Pierluigi Musarò
Biographic Data
| ID | 122268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierluigi Musarò |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierluigi |
| FAMILY NAME | Musarò |
| SIGNATURE | MUSARÒ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5232-3707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Migrations and Shrinking Rural Areas in Europe
European shrinking rural areas have played an increasingly significant role over the last decade in hosting both voluntary and forced migration. Despite the structural nature of this phenomenon, media and political narratives frequently frame migration primarily through an emergency perspective. This article investigates how the relationship between migration and shrinking rural areas is represented in mainstream media across different European c…
Imagining return. Desire, aspiration and possibility in women’s migration
Climate Mobility Justice
Imaginary Wor(l)ds
In recent decades, migration and climate change have emerged as two of the most urgent moral and political challenges confronting the twenty-first century. Predominantly portrayed in mainstream media and political discourse within the Global North as exceptional and extraordinary phenomena, the intersection of migration and climate change is increasingly framed through securitization narratives. This article critically examines the social imagina…
Friendship and migration
The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of the migration experience on friendship. It discusses what Turkish immigrants understand by the term friendship and what characteristics they associate with this term. It considers the concept of friendship in the context of Turkish immigrants living in Italy, analyzing their way of life and their tendency to build relationships with the native population. It examines the role of friendship rela…
Contested Strategies of Migration Governance
This paper explores the macro and micro trajectories linking funders, providers, disseminators and target audiences in the production, reception, appropriation or refusal of information campaigns targeting West African countries. Two different empirical studies exploring the perceptions of information campaigns by migrants, first-line practitioners, policymakers, and journalists, have enabled us to identify the persistence of colonial approaches …
Welcoming and Generative Local Welfare as an Agent for Territorial Development
In Italy, shrinking regions cover more than 60% of the national territory. Although these areas are in demographic and economic decline (Accordo di Partenariato, 2014), many resilient initiatives have been developed over the years (Moss, 1996; Meloni, 2015). Among these experiences, several are aimed at welcoming the migrant population (Corrado, 2013), becoming privileged spaces for more equitable and inclusive modes of territorial regeneration (…
La povertà alimentare tra negoziazione simbolica e processi di empowerment
Il saggio propone una riflessione sui significati sociali e simbolici del cibo grazie ad un confronto tra le pratiche di recupero e redistribuzione dei prodotti invenduti con i risultati di un'etnografia realizzata nelle ‘mense per poveri' del circuito assistenziale italiano. L'obiettivo è quello di colmare il gap nella letteratura esistente sulla povertà alimentare per investigare come il cibo e i suoi significati si ricolleghino ad una riconfig…
Volver al sur. La "nuova italianità" d'Argentina tra aree urbane e rurali
Since the second half of the 19th century, many Italians settled in Argentine lands and, if \nsome decided to stay in the city of Buenos Aires, considered the most Italian foreign city in \nthe world, others moved to rural areas, creating new urban centres and influencing the culture \nof the host country. This is particularly evident in Buenos Aires, but also in the more populated \nurban areas where Italian culture is prevalent, while in the ru…
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
Back Way” Migration to Europe
Faced with food insecurity, unemployment and broken infrastructure, many Gambian youth risk their lives through irregular and dangerous journeys to Europe – the so-called “back way” – with the hope to maximize opportunities for “better life conditions”. Concurrently, local and Western governmental and non-governmental organizations implement in the country information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration, thus complementing extraterritor…
Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development
this chapter reflects upon the contradictions of the process of globalization and localization through an analysis of the relation between tourism and migration as two interrelated phenomena concerning human mobility. Through a cultural perspective on responsible tourism, it aims to shed light on how tourism plays an essential role in local development processes, as well as in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to places (Rojek a…
Aware Migrants
Taking as a starting point studies on the biopolitics of bordering, as well as media studies, this article explores how information campaigns deter potential migrants and refugees from leaving their countries depict them in very specific ways, operating as ‘new bordering practices’ that are in conjunction with extraterritorial border policies. This article probes this question through the example of a specific information campaign – Aware Migrant…
The mediatized border
In line with the European self-description of its borders as a space of “humanitarian securitization,” this article approaches the border as a network of mediations around migrants and refugees, where emotions of fear and empathy co-exist through digital connectivities—what we call the “mediatized border.” Drawing on media, security, and gender studies, we demonstrate how such techno-affective networks are constitutive of (rather than simply comp…
