Beyond the camp: border regimes, enduring liminality and everyday geopolitics of migration in Italy and Spain

Objective

Despite the fact that migration figures do not support calls to emergency, the European political discourse is still highly dominated by the idea of a “refugee crisis”, a concept on which several right-wing parties have built their political capital. BeCAMP’s main goal is to analize migration management in two countries of first arrival, Italy and Spain, in order to investigate how the migrants’ reception system, on the one hand, and the daily coping strategies of these subjects living inside or at the edges of such system, on the other, shift accordingly to the variations of politics and policies. By bridging the three key topics of border regimes, enduring liminality and everyday geopolitics, the proposed project aims at offering a well-informed, ethnographically rooted account of the life within and at the fringes of the Italian and Spanish migrants’ reception system, in order to counterbalance the dominant hate narrative and help build more human rights oriented policies.

Fields of science

• social sciences › political science › political communication
• social sciences › law › human rights
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migration

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-GF - Global Fellowships

Coordinator

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA

Address

Dorsoduro 3246
30123 Venezia
Italy

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU contribution

€ 269 002,56

Partners (1)

THE NEW SCHOOL CORPORATION

United States

Address

Fifth Avenue 80 Fl 4
10011 New York

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments