Sanctuary Squats

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4053471
AutoresCarla Hung (0000-0003-3642-8263)
Año2019
Volumen2019
Número135
Páginas119-137
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-7607872
OpenAlexW2989523261
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas26

This article details the political contestations of refugee occupiers after they were violently evicted from their home, colloquially called Piazza Indipendenza. Participant observation as a friend of the Eritrean refugees who occupied Piazza Indipendenza during the time of their eviction brought to light the way refugee occupiers both demand rights to subsidized housing and care for each other. Refugees confront the discriminatory distribution of integration resources in Italy by establishing autonomous structures, like housing occupations of abandoned buildings, to both approximate their entitlement to subsidized housing and assert their rights. For many Eritrean refugee occupiers in Rome, it is the Habesha community itself that provides the most reliable form of care, shelter, and protection, such that migrant-occupied housing projects (squats) act as sites of sanctuary. Sanctuary squats act as shelters from which to contest repressive governmental policies

CONTEST · Economics · Eviction · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Subsidy · African history and culture analysis · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society