Mare Nostrum
Since the early 1990s, the ‘migration crisis’ has been high on Europe’s agenda and a main cause of concern for European citizens. In recent years, numerous activists and scholars have denounced how the militarisation of migration and border controls has been explicitly bound with notions of humanitarianism. As such, the current focus on both the securitarian and humanitarian sides of the phenomenon supports a more complex logic of threat and bene…
Tensions and paradoxes of humanitarianism. Dialogue with Lilie Chouliaraki
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a background in Languages and Linguistics and her research has a strong interdisciplinary orientation, drawing on social and cultural theory, moral philosophy and sociology, visual communication and discourse theory. Her main interest lies in understanding how the media shape our ethical and political relationship to distant…
Beyond black and white
This paper investigates the media's role in shaping perceptions and policies concerning the so-called migrant crisis as well as how this affects solidarity with newcomers, specifically focusing on Italy. The first part of the paper examines the coexistence of the humanitarian narratives of saving lives and the spectacle of militarised borders. It unveils how the daily transmission of sensationalist and stereotyped images of migrants contributes t…
Mare Nostrum
Since the early 1990s, the ‘migration crisis’ has been high on Europe’s agenda and a main cause of concern for European citizens. In recent years, numerous activists and scholars have denounced how the militarisation of migration and border controls has been explicitly bound with notions of humanitarianism. As such, the current focus on both the securitarian and humanitarian sides of the phenomenon supports a more complex logic of threat and bene…
Aware Migrants
Taking as a starting point studies on the biopolitics of bordering, as well as media studies, this article explores how information campaigns deter potential migrants and refugees from leaving their countries depict them in very specific ways, operating as ‘new bordering practices’ that are in conjunction with extraterritorial border policies. This article probes this question through the example of a specific information campaign – Aware Migrant…
Beyond black and white
This paper investigates the media's role in shaping perceptions and policies concerning the so-called migrant crisis as well as how this affects solidarity with newcomers, specifically focusing on Italy. The first part of the paper examines the coexistence of the humanitarian narratives of saving lives and the spectacle of militarised borders. It unveils how the daily transmission of sensationalist and stereotyped images of migrants contributes t…
Back Way” Migration to Europe
Faced with food insecurity, unemployment and broken infrastructure, many Gambian youth risk their lives through irregular and dangerous journeys to Europe – the so-called “back way” – with the hope to maximize opportunities for “better life conditions”. Concurrently, local and Western governmental and non-governmental organizations implement in the country information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration, thus complementing extraterritor…
The mediatized border
In line with the European self-description of its borders as a space of “humanitarian securitization,” this article approaches the border as a network of mediations around migrants and refugees, where emotions of fear and empathy co-exist through digital connectivities—what we call the “mediatized border.” Drawing on media, security, and gender studies, we demonstrate how such techno-affective networks are constitutive of (rather than simply comp…
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
The mediatized border
In line with the European self-description of its borders as a space of “humanitarian securitization,” this article approaches the border as a network of mediations around migrants and refugees, where emotions of fear and empathy co-exist through digital connectivities—what we call the “mediatized border.” Drawing on media, security, and gender studies, we demonstrate how such techno-affective networks are constitutive of (rather than simply comp…
Mare Nostrum
Since the early 1990s, the ‘migration crisis’ has been high on Europe’s agenda and a main cause of concern for European citizens. In recent years, numerous activists and scholars have denounced how the militarisation of migration and border controls has been explicitly bound with notions of humanitarianism. As such, the current focus on both the securitarian and humanitarian sides of the phenomenon supports a more complex logic of threat and bene…
Tensions and paradoxes of humanitarianism. Dialogue with Lilie Chouliaraki
Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a background in Languages and Linguistics and her research has a strong interdisciplinary orientation, drawing on social and cultural theory, moral philosophy and sociology, visual communication and discourse theory. Her main interest lies in understanding how the media shape our ethical and political relationship to distant…
Beyond black and white
This paper investigates the media's role in shaping perceptions and policies concerning the so-called migrant crisis as well as how this affects solidarity with newcomers, specifically focusing on Italy. The first part of the paper examines the coexistence of the humanitarian narratives of saving lives and the spectacle of militarised borders. It unveils how the daily transmission of sensationalist and stereotyped images of migrants contributes t…
