Silvia Aru
Biographic Data
| ID | 259472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Aru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Aru |
| SIGNATURE | ARU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7411-7020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enduring crises, dynamic border work: Migration governance in Ventimiglia since Covid-19
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Roja migrant camp in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia, near France, was closed on health grounds. This was a critical moment for border management at Ventimiglia, which has been a strategic area in the EU's internal border regime since 2015, when France reintroduced systematic border controls. This article takes its cue from this event to explore the interplay between institutional border work and…
Adaptive and Solidarity Counter Maps for Individuals in Transit at the Ventimiglia Border
Nongovernmental organizations, churches, associations, activists, individuals, facilitators, and migrants themselves have deployed various support practices for border transgressions and dwellings. Essential to that effort is the acquisition and circulation of the underground knowledge related to mobility. The “right information” is fundamental in determining directions to movement and levels of risk embedded in various routes as well as in const…
Student vigilance and mobility: Exploring alertness and social spaces among international students in Italy
A university education offers a chance for upward mobility to many international students. This “moving up” is often encouraged by family networks both for economic and social reasons. International students are encouraged to look for high-ranking universities worldwide to seek improved socio-economic positionings. Once students get to their destination country, however, they may experience feelings of isolation. This paper examines how internati…
Deserving or undeserving
This paper documents the initial phase of the "National Alien Services" program (LVV in its Dutch acronym), intended to shelter undocumented people in the Netherlands from 2019 to 2022. The programme established a national network of guidance and reception facilities for undocumented migrants in five major Dutch cities to put previous urban-level initiatives on a more uniform basis. This paper analyzes the implementation of the LVV in Amsterdam, …
From fieldwork to frames: Insights from an auto‐ethnographic comic on the French‐Italian border of Ventimiglia
This paper examines The diary from the border: Ventimiglia , an auto‐ethnographic comic based on intensive fieldwork in the Italian border city of Ventimiglia from September to December 2018. The primary objective of my empirical research was to explore the socio‐spatial effects of France's reintroduction of border controls in the area since 2015, mainly targeting irregular mobilities within the European Union (EU). This study presents the auto‐e…
Memories from the 'invisible city: Migration traces at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia
Since the reintroduction of border control at the French-Italian border in 2015, the town of Ventimiglia has witnessed an increasing number of migrants who are deemed illegal in the eyes of the current EU migration system. These people have been blocked or slowed down in their attempt to continue their journeys. This article examines around 120 drawings and writings left by migrants in Ventimiglia at the ‘Eufemia’ InfoPoint opened by Progetto20k,…
Battleship at the port of Europe: Italy's closed-port policy and its legitimizing narratives
From March 2018 to August 2019, during Matteo Salvini's mandate as Minister of the Interior, Italy implemented the so-called ‘closed-port policy’, the closure of Italy's ports to migrant-rescue ships. This policy was initially pursued by Salvini's direct will through circulars before being justified ex-post by a legislative act. This paper analyses the lively parliamentary debates around rescue at sea in order to illustrate the majority's discurs…
I had no idea that Europe had internal borders: Migrants’ ‘secondary movements’ before the EU internal border regime
This paper looks at the so-called ‘secondary movements’, namely, migrants’ unauthorized movements across Member States of the European Union (EU). Over the past few years, secondary movements have become a main concern on the EU political agenda because they seem unstoppable, despite the more rigid migration regime designed at different levels to manage them. Secondary movements are a relatively understudied topic within the vast critical migrati…
La “grande bellezza”: Thirty years of Italian set locations
From the farthest north to the deepest south, the cities, towns, and countryside of Italy have provided set locations which show us images of an Italy that is multiform and various. Based on a massive database of more than 5000 Italian-set films from 1988 to 2016, this paper explores the geography of Italian set locations and their related cinematic landscapes. In order to achieve this goal, the study proceeds in two phases. First, the paper iden…
