Ettore Asoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 1680821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ettore Asoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ettore |
| FAMILY NAME | Asoni |
| SIGNATURE | ASONI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University, USA; University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2468-5107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
EUrope’s changing territory
Recent years have marked a turning point for the externalization of border and migration control within the EU. Italy’s new policy of extraterritorial detention in Albania, together with the legislative proposal to establish return hubs in third countries, signal a qualitative shift from previous practices. EU Member States are no longer content with relying on bilateral partnerships to outsource border control to non-European countries. Instead,…
Migration, the Archive, and the Map
In recent years, archiving and countermapping have emerged as popular and powerful instruments to represent unauthorized migrations and criticize contemporary border regimes. This resulted in a variety of political projects involving academics, migrants, and advocacy groups, using archiving and mapmaking as vectors of dissensus and affirming politics. This parallel between maps and archives is not just a contemporary trend; it speaks to their lon…
The island, the prison, and the colony
Across research on incarceration and insularity, recent trajectories have challenged conventional understandings of islands and prisons as isolated, autonomous units. Instead, they have directed attention toward their capacity to establish relations, circuits and routes. Beyond the focus on mobility and exchanges, this literature criticised the association between insularity, incarceration and confinement as the outcome of specific colonial epist…
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights
In recent years, European states have become creative in developing strategies to curtail international migration while escaping their obligations under human rights law. These strategies aim at stopping migrants before they can enter a state’s jurisdiction, under the argument that states are not bound to their obligations while operating outside their jurisdictional boundaries. This article adopts a geographic perspective to examine the concept …
When politics are contagious
During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, immigration detainees in the United States rose up to protests their forced confinement during a global pandemic, launching collective hunger strikes across separate facilities on a national scale. In this article, I utilize primary and secondary sources to examine the strike that occurred at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego in the Spring 2020. While acts of resistance are hardly a new …
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy
What separates camps and prisons as distinct institutions of confinement? This question has important implications for geographic research, and particularly for current and potential intersections between “camp studies” and other contiguous fields in geography. Here, I conceptualize camps and prisons as historical formations, whose distinction varies at specific junctures. I compare confinement sites in reference to their temporal equilibriums an…
Away from the border and into the frontier
This paper investigates US immigration law as a spatial system whose application results in geographic confusion. I take the case of Barton v. Barr as a vivid example of this structure, where the petitioner was found to be simultaneously "outside" and "inside" the country under a legal perspective. Beginning from this paradox, I focus on the law's ability to produce extraterritorial folds within the country's interior, thus confining aliens into …
Paramilitarism without Paramilitaries
The goal of this article is to analyse the representation of the Colombian armed conflict in the controversial TV series Tres Caínes (2013), which dramatizes the history of paramilitarism in Colombia through a biographical story of the lives of the three brothers Castaño Gil, the leaders and founders of Colombia’s biggest paramilitary group, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). I argue that Tres Caínes represents the war through a rhetoric …
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy
What separates camps and prisons as distinct institutions of confinement? This question has important implications for geographic research, and particularly for current and potential intersections between “camp studies” and other contiguous fields in geography. Here, I conceptualize camps and prisons as historical formations, whose distinction varies at specific junctures. I compare confinement sites in reference to their temporal equilibriums an…
Away from the border and into the frontier
This paper investigates US immigration law as a spatial system whose application results in geographic confusion. I take the case of Barton v. Barr as a vivid example of this structure, where the petitioner was found to be simultaneously "outside" and "inside" the country under a legal perspective. Beginning from this paradox, I focus on the law's ability to produce extraterritorial folds within the country's interior, thus confining aliens into …
Migration, the Archive, and the Map
In recent years, archiving and countermapping have emerged as popular and powerful instruments to represent unauthorized migrations and criticize contemporary border regimes. This resulted in a variety of political projects involving academics, migrants, and advocacy groups, using archiving and mapmaking as vectors of dissensus and affirming politics. This parallel between maps and archives is not just a contemporary trend; it speaks to their lon…
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights
In recent years, European states have become creative in developing strategies to curtail international migration while escaping their obligations under human rights law. These strategies aim at stopping migrants before they can enter a state’s jurisdiction, under the argument that states are not bound to their obligations while operating outside their jurisdictional boundaries. This article adopts a geographic perspective to examine the concept …
Paramilitarism without Paramilitaries
The goal of this article is to analyse the representation of the Colombian armed conflict in the controversial TV series Tres Caínes (2013), which dramatizes the history of paramilitarism in Colombia through a biographical story of the lives of the three brothers Castaño Gil, the leaders and founders of Colombia’s biggest paramilitary group, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC). I argue that Tres Caínes represents the war through a rhetoric …
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy
What separates camps and prisons as distinct institutions of confinement? This question has important implications for geographic research, and particularly for current and potential intersections between “camp studies” and other contiguous fields in geography. Here, I conceptualize camps and prisons as historical formations, whose distinction varies at specific junctures. I compare confinement sites in reference to their temporal equilibriums an…
Away from the border and into the frontier
This paper investigates US immigration law as a spatial system whose application results in geographic confusion. I take the case of Barton v. Barr as a vivid example of this structure, where the petitioner was found to be simultaneously "outside" and "inside" the country under a legal perspective. Beginning from this paradox, I focus on the law's ability to produce extraterritorial folds within the country's interior, thus confining aliens into …
When politics are contagious
During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, immigration detainees in the United States rose up to protests their forced confinement during a global pandemic, launching collective hunger strikes across separate facilities on a national scale. In this article, I utilize primary and secondary sources to examine the strike that occurred at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego in the Spring 2020. While acts of resistance are hardly a new …
The island, the prison, and the colony
Across research on incarceration and insularity, recent trajectories have challenged conventional understandings of islands and prisons as isolated, autonomous units. Instead, they have directed attention toward their capacity to establish relations, circuits and routes. Beyond the focus on mobility and exchanges, this literature criticised the association between insularity, incarceration and confinement as the outcome of specific colonial epist…
Territory, Terrain, and Human Rights
In recent years, European states have become creative in developing strategies to curtail international migration while escaping their obligations under human rights law. These strategies aim at stopping migrants before they can enter a state’s jurisdiction, under the argument that states are not bound to their obligations while operating outside their jurisdictional boundaries. This article adopts a geographic perspective to examine the concept …
Migration, the Archive, and the Map
In recent years, archiving and countermapping have emerged as popular and powerful instruments to represent unauthorized migrations and criticize contemporary border regimes. This resulted in a variety of political projects involving academics, migrants, and advocacy groups, using archiving and mapmaking as vectors of dissensus and affirming politics. This parallel between maps and archives is not just a contemporary trend; it speaks to their lon…
EUrope’s changing territory
Recent years have marked a turning point for the externalization of border and migration control within the EU. Italy’s new policy of extraterritorial detention in Albania, together with the legislative proposal to establish return hubs in third countries, signal a qualitative shift from previous practices. EU Member States are no longer content with relying on bilateral partnerships to outsource border control to non-European countries. Instead,…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works)