Aware Migrants
Taking as a starting point studies on the biopolitics of bordering, as well as media studies, this article explores how information campaigns deter potential migrants and refugees from leaving their countries depict them in very specific ways, operating as ‘new bordering practices’ that are in conjunction with extraterritorial border policies. This article probes this question through the example of a specific information campaign – Aware Migrant…
Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development
this chapter reflects upon the contradictions of the process of globalization and localization through an analysis of the relation between tourism and migration as two interrelated phenomena concerning human mobility. Through a cultural perspective on responsible tourism, it aims to shed light on how tourism plays an essential role in local development processes, as well as in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to places (Rojek a…
Back Way” Migration to Europe
Faced with food insecurity, unemployment and broken infrastructure, many Gambian youth risk their lives through irregular and dangerous journeys to Europe – the so-called “back way” – with the hope to maximize opportunities for “better life conditions”. Concurrently, local and Western governmental and non-governmental organizations implement in the country information campaigns on the risks of irregular migration, thus complementing extraterritor…
Welcoming and Generative Local Welfare as an Agent for Territorial Development
In Italy, shrinking regions cover more than 60% of the national territory. Although these areas are in demographic and economic decline (Accordo di Partenariato, 2014), many resilient initiatives have been developed over the years (Moss, 1996; Meloni, 2015). Among these experiences, several are aimed at welcoming the migrant population (Corrado, 2013), becoming privileged spaces for more equitable and inclusive modes of territorial regeneration (…
La povertà alimentare tra negoziazione simbolica e processi di empowerment
Il saggio propone una riflessione sui significati sociali e simbolici del cibo grazie ad un confronto tra le pratiche di recupero e redistribuzione dei prodotti invenduti con i risultati di un'etnografia realizzata nelle ‘mense per poveri' del circuito assistenziale italiano. L'obiettivo è quello di colmare il gap nella letteratura esistente sulla povertà alimentare per investigare come il cibo e i suoi significati si ricolleghino ad una riconfig…
Volver al sur. La "nuova italianità" d'Argentina tra aree urbane e rurali
Since the second half of the 19th century, many Italians settled in Argentine lands and, if \nsome decided to stay in the city of Buenos Aires, considered the most Italian foreign city in \nthe world, others moved to rural areas, creating new urban centres and influencing the culture \nof the host country. This is particularly evident in Buenos Aires, but also in the more populated \nurban areas where Italian culture is prevalent, while in the ru…
From social integration to social emplacement
This contribution presents the results of a qualitative research conducted on migrant settlement in rural Italy. It proposes moving beyond the concept of social integration to explore the potential of social emplacement of asylum seekers and refugees in non-urban areas. From this point of view, the results will be presented in the light of four analytical categories. The first is that of the influences of the specificities of Italian rural contex…
Contested Strategies of Migration Governance
This paper explores the macro and micro trajectories linking funders, providers, disseminators and target audiences in the production, reception, appropriation or refusal of information campaigns targeting West African countries. Two different empirical studies exploring the perceptions of information campaigns by migrants, first-line practitioners, policymakers, and journalists, have enabled us to identify the persistence of colonial approaches …
Climate Mobility Justice
Imaginary Wor(l)ds
In recent decades, migration and climate change have emerged as two of the most urgent moral and political challenges confronting the twenty-first century. Predominantly portrayed in mainstream media and political discourse within the Global North as exceptional and extraordinary phenomena, the intersection of migration and climate change is increasingly framed through securitization narratives. This article critically examines the social imagina…
Friendship and migration
The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of the migration experience on friendship. It discusses what Turkish immigrants understand by the term friendship and what characteristics they associate with this term. It considers the concept of friendship in the context of Turkish immigrants living in Italy, analyzing their way of life and their tendency to build relationships with the native population. It examines the role of friendship rela…
Migrations and Shrinking Rural Areas in Europe
European shrinking rural areas have played an increasingly significant role over the last decade in hosting both voluntary and forced migration. Despite the structural nature of this phenomenon, media and political narratives frequently frame migration primarily through an emergency perspective. This article investigates how the relationship between migration and shrinking rural areas is represented in mainstream media across different European c…
Imagining return. Desire, aspiration and possibility in women’s migration
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)