Abandonment, Agency, Control: Migrants’ Camps in Ventimiglia
This article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants’ presence in Ventimiglia—an Italian city on the north‐west border—and migrants’ agency, following the reintroduction of French border controls in 2015. The study looks at different kinds of camps: the formal one run by the Red Cross and the makeshift camps and settlements that sprang up over time. This work contributes to the academic debate on the interplay between migrants and …
From the Margins and on the Move: Migrants' agency in the spotlight
The Migrant Passage. Clandestine Journeys from Central America, by Noelle Kateri Brigden, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2019. At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean, by Ċet
The margins ‘in-between’: A case of multimodal ethnography
The paper presents a case of engaged ethnography developed by a group of geographers from the University of Cagliari focusing on the everyday experience of urban marginality by the residents of Sant’Elia, a low-income district in Cagliari, Italy. Stigmatised for being ‘at the margins’ of the city, the district reveals on the one hand, degraded socio-economic conditions and, on the other hand, a strong sense of identity and belonging among its inh…
Territori e lingue in diaspora: Italiani a Vancouver
Abandonment, Agency, Control: Migrants’ Camps in Ventimiglia
This article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants’ presence in Ventimiglia—an Italian city on the north‐west border—and migrants’ agency, following the reintroduction of French border controls in 2015. The study looks at different kinds of camps: the formal one run by the Red Cross and the makeshift camps and settlements that sprang up over time. This work contributes to the academic debate on the interplay between migrants and …
I had no idea that Europe had internal borders: Migrants’ ‘secondary movements’ before the EU internal border regime
This paper looks at the so-called ‘secondary movements’, namely, migrants’ unauthorized movements across Member States of the European Union (EU). Over the past few years, secondary movements have become a main concern on the EU political agenda because they seem unstoppable, despite the more rigid migration regime designed at different levels to manage them. Secondary movements are a relatively understudied topic within the vast critical migrati…
The margins ‘in-between’: A case of multimodal ethnography
The paper presents a case of engaged ethnography developed by a group of geographers from the University of Cagliari focusing on the everyday experience of urban marginality by the residents of Sant’Elia, a low-income district in Cagliari, Italy. Stigmatised for being ‘at the margins’ of the city, the district reveals on the one hand, degraded socio-economic conditions and, on the other hand, a strong sense of identity and belonging among its inh…
Memories from the 'invisible city: Migration traces at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia
Since the reintroduction of border control at the French-Italian border in 2015, the town of Ventimiglia has witnessed an increasing number of migrants who are deemed illegal in the eyes of the current EU migration system. These people have been blocked or slowed down in their attempt to continue their journeys. This article examines around 120 drawings and writings left by migrants in Ventimiglia at the ‘Eufemia’ InfoPoint opened by Progetto20k,…
Battleship at the port of Europe: Italy's closed-port policy and its legitimizing narratives
From March 2018 to August 2019, during Matteo Salvini's mandate as Minister of the Interior, Italy implemented the so-called ‘closed-port policy’, the closure of Italy's ports to migrant-rescue ships. This policy was initially pursued by Salvini's direct will through circulars before being justified ex-post by a legislative act. This paper analyses the lively parliamentary debates around rescue at sea in order to illustrate the majority's discurs…
Territori e lingue in diaspora: Italiani a Vancouver
The margins ‘in-between’: A case of multimodal ethnography
The paper presents a case of engaged ethnography developed by a group of geographers from the University of Cagliari focusing on the everyday experience of urban marginality by the residents of Sant’Elia, a low-income district in Cagliari, Italy. Stigmatised for being ‘at the margins’ of the city, the district reveals on the one hand, degraded socio-economic conditions and, on the other hand, a strong sense of identity and belonging among its inh…
From the Margins and on the Move: Migrants' agency in the spotlight
The Migrant Passage. Clandestine Journeys from Central America, by Noelle Kateri Brigden, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2019. At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean, by Ċet
La “grande bellezza”: Thirty years of Italian set locations
