si sono mobilitati in massa per aiutare i migranti in transito e senzatetto a Bruxelles, segnando una rottura con la politica del governo federale e portando a un processo simbolico chiamato “le procés de la solidarité”. I suoi campi di ricerca sono la sociologia della devianza e delle migrazioni, e più in particolare il fenomeno della criminalizzazione dell’immigrazione in Europa. È interessata ai metodi partecipativi e agli approcci di ricerca etnografica.

“Si la terre tourne, tu tournes avec elle”. Una nuova produzione video/A new video production

Georges Kouagang è un collaboratore del Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale proveniente dal Camerun. Un richiedente asilo che è arrivato in Italia attraverso il Mediterraneo. Salvato da una nave dell’ONG “SOS Mediterranée” e sbarcato al porto di Pozzallo; trasferito, poi, a Genova, Georges dopo alcuni anni dal suo arrivo, ritorna in Sicilia insieme ad alcuni ricercatori del Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale e, rivivendola, racconta la sua storia. La sua testimonianza è diventata “Si la terre tourne”: un nuovo documentario di Massimo Cannarella, basato su una ricerca di Luca Queirolo Palmas, Federico Rahola, Jacopo Anderlini e Luca Giliberti.

“Si la terre tourne, tu tournes avec elle” è disponibile al seguente link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PyyflsclNA

Georges Kouagang is from Cameroon and collaborates with the Visual Sociology Research Group. He is an asylum-seeker who arrived in Italy through the Mediterranean Sea. He has been rescued by a ship of the NGO “SOS Mediterranée”, then he landed at the port of Pozzallo. Subsequently he has been transferred to Genoa. After several years from his arrival in Italy, Georges returns to Sicily together with some researchers of the Visual Sociology Reseearch Group and, while re-experiencing it, he gives shape to his story. His account has become “Si la terre tourne”: a new documentary by Massimo Cannarella based on a research led by Luca Queirolo Palmas, Federico Rahola, Jacopo Anderlini, and Luca Giliberti.

“Si la terre tourne, tu tournes avec elle” is available at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PyyflsclNA

borderscape, migrations

Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena joins Disfor and becomes a resident member of Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale

Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena has joined Disfor (Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione) of the University of Genova. Juan Pablo is an anthropologist specialising in the policy analysis of European Union border areas. In his research on European borders he has incorporated elements from other disciplines, such as philosophy or sociology, and from different sub-disciplines, such as legal anthropology, symbolic anthropology and, of course, the anthropology of migration processes. Juan Pablo has published in high-impact journals and books, analysing various border locations such as Ceuta, Calais, Ventimiglia, and on “refugee camps”, such as in Greece in Katsikas. In collaboration with the filmmaker Nicolás Braguinsky Cascini, he directed the documentary film “Solidarity Crime: the borders of democracy”. The documentary is based on his doctoral research and focuses on the criminalisation of illegalised migrants and the people who have shown solidarity with them. It has been screened at several international documentary film festivals (in Caracas, Barcelona, Geneva, Leuven…). It has also received the critics’ and public awards at the “Tulipani di Seta Nera” 2021 Festival in Rome, and the Persecutedaward at the XIII edition of the Festival dei Diritti Umanidi Napoli. The collaboration between Juan Pablo and Nicolás has continued, and they are currently working on a documentary project on the participation of Colombian exiles in the transitional justice process in Colombia, through the first Truth Commission that incorporates testimonies from the diaspora. The project is funded by ICIP. Juan Pablo got in touch with the Laboratorio di SociologiaVisuale joining the first school of visual and filmic sociology (“Prima Scuoladi Sociologia Filmica e Visuale”) coordinated by Prof.Luca Queirolo Palmas. Subsequently, during his PhD, Juan Pablo was part of the European project GOVDIV — Multilevel governance of cultural diversity in a comparative perspective: EU and Latin America (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES. Marie Curie Actions- International Research Staff Exchange Scheme – IRSES) in which DisFor also participated. Now, as a post-doctoral researcher, and as a beneficiary of the grant “Ayuda para la recualificación del sistema universitario español” he joins our team, and we’re glad to welcome him on board!

Welcome!

E’ uscito un nuovo numero monografico di “Mondi Migranti” / A new monographic issue of “Mondi Migranti” is out (eds. Luca Giliberti, Swanie Potot)

Mondi Migranti, 3/2021 – Migrazioni, frontiere, solidarietà (editors: Luca Giliberti, Swanie Potot) –
https://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Sommario.aspx?IDRivista=149

Nella contemporanea “crisi dell’accoglienza” il supporto dal basso ai migranti in transito, in particolare nei luoghi di blocco come i nodi di confine, assume un ruolo centrale in relazione alla mobilità verso e all’interno dell’Europa. La
parola “solidarietà” – concetto fondativo delle scienze sociali ma poco esplorato negli ultimi decenni – diviene oggi nozione di riferimento nella vita quotidiana delle borderlands europee, oltreché di un’emergente letteratura scientifica che prende forma all’interno degli studi migratori. Questo numero monografico della rivista Mondi Migranti, con contributi in italiano e in francese che analizzano tali pratiche su diversi nodi di confine in Europa, intende partecipare all’incipiente articolazione di nuove prospettive di ricerca su migrazioni e frontiere attraverso le lenti della solidarietà.

In the contemporary “reception crisis”, grassroots support for migrants in transit, especially in blocking sites such as border nodes, assumes a crucial role in relation to mobility towards, and within Europe. The word “solidarity” – is a founding concept in the social sciences, yet scarcely explored in recent decades, now becomes a reference notion in the daily life of European borderlands, as well for an emerging scientific literature taking shape within migration studies. This special issue of the journal Mondi Migranti, containing contributions both in Italian and in French, focuses on such practices in different border nodes across Europe, meaning to participate in the incipient articulation of new research perspectives on migration and borders through the lens of solidarity.


Indice:
Usages et mésusages de la notion de solidarité en contexte migratoire. (Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart)
Verso i solidarity studies. Nuove prospettive di ricerca su migrazioni e
frontiere. (Luca Giliberti, Swanie Potot)
Sui confini della rotta balcanica: pratiche di solidarietà ai migranti e
processi di criminalizzazione. (Graziella Marturano)
Sanctuary cities in Francia? L’accoglienza dei migranti nel Paese basco.
(Annalisa Lendaro, Thomas Sommer-Houdeville)
La solidarietà in frontiera: le reti di supporto ai migranti in transito in Val
di Susa. (Luca Giliberti, Davide Filippi
Féministes et quêteuses d’asile : une lutte commune ? Une enquête dans les
Alpes-Maritimes (Pinar Selek)
La criminalisation du sauvetage dans la mer Égée. Le cas de l’ONG PROEM-AID. (Juan Pablo Aris Escarcena)


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