Maurizio Albahari
Biographic Data
| ID | 115155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Albahari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Albahari |
| SIGNATURE | ALBAHARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migrant Democracy
The article addresses the tension between the internalization of a violent border regime intent on preempting migrant arrivals and the everyday democratic struggle against that regime. It builds on ethnographic fieldwork in Rome to illuminate conflicting political imaginations and existing practices of the already plural, albeit unequal, Italian polity. On the one hand, we see a bordered democracy. This democracy keeps investing in nationalizing …
From Right to Permission
The European Union (EU) and its member states have sought to curb unauthorized maritime migrant arrivals through a proactive combination of deterrence, intelligence, surveillance, anti-smuggling activities, border enforcement, and policing and readmission collaboration with Turkey, Libya, and Libya’s African neighbors. Through these actions, the right to seek asylum is being de facto transformed into a state-granted permission to seek asylum. Con…
After the Shipwreck
After the Shipwreck:Mourning and Citizenship in the Mediterranean, Our Sea Maurizio Albahari (bio) FISHING NO MORE Zuwara, a Libyan port city not far from the Tunisian border, serves as a migrant smuggling hub. It promises arrival to the island of Lampedusa 180 miles to the north, in Italy.1 Lampedusa's fishermen avoid the stretch of sea to their island's south—experience tells them their fishing nets are likely to be torn by the many wrecks on t…
Mediterranean Carnage
The shipwreck of October 3, 2013, when at least 366 Eritrean refugees drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa, points to ongoing border carnage in the region. As an anthropologist with research experience on Mediterranean migrations and as an Italian citizen, I seek to inform broader publics and policy discussions of this issue. My substantial contributions to the public sphere have, in turn, foregrounded analytical tensions involving anthrop…
Crimes of Peace
In Crimes of Peace , Maurizio Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world's deadliest border, and what alternatives might improve this state of affairs. Albahari transforms abstract statistics into names and narratives that place the responsibility for the Mediterranean migration crisis in the heart of liberal democracy
Europe's refugee crisis
In this guest editorial Maurizio Albahari considers the refugee crisis, Europe's worst since WWII. Does this crisis represent a critical turning point
Al confine della primavera
Evicted from Eternity
Europe's refugee crisis
In this guest editorial Maurizio Albahari considers the refugee crisis, Europe's worst since WWII. Does this crisis represent a critical turning point
From Right to Permission
The European Union (EU) and its member states have sought to curb unauthorized maritime migrant arrivals through a proactive combination of deterrence, intelligence, surveillance, anti-smuggling activities, border enforcement, and policing and readmission collaboration with Turkey, Libya, and Libya’s African neighbors. Through these actions, the right to seek asylum is being de facto transformed into a state-granted permission to seek asylum. Con…
After the Shipwreck
After the Shipwreck:Mourning and Citizenship in the Mediterranean, Our Sea Maurizio Albahari (bio) FISHING NO MORE Zuwara, a Libyan port city not far from the Tunisian border, serves as a migrant smuggling hub. It promises arrival to the island of Lampedusa 180 miles to the north, in Italy.1 Lampedusa's fishermen avoid the stretch of sea to their island's south—experience tells them their fishing nets are likely to be torn by the many wrecks on t…
Mediterranean Carnage
The shipwreck of October 3, 2013, when at least 366 Eritrean refugees drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa, points to ongoing border carnage in the region. As an anthropologist with research experience on Mediterranean migrations and as an Italian citizen, I seek to inform broader publics and policy discussions of this issue. My substantial contributions to the public sphere have, in turn, foregrounded analytical tensions involving anthrop…
Evicted from Eternity
Al confine della primavera
Evicted from Eternity
Crimes of Peace
In Crimes of Peace , Maurizio Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world's deadliest border, and what alternatives might improve this state of affairs. Albahari transforms abstract statistics into names and narratives that place the responsibility for the Mediterranean migration crisis in the heart of liberal democracy
Europe's refugee crisis
In this guest editorial Maurizio Albahari considers the refugee crisis, Europe's worst since WWII. Does this crisis represent a critical turning point
After the Shipwreck
After the Shipwreck:Mourning and Citizenship in the Mediterranean, Our Sea Maurizio Albahari (bio) FISHING NO MORE Zuwara, a Libyan port city not far from the Tunisian border, serves as a migrant smuggling hub. It promises arrival to the island of Lampedusa 180 miles to the north, in Italy.1 Lampedusa's fishermen avoid the stretch of sea to their island's south—experience tells them their fishing nets are likely to be torn by the many wrecks on t…
Mediterranean Carnage
The shipwreck of October 3, 2013, when at least 366 Eritrean refugees drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa, points to ongoing border carnage in the region. As an anthropologist with research experience on Mediterranean migrations and as an Italian citizen, I seek to inform broader publics and policy discussions of this issue. My substantial contributions to the public sphere have, in turn, foregrounded analytical tensions involving anthrop…
From Right to Permission
The European Union (EU) and its member states have sought to curb unauthorized maritime migrant arrivals through a proactive combination of deterrence, intelligence, surveillance, anti-smuggling activities, border enforcement, and policing and readmission collaboration with Turkey, Libya, and Libya’s African neighbors. Through these actions, the right to seek asylum is being de facto transformed into a state-granted permission to seek asylum. Con…
Migrant Democracy
The article addresses the tension between the internalization of a violent border regime intent on preempting migrant arrivals and the everyday democratic struggle against that regime. It builds on ethnographic fieldwork in Rome to illuminate conflicting political imaginations and existing practices of the already plural, albeit unequal, Italian polity. On the one hand, we see a bordered democracy. This democracy keeps investing in nationalizing …
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Refugee (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)