Cura e controllo al confine: scritturazioni e pratiche del sapere medico negli hotspot

Anderlini, Jacopo

doi:10.3280/mm2018-002004

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“…What emerges from these multifaceted and multiscalar assemblage is a shifting set of intermittent, fitful circulations. Similarly to what characterized border management and in particular the hotspot approach between 2015 and 2020 (Anderlini, 2018), the management of migration during the pandemic embodies also the humanitarian discourse and imperative of “saving lives” in its organization of human mobilities, instituting new distinctions and classifications between the “healthy” and the “contagious” to further partition populations, mixing already established divisions of race, class and gender with public health concerns. This form of governance (Fassin, 2007) articulates additional mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, distinguishing between who must be protected, conflating them with national security discourse: the “safety of the population” (Foucault, 2009) coincides with stricter controls of state borders and the possible complete isolation of the national territory from outsiders.…”

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“…The security of the circulations is primarily undertaken through the operation of the border, with its selection of migrant mobilities. This operation works creating spaces of exception, where the sovereign grasp is suspended and other imperatives and rationalities are followed – such as the conflation of humanitarian and securitarian reasons in the case of the hotspots (Anderlini, 2018) or, more recently, the quarantine ships. Simultaneously it works through the implementation of biopolitical apparatuses, as emerges from the digitization of border controls, the diffuse surveillance and the datafication of bodies (Amoore & Hall, 2009; Glouftsios & Scheel, 2021).…”

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Fitful circulations: Unauthorized movements in the Sicilian transit zone

Anderlini

2022

International Migration

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The region of Sicily, in the south of Italy, has been at the centre of diverse contemporary migration movements since the 90s. This has made it an ideal setting for experimentation of new border control devices and procedures at the EU level. This article analyses the constellation of migrant circulations – local and seasonal, trans‐local, transnational – characterizing this area, considering them as the product of border configurations, (g)local markets (agriculture, tourism) and migrant's agency. The scenario has been deeply affected by the current Covid‐19 pandemic which transformed global supply chains, local economies and migrant labour, producing a selection of mobilities due to public health reasons. This contribution is based on a multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork I have been conducting since 2016 in the Sicilian region, which has continued through the pandemic, from the hotspot border apparatus of Pozzallo to the sites of seasonal informal agricultural work as Cassibile, Ragusa area and Campobello di Mazara. What comes to light from the field is a complex sketch, in which migrants’ movement is the outcome of contrasting drives to push, block, divert and accelerate. I define fitful circulations the result of the friction between the economic need to let move labour power commodity and the sovereign push to select, contain or exclude living labour on the basis of citizenship, race, class and gender, emerging from the intertwine of economic and labour markets configurations, territorial sovereignty administration, public health management and the agency of migrants.

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Fitful circulations: Unauthorized movements in the Sicilian transit zone

Anderlini

2022

International Migration

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Solidarities in Transit on the French–Italian Border: Ethnographic Accounts from Ventimiglia and the Roya Valley

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Palmas

2019

Migration, Borders and Citizenship

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Humanitarian border: Reprise. Anti-human trafficking discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border

Anderlini

2024

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The article analyses the friction between anti-human trafficking discourse and border practices in the context of EU migration management: the narrative of protecting migrants from human traffickers, evoked by law enforcement actors, merges with a discourse criminalizing migration, discerning between the migrant as a passive victim – the asylum seeker –the “economic migrant” and the ruthless smuggler. Practices and procedures at the border aim primarily at classifying migrants within these categories, in fact identifying potentially dangerous subjects for the country of arrival. The case study is the Southern European border in Sicily, and the operations enacted by law enforcement actors and EU agencies within the hotspot facilities. Moving from the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted on this context since 2016, witnessing disembarkations and border procedures and getting access to the hotspot structures of Lampedusa and Pozzallo in 2021, the article analyses the transformation of the border apparatus and of contemporary governance of mobility. What delineates is a revival of the humanitarian border, where anti-human trafficking discourses are evoked to legitimize exclusionary border procedures and practices.

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Cura e controllo al confine: scritturazioni e pratiche del sapere medico negli hotspot

Cited by 3 publications

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Fitful circulations: Unauthorized movements in the Sicilian transit zone

Fitful circulations: Unauthorized movements in the Sicilian transit zone

Solidarities in Transit on the French–Italian Border: Ethnographic Accounts from Ventimiglia and the Roya Valley

Humanitarian border: Reprise. Anti-human trafficking discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border

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