From the farthest north to the deepest south, the cities, towns, and countryside of Italy have provided set locations which show us images of an Italy that is multiform and various. Based on a massive database of more than 5000 Italian-set films from 1988 to 2016, this paper explores the geography of Italian set locations and their related cinematic landscapes. In order to achieve this goal, the study proceeds in two phases. First, the paper iden…
Abandonment, Agency, Control: Migrants’ Camps in Ventimiglia
This article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants’ presence in Ventimiglia—an Italian city on the north‐west border—and migrants’ agency, following the reintroduction of French border controls in 2015. The study looks at different kinds of camps: the formal one run by the Red Cross and the makeshift camps and settlements that sprang up over time. This work contributes to the academic debate on the interplay between migrants and …
I had no idea that Europe had internal borders: Migrants’ ‘secondary movements’ before the EU internal border regime
This paper looks at the so-called ‘secondary movements’, namely, migrants’ unauthorized movements across Member States of the European Union (EU). Over the past few years, secondary movements have become a main concern on the EU political agenda because they seem unstoppable, despite the more rigid migration regime designed at different levels to manage them. Secondary movements are a relatively understudied topic within the vast critical migrati…
Battleship at the port of Europe: Italy's closed-port policy and its legitimizing narratives
From March 2018 to August 2019, during Matteo Salvini's mandate as Minister of the Interior, Italy implemented the so-called ‘closed-port policy’, the closure of Italy's ports to migrant-rescue ships. This policy was initially pursued by Salvini's direct will through circulars before being justified ex-post by a legislative act. This paper analyses the lively parliamentary debates around rescue at sea in order to illustrate the majority's discurs…
Deserving or undeserving
This paper documents the initial phase of the "National Alien Services" program (LVV in its Dutch acronym), intended to shelter undocumented people in the Netherlands from 2019 to 2022. The programme established a national network of guidance and reception facilities for undocumented migrants in five major Dutch cities to put previous urban-level initiatives on a more uniform basis. This paper analyzes the implementation of the LVV in Amsterdam, …
From fieldwork to frames: Insights from an auto‐ethnographic comic on the French‐Italian border of Ventimiglia
This paper examines The diary from the border: Ventimiglia , an auto‐ethnographic comic based on intensive fieldwork in the Italian border city of Ventimiglia from September to December 2018. The primary objective of my empirical research was to explore the socio‐spatial effects of France's reintroduction of border controls in the area since 2015, mainly targeting irregular mobilities within the European Union (EU). This study presents the auto‐e…
Memories from the 'invisible city: Migration traces at the French-Italian border of Ventimiglia
Since the reintroduction of border control at the French-Italian border in 2015, the town of Ventimiglia has witnessed an increasing number of migrants who are deemed illegal in the eyes of the current EU migration system. These people have been blocked or slowed down in their attempt to continue their journeys. This article examines around 120 drawings and writings left by migrants in Ventimiglia at the ‘Eufemia’ InfoPoint opened by Progetto20k,…
Adaptive and Solidarity Counter Maps for Individuals in Transit at the Ventimiglia Border
Nongovernmental organizations, churches, associations, activists, individuals, facilitators, and migrants themselves have deployed various support practices for border transgressions and dwellings. Essential to that effort is the acquisition and circulation of the underground knowledge related to mobility. The “right information” is fundamental in determining directions to movement and levels of risk embedded in various routes as well as in const…
Student vigilance and mobility: Exploring alertness and social spaces among international students in Italy
A university education offers a chance for upward mobility to many international students. This “moving up” is often encouraged by family networks both for economic and social reasons. International students are encouraged to look for high-ranking universities worldwide to seek improved socio-economic positionings. Once students get to their destination country, however, they may experience feelings of isolation. This paper examines how internati…
Enduring crises, dynamic border work: Migration governance in Ventimiglia since Covid-19
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Roja migrant camp in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia, near France, was closed on health grounds. This was a critical moment for border management at Ventimiglia, which has been a strategic area in the EU's internal border regime since 2015, when France reintroduced systematic border controls. This article takes its cue from this event to explore the interplay between institutional border work and…
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