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Author Fontanari, Elena

Title Lives in Transit : an Ethnographic Study of Refugees' Subjectivity Across European Borders
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series Studies in Migration and Diaspora Ser
Studies in Migration and Diaspora Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Endorsement; Table of contents; Foreword; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Preface; Note; Introduction; Beyond migration and refugee studies: the mobility lens; Border as a dynamic process; Subjectivity: looking at power from the perspective of the subjects; An ethnography on the move: the structure of the research and the book; Notes; Part I The historical context; 1 Asylum on the move: The humanitarian-security border regime in Europe; 1.1 Where does the 'refugee' come from?
1.2 The 'refugee' and the 'economic migrant': two global regimes for the government of human mobilities1.3 The foundations of Schengenland: 'illegal' mobility and the process of securitization; 1.4 The humanitarian turn: erosion and depoliticization of asylum; 1.5 The Dublin Regime: a temporary mobility, stuck and under control; 1.6 Governing mobility: between humanitarian and security measures; Notes; 2 A turbulent.sea: From the Arab Spring to the Berliner Herbst; 2.1 A Mediterranean mosaic: migrants' routes and EU borders
Producing images of crisis: Libya, Lampedusa, and the sub-Saharan migrants2.2 The year 2011: 'Arab Spring', Libyan war, and the emergency regime in Italy; Into the ENA: waiting and struggling in uncertainty; 2.3 Displacing Lampedusa: the Oranienplatz protest and 'Lampedusa in Berlin'; Breaking the isolation of the German asylum system; 2.4 Yesterday's barbarians against today's barbarians; Notes; Part II The ethnographic journey; 3 Temporalities: Fragmented mobility and disrupted time in the everyday lives of refugees; 3.1 Transitaly: no country for mobile-migrant man
Milan, the gateway to Northern Europe: city of arrivals, transits, and further departuresFragmented lives in the reception system in Milan: waiting, turning around, and queuing; Shadows on the move across Italy: fragmented circuits; 3.2 Berlin, Open City?; Voices emerging from the shadows: the Oranienplatz protest; Adrift on the Berliner island: the Oranienplatz (dis)Agreement; The politics of dispersal: de-collectivization, invisibilization, and filtering through the lists; 3.3 Errant orphans: the effects of policies of abandonment and control; Notes
4 Interstices: Living between and beyond the borders4.1 Categories on the move, mobilities between categories; Abandoning Italy: turbulent trajectories heading North; Renewing documents: back-and-forth trajectories between Italy and Germany; 'Disrupted citizens': the ambiguity of legal status and the omnipresence of internal borders; 4.2 Dwelling in transit: places of border enforcement and refugees' autonomous practices; Invisible places: transit sites as crossroads of migrant mobilities; Contested places: bordering practices and zero-tolerance.zones
Notes 4.3 Territorial, juridicial, and political interstices
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