Simone Castellani
Biographic Data
| ID | 236902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Castellani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Castellani |
| SIGNATURE | CASTELLANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Cádiz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9350-9038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disciplining Poverty: “Migrant” Workers in the Maze of German Welfare Bureaucracy
This article examines migrant workers’ experiences with the German welfare state, drawing on three empirical studies conducted in Berlin (2014-2021) with rejected third-country asylum seekers and Southern and Eastern European Union citizens. It highlights how state bureaucracies implement selective access to welfare through everyday practices conceptualised as “bureaucratic violence” (Graeber, 2012), which are the product of interaction between l…
Advancing migration and health research by examining return migration
This essay offers an analysis of research on return migration and health by adopting the social determinants of health (SDH) framework proposed by the WHO. Specifically, we argue that the SDH are implicated in the decision to migrate, stay or return, which in itself also contributes to social health inequities. Most theoretical frameworks developed to study migration have predominantly considered primary migration movements. The lack of a fluid c…
Who cares? Civil society organizations as healthcare life vest for migrants in post troika Portugal
In Southern European societies such as the Portuguese, family and civil society play a relevant role in welfare policies, acting as complementary or supplementary 'safety-nets' to the state. In times of crises, migrants' access to healthcare is not only questioned but put at risk. This paper unveils the specific roles played by Civil Society Organisations' (CSOs) in providing healthcare to migrants in the aftermath of TROIKA in Portugal. By categ…
Bricolage in labor organizing practices: Spanish and Italian migrant activists in Berlin
This article analyzes how Southern European workers create bricolage by combining creatively organized practices of collective action, such as those of conventional labor unions, with self-created practices when facing oppressive labor relations and widespread downgrading of social mobility. We compare two cases of networks formed by Spanish and Italian migrant workers in Berlin: the Grupo de Acción Sindical and Berlin Migrant Strikers. Drawing o…
Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the Covid ‐19 crisis in Spain
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, the lockdowns brought about the loss of labour and social rights for many migrant women working in highly informal employment sectors. Drawing on digital ethnography, this article examines the role of migrant women in political mobilization within migrant associations during 2020 in Spain, when online interactions assumed primary importance. First, it shows how migrant organizations create bricolage by combi…
On the Fringes of Social Protection: New Southern European Labour Migration to Germany
The last economic recession has exposed significant differences among EU countries revealing strong core–periphery dynamics. Freedom of movement in the EU has represented an opportunity for workers from peripheral countries to find better employment opportunities in the core countries. However, the mobility of EU workers has been questioned and “welfare chauvinism” has become stronger in most EU countries. Drawing from two extensive studies drive…
Re-writing the domestic role: Transnational migrants’ households between informal and formal social protection in Ecuador and in Spain
Ecuadorian migration to Spain can be described as an emblematic case of feminization of international migration. As the scholarship showed, this migration flow has been shaped by transnational female social networks in which different types of capital circulate and which are re-produced across generations, providing social protection for people involved in them, both migrants and non-migrants. Starting from three ethnographic studies conducted wi…
The unseen protagonists. Ecuadorians’ daughters between Ecuador and Southern Europe
Scholars consider Latin American migration toward Europe to be a case study in the feminization of international migration. However, these studies have not focused on second-generation girls. Beginning from a gender and intergenerational approach, this paper stresses the agency role played by the reunified teenage daughters of Ecuadorian migrants both in Ecuador as well as in Southern Europe. The discussion is based on two transnational ethnograp…
Pons Rodríguez, Lola (2012). El paisaje lingüístico de Sevilla. Lenguas y variedades en el paisaje urbano hispalense. Sevilla: Diputación de Sevilla, 311 pp
Reseña de: PONS RODRÍGUEZ, LOLA (2012). El paisaje lingüístico de Sevilla. Lenguas y variedades en el paisaje urbano hispalense. Sevilla: Diputación de Sevilla, 311 pp
Mujeres migrantes en la era de la globalización. Ecuatorianas y senegalesas en Sevilla
Latin American Immigration to Spain: Discourses and practices from ‘la madre patria’
On the whole, Latin American migration currently represents the highest percentage of migration into the Spanish state. This situation results from a series of factors, combined in both the points of origin and destination, and relating to the economic policies of the emitting and receiving countries within the framework of globalization. However, despite the way in which the phenomenon is portrayed by politicians and the media, this predominance…
On the Fringes of Social Protection: New Southern European Labour Migration to Germany
The last economic recession has exposed significant differences among EU countries revealing strong core–periphery dynamics. Freedom of movement in the EU has represented an opportunity for workers from peripheral countries to find better employment opportunities in the core countries. However, the mobility of EU workers has been questioned and “welfare chauvinism” has become stronger in most EU countries. Drawing from two extensive studies drive…
Re-writing the domestic role: Transnational migrants’ households between informal and formal social protection in Ecuador and in Spain
Ecuadorian migration to Spain can be described as an emblematic case of feminization of international migration. As the scholarship showed, this migration flow has been shaped by transnational female social networks in which different types of capital circulate and which are re-produced across generations, providing social protection for people involved in them, both migrants and non-migrants. Starting from three ethnographic studies conducted wi…
Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the Covid ‐19 crisis in Spain
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, the lockdowns brought about the loss of labour and social rights for many migrant women working in highly informal employment sectors. Drawing on digital ethnography, this article examines the role of migrant women in political mobilization within migrant associations during 2020 in Spain, when online interactions assumed primary importance. First, it shows how migrant organizations create bricolage by combi…
The unseen protagonists. Ecuadorians’ daughters between Ecuador and Southern Europe
Scholars consider Latin American migration toward Europe to be a case study in the feminization of international migration. However, these studies have not focused on second-generation girls. Beginning from a gender and intergenerational approach, this paper stresses the agency role played by the reunified teenage daughters of Ecuadorian migrants both in Ecuador as well as in Southern Europe. The discussion is based on two transnational ethnograp…
Mujeres migrantes en la era de la globalización. Ecuatorianas y senegalesas en Sevilla
Latin American Immigration to Spain: Discourses and practices from ‘la madre patria’
On the whole, Latin American migration currently represents the highest percentage of migration into the Spanish state. This situation results from a series of factors, combined in both the points of origin and destination, and relating to the economic policies of the emitting and receiving countries within the framework of globalization. However, despite the way in which the phenomenon is portrayed by politicians and the media, this predominance…
Pons Rodríguez, Lola (2012). El paisaje lingüístico de Sevilla. Lenguas y variedades en el paisaje urbano hispalense. Sevilla: Diputación de Sevilla, 311 pp
Reseña de: PONS RODRÍGUEZ, LOLA (2012). El paisaje lingüístico de Sevilla. Lenguas y variedades en el paisaje urbano hispalense. Sevilla: Diputación de Sevilla, 311 pp
The unseen protagonists. Ecuadorians’ daughters between Ecuador and Southern Europe
Scholars consider Latin American migration toward Europe to be a case study in the feminization of international migration. However, these studies have not focused on second-generation girls. Beginning from a gender and intergenerational approach, this paper stresses the agency role played by the reunified teenage daughters of Ecuadorian migrants both in Ecuador as well as in Southern Europe. The discussion is based on two transnational ethnograp…
Re-writing the domestic role: Transnational migrants’ households between informal and formal social protection in Ecuador and in Spain
Ecuadorian migration to Spain can be described as an emblematic case of feminization of international migration. As the scholarship showed, this migration flow has been shaped by transnational female social networks in which different types of capital circulate and which are re-produced across generations, providing social protection for people involved in them, both migrants and non-migrants. Starting from three ethnographic studies conducted wi…
On the Fringes of Social Protection: New Southern European Labour Migration to Germany
The last economic recession has exposed significant differences among EU countries revealing strong core–periphery dynamics. Freedom of movement in the EU has represented an opportunity for workers from peripheral countries to find better employment opportunities in the core countries. However, the mobility of EU workers has been questioned and “welfare chauvinism” has become stronger in most EU countries. Drawing from two extensive studies drive…
Bricolage in labor organizing practices: Spanish and Italian migrant activists in Berlin
This article analyzes how Southern European workers create bricolage by combining creatively organized practices of collective action, such as those of conventional labor unions, with self-created practices when facing oppressive labor relations and widespread downgrading of social mobility. We compare two cases of networks formed by Spanish and Italian migrant workers in Berlin: the Grupo de Acción Sindical and Berlin Migrant Strikers. Drawing o…
Struggling in pandemic times: Migrant women's virtual political organization during the Covid ‐19 crisis in Spain
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, the lockdowns brought about the loss of labour and social rights for many migrant women working in highly informal employment sectors. Drawing on digital ethnography, this article examines the role of migrant women in political mobilization within migrant associations during 2020 in Spain, when online interactions assumed primary importance. First, it shows how migrant organizations create bricolage by combi…
Advancing migration and health research by examining return migration
This essay offers an analysis of research on return migration and health by adopting the social determinants of health (SDH) framework proposed by the WHO. Specifically, we argue that the SDH are implicated in the decision to migrate, stay or return, which in itself also contributes to social health inequities. Most theoretical frameworks developed to study migration have predominantly considered primary migration movements. The lack of a fluid c…
Who cares? Civil society organizations as healthcare life vest for migrants in post troika Portugal
In Southern European societies such as the Portuguese, family and civil society play a relevant role in welfare policies, acting as complementary or supplementary 'safety-nets' to the state. In times of crises, migrants' access to healthcare is not only questioned but put at risk. This paper unveils the specific roles played by Civil Society Organisations' (CSOs) in providing healthcare to migrants in the aftermath of TROIKA in Portugal. By categ…
Disciplining Poverty: “Migrant” Workers in the Maze of German Welfare Bureaucracy
This article examines migrant workers’ experiences with the German welfare state, drawing on three empirical studies conducted in Berlin (2014-2021) with rejected third-country asylum seekers and Southern and Eastern European Union citizens. It highlights how state bureaucracies implement selective access to welfare through everyday practices conceptualised as “bureaucratic violence” (Graeber, 2012), which are the product of interaction between l…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works)