Luca Queirolo Palmas
Biographic Data
| ID | 126245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Queirolo Palmas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca Queirolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmas |
| SIGNATURE | PALMAS L Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1811-0120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Il Mediterraneo Centrale come campo di battaglia: Diario etnografico di un imbarco con la Civil Fleet
Attraverso la forma del diario etnografico, due voci – un ricercatore e un'operatrice sociale – imbarcati su due unità della flotta civile nel Mediterraneo Centrale documentano i conflitti attorno al soccorso in mare, la guerra alla mobilità e le pratiche di resistenza, le dinamiche relazionali a bordo e a terra, le interazioni con le autorità, l'essere equipaggio nel mondo del Search and Rescue. Questo contributo vuole restituire la complessità …
Mobilità e immaginari del Canale di Sicilia: Uno sguardo dal mare
The authors explore the migratory and cultural dynamics characterising the central Mediterranean Sea. Through a multi-sited ethnographic approach that considers historical and cultural dynamics, they highlight the layering of encounters and exchanges, frictions and contaminations permeating this space of circulation and movement. Furthermore, this contribution emphasises the importance of “migratory stratifications” and “partial connections” betw…
On Est Ensemble: Stories of a Shipwreck, a Missing Pirogue, and Potential Migrants in Senegal
This article focuses on the story of a pirogue shipwreck that occurred in early September 2024, less than two miles from the coast of Mbour, about 90 km south of Dakar. It traces an ethnographic account of that tragic event through the lenses of different voices, standpoints, and testimonies from the survivors, the relatives and friends of the victims, and those involved in the organization of both the aborted ocean crossing and the rescue operat…
Inside the Pushback Apparatus in Tunisia: Countering Mobility, Extracting its Value and Manufacturing Infrastructures of Solidarity
Since 2023, Tunisia has implemented a new migration management policy marked by intensified security-led pushbacks of Black sub-Saharan migrants from coastal cities to its national borders, echoing similar practices in Algeria, Libya, and Morocco. Despite widespread national and international criticism, this approach has persisted and grown increasingly complex, with an expanding network of routes and increased frequency of forced movements. This…
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks
Note etnografiche attorno a religione, magia e avventura
Il saggio esplora, attraverso diari di campo etnografici, alcune dinamiche sociali dell'avventura migratoria intrecciate al magico e al religioso in Mauritania e Tunisia. Gli autori evidenziano come la dimensione del religioso, intrisa di elementi magici, modelli la costruzione sociale del viaggio verso l'Europa dei migranti subsahariani, producendo indispensabili infrastrutture materiali e configurazioni relazionali favorevoli. Le figure delle g…
Of land and sea. "Interested solidarities" and the migration industry from below
This paper explores economic interactions between displaced people, local societies and spatial dimensions of migration management and border controls, most notably camps, focusing on the northeast Aegean islands of Chios and Lesvos. It explores the diverse activities, practices, transactions and relations developing in, around and in relation to migrant camps, the array of economic actors involved, and the multiple spatialities operating at diff…
The emerging of solidarity along unauthorized routes: Postcards of Migrant Encounters
The aim of this article is to stress the possibility of a specific and innovative gaze on borders and borderlands: one that puts solidarity as an encounter and a fabric among people on the move enacting a relentless dynamism along unauthorized routes, constituting one of the key elements for understanding the journey as a social construction. The turn we propose aims to mark a clear and novel theoretical break by: (i) overcoming the opposition be…
Camps archipelago: An ethnography of migrant agricultural laborers in the potato harvesting in rural Sicily
The presence of migrant workers in the agricultural system of Southern Italy is cur-rently an essential element of this economic area. This increasing presence is deep-ly linked with the transformations occurred to agricultural markets and hence on the mode of production and distribution, not only in Italy or in Europe but at a global level. Moving from this context, the article focuses on the articulation of spaces and time of production and rep…
The Value of Information. Mobility and Border Knowledge Battlegrounds in the Ventimiglia Region
This contribution explores the acquisition, circulation and negotiation of knowledge related to mobility and border crossing among migrants at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia. Despite governmental deterrence policies and border controls, the pursuit of “secondary movements” seems not to decrease, and is increasingly putting Europe to the test. In this context, the underground knowledge network that exists can be used to circumvent legal …
The hole , the corridor and the landings: Reframing Lampedusa through the Covid-19 emergency
This article presents the results of an ethnography carried out in Lampedusa – a fundamental hub in \nthe border spectacle of irregular migrations – during the COVID-19 emergency, where landings have \nincreased, specially from Tunisia. Through fieldwork and interviews to local key actors, the research \naims to answer the following intertwined questions: how does migrant agency develop? How is the \nborderwork reinvented? How do different local …
Contemporary Youth Culture at the Margins of Marseille and Milan: Gangs, Music, and Global Imaginaries
In this article, we will compare Marseille and Milan, as well as the social (and digital) practices of young people living in two neighbourhoods: LaFab in the third district—one of the poorest areas of the French city—and San Siro—one of the largest social housing areas of the Italian one. These young people were born in France and Italy, but their parents are mostly of African origins. This comparative analysis is carried out at three interdepen…
From Lampedusa to the Susa Valley: Solidarity networks in two border battlegrounds
Since the beginning of the ‘reception crisis’ in 2015, the term ‘solidarity’ has been widely employed in Europe by networks supporting migrants in transit. These networks – while increasingly important and prominent in contemporary Europe − are still understudied and have only recently been addressed in migration studies. The research takes place in two crucial border zones: on the one hand, the island of Lampedusa, which is a sea point of entry …
"Now is the real Jungle!" Institutional hunting and migrants' survival after the eviction of the Calais camp
The refugee makeshift settlement of Calais, globally known as the "Calais Jungle", was dismantled in October 2016. Its existence, as a spectacle repeatedly spread by the media all over the world, was a key element in the representation of the so-called "migration crisis" in Europe. One year after the end of the camp, this article focuses on a new scenario in which dispersed settlements keep reappearing and migrants are hunted by the authorities a…
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla
Ceuta, Melilla, and the neighboring Moroccan territories can be imagined as testing grounds where different policies and acts of resistance, spectacles, and economies are assembled, configuring a borderland peculiar for the turbulence of contemporary migrations. Are these enclaves, European outpost in Africa, functioning as places of confinement and buffer zones, as theaters in which to stage the narrative of invasion? Exploring the internal logi…
Exploring a solidarity route: Cultural artefacts, art interventions and encounters on the French–Italian border
From the European migration crisis of 2015 onwards, the refugee and migration issue in Italy has become central to the production of a political imaginary centred on hostility. Through the lenses of a long ethnographic experience, the article focuses on the French–Italian border of Ventimiglia, highlighting the existence of a heterogeneous support coalition that favours the transit and escape. The practices of this coalition, whose functioning ec…
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze
This article is based on a shared ethnographic experience centered on a trip back to a crucial landing site in Sicily. Searching for the evocative and emotional dimension of a border zone, the research follows a refugee, who is now living within the institutional reception system in Northern Italy, wandering and rediscovering the moment of his arrival three years after having been rescued. The dialogue that emerged from this experience focuses on…
El problema de las bandas en España como objeto de producción académica y de activismo etnográfico
A Espanya, l’afer de les bandes és un objecte problema que, des de l’any 2003, institueix i anticipa la producció d’un discurs públic sobre la joventut d’origen migrant; un fet social i una narrativa mediàtica que permeten fixar el caràcter perillós de nous subjectes que circulen per l’espai urbà i vincular-los amb una etnicitat suposadament definitòria (les bandes llatines). Com rep l’acadèmia espanyola aquest discurs d’ordre comú constituït, pr…
Pandillas en el Atlántico latino: Identidad, Transnacionalismo Y Generaciones
Este artculo est guiado por la idea de que la multiplicacin y el crecimiento de organizaciones callejeras en distintas partes del mundo estn relacionados con la identidad, el surgimiento de vidas transnacionales y nuevas formas de entender las generaciones. En la primera parte del documento, se busca explicar la reproduccin global de estas agrupaciones que surgen como experiencias locales. En la segunda parte, y a travs de la experiencia de los L…
Nous sommes ici ! ». Les enfants de l’immigration contre une postérité inopportune
Transmigrared y la investigación interdisciplinar sobre las migraciones latinoamericanas a Europa
La revista Alternativas. Cuadernos de Trabajo Social tiene como objeto fundamental contribuir a la difusión de investigaciones, experiencias, trabajos teóricos y metodológicos, tanto de carácter académico como profesional, relativos al Trabajo Social, a la política social y a los Servicios Sociales. Es una publicación digital de acceso abierto y gratuito
Oltre la doppia assenza. Rappresentazioni e cittadinanza fra gli ecuadoriani di Genova
La construcción de la ciudadanía es un proceso que no sólo se centra en el acceso al trabajo y en los derechos que esto genera. Este trabajo expone los principales resultados de una investigación empírica realizada mediante cuestionario a 253 ecuatorianas y ecuatorianos residentes en la ciudad de Genova, en la que se van analizando los aspectos básicos que intervienen en el proceso de construcción de la ciudadanía
"Now is the real Jungle!" Institutional hunting and migrants' survival after the eviction of the Calais camp
The refugee makeshift settlement of Calais, globally known as the "Calais Jungle", was dismantled in October 2016. Its existence, as a spectacle repeatedly spread by the media all over the world, was a key element in the representation of the so-called "migration crisis" in Europe. One year after the end of the camp, this article focuses on a new scenario in which dispersed settlements keep reappearing and migrants are hunted by the authorities a…
From Lampedusa to the Susa Valley: Solidarity networks in two border battlegrounds
Since the beginning of the ‘reception crisis’ in 2015, the term ‘solidarity’ has been widely employed in Europe by networks supporting migrants in transit. These networks – while increasingly important and prominent in contemporary Europe − are still understudied and have only recently been addressed in migration studies. The research takes place in two crucial border zones: on the one hand, the island of Lampedusa, which is a sea point of entry …
Exploring a solidarity route: Cultural artefacts, art interventions and encounters on the French–Italian border
From the European migration crisis of 2015 onwards, the refugee and migration issue in Italy has become central to the production of a political imaginary centred on hostility. Through the lenses of a long ethnographic experience, the article focuses on the French–Italian border of Ventimiglia, highlighting the existence of a heterogeneous support coalition that favours the transit and escape. The practices of this coalition, whose functioning ec…
The Value of Information. Mobility and Border Knowledge Battlegrounds in the Ventimiglia Region
This contribution explores the acquisition, circulation and negotiation of knowledge related to mobility and border crossing among migrants at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia. Despite governmental deterrence policies and border controls, the pursuit of “secondary movements” seems not to decrease, and is increasingly putting Europe to the test. In this context, the underground knowledge network that exists can be used to circumvent legal …
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla
Ceuta, Melilla, and the neighboring Moroccan territories can be imagined as testing grounds where different policies and acts of resistance, spectacles, and economies are assembled, configuring a borderland peculiar for the turbulence of contemporary migrations. Are these enclaves, European outpost in Africa, functioning as places of confinement and buffer zones, as theaters in which to stage the narrative of invasion? Exploring the internal logi…
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze
This article is based on a shared ethnographic experience centered on a trip back to a crucial landing site in Sicily. Searching for the evocative and emotional dimension of a border zone, the research follows a refugee, who is now living within the institutional reception system in Northern Italy, wandering and rediscovering the moment of his arrival three years after having been rescued. The dialogue that emerged from this experience focuses on…
The emerging of solidarity along unauthorized routes: Postcards of Migrant Encounters
The aim of this article is to stress the possibility of a specific and innovative gaze on borders and borderlands: one that puts solidarity as an encounter and a fabric among people on the move enacting a relentless dynamism along unauthorized routes, constituting one of the key elements for understanding the journey as a social construction. The turn we propose aims to mark a clear and novel theoretical break by: (i) overcoming the opposition be…
El problema de las bandas en España como objeto de producción académica y de activismo etnográfico
A Espanya, l’afer de les bandes és un objecte problema que, des de l’any 2003, institueix i anticipa la producció d’un discurs públic sobre la joventut d’origen migrant; un fet social i una narrativa mediàtica que permeten fixar el caràcter perillós de nous subjectes que circulen per l’espai urbà i vincular-los amb una etnicitat suposadament definitòria (les bandes llatines). Com rep l’acadèmia espanyola aquest discurs d’ordre comú constituït, pr…
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks
Contemporary Youth Culture at the Margins of Marseille and Milan: Gangs, Music, and Global Imaginaries
In this article, we will compare Marseille and Milan, as well as the social (and digital) practices of young people living in two neighbourhoods: LaFab in the third district—one of the poorest areas of the French city—and San Siro—one of the largest social housing areas of the Italian one. These young people were born in France and Italy, but their parents are mostly of African origins. This comparative analysis is carried out at three interdepen…
Transmigrared y la investigación interdisciplinar sobre las migraciones latinoamericanas a Europa
La revista Alternativas. Cuadernos de Trabajo Social tiene como objeto fundamental contribuir a la difusión de investigaciones, experiencias, trabajos teóricos y metodológicos, tanto de carácter académico como profesional, relativos al Trabajo Social, a la política social y a los Servicios Sociales. Es una publicación digital de acceso abierto y gratuito
Oltre la doppia assenza. Rappresentazioni e cittadinanza fra gli ecuadoriani di Genova
La construcción de la ciudadanía es un proceso que no sólo se centra en el acceso al trabajo y en los derechos que esto genera. Este trabajo expone los principales resultados de una investigación empírica realizada mediante cuestionario a 253 ecuatorianas y ecuatorianos residentes en la ciudad de Genova, en la que se van analizando los aspectos básicos que intervienen en el proceso de construcción de la ciudadanía
Nous sommes ici ! ». Les enfants de l’immigration contre une postérité inopportune
Pandillas en el Atlántico latino: Identidad, Transnacionalismo Y Generaciones
Este artculo est guiado por la idea de que la multiplicacin y el crecimiento de organizaciones callejeras en distintas partes del mundo estn relacionados con la identidad, el surgimiento de vidas transnacionales y nuevas formas de entender las generaciones. En la primera parte del documento, se busca explicar la reproduccin global de estas agrupaciones que surgen como experiencias locales. En la segunda parte, y a travs de la experiencia de los L…
El problema de las bandas en España como objeto de producción académica y de activismo etnográfico
A Espanya, l’afer de les bandes és un objecte problema que, des de l’any 2003, institueix i anticipa la producció d’un discurs públic sobre la joventut d’origen migrant; un fet social i una narrativa mediàtica que permeten fixar el caràcter perillós de nous subjectes que circulen per l’espai urbà i vincular-los amb una etnicitat suposadament definitòria (les bandes llatines). Com rep l’acadèmia espanyola aquest discurs d’ordre comú constituït, pr…
Exploring a solidarity route: Cultural artefacts, art interventions and encounters on the French–Italian border
From the European migration crisis of 2015 onwards, the refugee and migration issue in Italy has become central to the production of a political imaginary centred on hostility. Through the lenses of a long ethnographic experience, the article focuses on the French–Italian border of Ventimiglia, highlighting the existence of a heterogeneous support coalition that favours the transit and escape. The practices of this coalition, whose functioning ec…
Back to the Sicilian Landing Sites: Exploring a Borderland through a Refugee Gaze
This article is based on a shared ethnographic experience centered on a trip back to a crucial landing site in Sicily. Searching for the evocative and emotional dimension of a border zone, the research follows a refugee, who is now living within the institutional reception system in Northern Italy, wandering and rediscovering the moment of his arrival three years after having been rescued. The dialogue that emerged from this experience focuses on…
From Lampedusa to the Susa Valley: Solidarity networks in two border battlegrounds
Since the beginning of the ‘reception crisis’ in 2015, the term ‘solidarity’ has been widely employed in Europe by networks supporting migrants in transit. These networks – while increasingly important and prominent in contemporary Europe − are still understudied and have only recently been addressed in migration studies. The research takes place in two crucial border zones: on the one hand, the island of Lampedusa, which is a sea point of entry …
"Now is the real Jungle!" Institutional hunting and migrants' survival after the eviction of the Calais camp
The refugee makeshift settlement of Calais, globally known as the "Calais Jungle", was dismantled in October 2016. Its existence, as a spectacle repeatedly spread by the media all over the world, was a key element in the representation of the so-called "migration crisis" in Europe. One year after the end of the camp, this article focuses on a new scenario in which dispersed settlements keep reappearing and migrants are hunted by the authorities a…
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla
Ceuta, Melilla, and the neighboring Moroccan territories can be imagined as testing grounds where different policies and acts of resistance, spectacles, and economies are assembled, configuring a borderland peculiar for the turbulence of contemporary migrations. Are these enclaves, European outpost in Africa, functioning as places of confinement and buffer zones, as theaters in which to stage the narrative of invasion? Exploring the internal logi…
The hole , the corridor and the landings: Reframing Lampedusa through the Covid-19 emergency
This article presents the results of an ethnography carried out in Lampedusa – a fundamental hub in \nthe border spectacle of irregular migrations – during the COVID-19 emergency, where landings have \nincreased, specially from Tunisia. Through fieldwork and interviews to local key actors, the research \naims to answer the following intertwined questions: how does migrant agency develop? How is the \nborderwork reinvented? How do different local …
Contemporary Youth Culture at the Margins of Marseille and Milan: Gangs, Music, and Global Imaginaries
In this article, we will compare Marseille and Milan, as well as the social (and digital) practices of young people living in two neighbourhoods: LaFab in the third district—one of the poorest areas of the French city—and San Siro—one of the largest social housing areas of the Italian one. These young people were born in France and Italy, but their parents are mostly of African origins. This comparative analysis is carried out at three interdepen…
Camps archipelago: An ethnography of migrant agricultural laborers in the potato harvesting in rural Sicily
The presence of migrant workers in the agricultural system of Southern Italy is cur-rently an essential element of this economic area. This increasing presence is deep-ly linked with the transformations occurred to agricultural markets and hence on the mode of production and distribution, not only in Italy or in Europe but at a global level. Moving from this context, the article focuses on the articulation of spaces and time of production and rep…
The Value of Information. Mobility and Border Knowledge Battlegrounds in the Ventimiglia Region
This contribution explores the acquisition, circulation and negotiation of knowledge related to mobility and border crossing among migrants at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia. Despite governmental deterrence policies and border controls, the pursuit of “secondary movements” seems not to decrease, and is increasingly putting Europe to the test. In this context, the underground knowledge network that exists can be used to circumvent legal …
Note etnografiche attorno a religione, magia e avventura
Il saggio esplora, attraverso diari di campo etnografici, alcune dinamiche sociali dell'avventura migratoria intrecciate al magico e al religioso in Mauritania e Tunisia. Gli autori evidenziano come la dimensione del religioso, intrisa di elementi magici, modelli la costruzione sociale del viaggio verso l'Europa dei migranti subsahariani, producendo indispensabili infrastrutture materiali e configurazioni relazionali favorevoli. Le figure delle g…
Of land and sea. "Interested solidarities" and the migration industry from below
This paper explores economic interactions between displaced people, local societies and spatial dimensions of migration management and border controls, most notably camps, focusing on the northeast Aegean islands of Chios and Lesvos. It explores the diverse activities, practices, transactions and relations developing in, around and in relation to migrant camps, the array of economic actors involved, and the multiple spatialities operating at diff…
The emerging of solidarity along unauthorized routes: Postcards of Migrant Encounters
The aim of this article is to stress the possibility of a specific and innovative gaze on borders and borderlands: one that puts solidarity as an encounter and a fabric among people on the move enacting a relentless dynamism along unauthorized routes, constituting one of the key elements for understanding the journey as a social construction. The turn we propose aims to mark a clear and novel theoretical break by: (i) overcoming the opposition be…
Il Mediterraneo Centrale come campo di battaglia: Diario etnografico di un imbarco con la Civil Fleet
Attraverso la forma del diario etnografico, due voci – un ricercatore e un'operatrice sociale – imbarcati su due unità della flotta civile nel Mediterraneo Centrale documentano i conflitti attorno al soccorso in mare, la guerra alla mobilità e le pratiche di resistenza, le dinamiche relazionali a bordo e a terra, le interazioni con le autorità, l'essere equipaggio nel mondo del Search and Rescue. Questo contributo vuole restituire la complessità …
Mobilità e immaginari del Canale di Sicilia: Uno sguardo dal mare
The authors explore the migratory and cultural dynamics characterising the central Mediterranean Sea. Through a multi-sited ethnographic approach that considers historical and cultural dynamics, they highlight the layering of encounters and exchanges, frictions and contaminations permeating this space of circulation and movement. Furthermore, this contribution emphasises the importance of “migratory stratifications” and “partial connections” betw…
On Est Ensemble: Stories of a Shipwreck, a Missing Pirogue, and Potential Migrants in Senegal
This article focuses on the story of a pirogue shipwreck that occurred in early September 2024, less than two miles from the coast of Mbour, about 90 km south of Dakar. It traces an ethnographic account of that tragic event through the lenses of different voices, standpoints, and testimonies from the survivors, the relatives and friends of the victims, and those involved in the organization of both the aborted ocean crossing and the rescue operat…
Inside the Pushback Apparatus in Tunisia: Countering Mobility, Extracting its Value and Manufacturing Infrastructures of Solidarity
Since 2023, Tunisia has implemented a new migration management policy marked by intensified security-led pushbacks of Black sub-Saharan migrants from coastal cities to its national borders, echoing similar practices in Algeria, Libya, and Morocco. Despite widespread national and international criticism, this approach has persisted and grown increasingly complex, with an expanding network of routes and increased frequency of forced movements. This…
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks
Political science (17 works) · Ethnography (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Exile Studies (6 works)