A Massa
Biographic Data
| ID | 46887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Massa |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Massa |
| SIGNATURE | MASSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples - L'Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0588-6958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shadows of Motherhood: Disrupted Reproductions, Future, and Subjectivities among Eritrean Women in Italy
Based on an ethnographic research conducted among Eritrean migrants in Italy, this article explores life stories and narratives of women who have not entered into motherhood as both themselves and their diaspora and transnational kinship networks expected. It understands frustrated desires of motherhood as a gendered space of imagination where individual expectations, aspirations and desires evolve over time. It investigates how women’s subjectiv…
Im/Mobility Dreams. Rethinking Young Eritreans' Migratory Trajectories
Based on ethnography conducted in Tigray (northern Ethiopia), this article investigates narratives, experiences, and imaginaries of Eritrean refugees about their past journeys and their desired and hindered future ones. It aims at scrutinizing some of the analytical dichotomies through which contemporary migration is described (i.e., forced and voluntary mobility, mobility and immobility, spatial im/mobility and existential im/mobility, migration…
Waiting for an opportunity'. Future, transit and higher education among Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia
This article investigates the experience of waiting of Eritrean refugees attending Ethiopian universities and the role they attribute to higher education. Young Eritreans usually experience Ethiopia as a temporary stage within longer migratory trajectories towards their desired destinations. However, due to the current regimes of mobility, they often remain stuck. Drawing from an ethnography conducted in the Northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle, th…
Vulnerable homes on the move: An introduction
In a world of rampant inequality, when millions seek out better futures elsewhere, this introduction situates critical experiences of dwelling within recent debates on home and migration. Seeing vulnerability as an active condition, this theme section records the attempts of individuals and groups on the move in fashioning a home despite adverse socio-cultural, economical, and political situations. Our argumentation considers: the imbrication of …
“All we need is a home”: Eviction, vulnerability, and the struggle for a home by migrants from the Horn of Africa in Rome
This article retraces the aftermath of the eviction of a squatted building that took place in Rome (2017). It draws on ethnography among Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants, analyzing their search for home, and critically engages with the concept of vulnerability. It explores how the evictees—hundreds of people living in “vulnerable homes”—coped with this event by relying on community ties and the process of home-making enacted in an otherwise empty …
Much More Than Just Money: Investigating Remittances Across Time and Place in the Eritrean Context
Remittances have played crucial and shifting roles in Eritrea and its diaspora. They were fundamental to the achievement of national independence and are a resource with which the current government strengthens its power. Households have been reliant on remittances for survival, while for migrants they have been crucial to reinforce their sense of national belonging. Drawing from fieldwork, this article analyses remittances as a powerful tool to …
The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home: Potentials and Dilemmas of Homemaking in the Public Among the Somali Swedes in Rinkeby, Stockholm
Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of…
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories
This article introduces the notion of ‘accumulated homelessness’ to account for the repeated loss and lack of home experienced by many migrants in Europe today. Through the lens of home and homelessness, we argue that the debate on protracted displacement—often applied only to developing countries—should be extended to Europe. Going beyond the idea of shelterlessness, we consider homelessness as a multidimensional and multiscalar condition which …
Collective thinking in the field: Distributed cognition in large-scale qualitative research
Comment étudier aujourd’hui la mobilité, en pratique ? Les multiples plaidoyers en faveur des ethnographies multi-situées (depuis Marcus, 1995) ont favorisé la multiplication des enquêtes qualitatives internationales ; mais la transnationalisation de méthodes ethnographiques, développées à l’échelle locale, suscite de nouveaux défis. Dans cet article, les membres du projet ERC HOMInG reviennent sur les difficultés rencontrées, et solutions dévelo…
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs
Families at a distance, distances within families: Borders and emotional bonds among migrants from Eritrea
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed community, bonded together by solidarities, feelings of belonging and kinship relationships. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, this article sheds light on migrant family members living in different coun…
Borders and boundaries as resources for mobility. Multiple regimes of mobility and incoherent trajectories on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border
"So, now I am Eritrean": Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility
“So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility
Borders and boundaries as resources for mobility. Multiple regimes of mobility and incoherent trajectories on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories
This article introduces the notion of ‘accumulated homelessness’ to account for the repeated loss and lack of home experienced by many migrants in Europe today. Through the lens of home and homelessness, we argue that the debate on protracted displacement—often applied only to developing countries—should be extended to Europe. Going beyond the idea of shelterlessness, we consider homelessness as a multidimensional and multiscalar condition which …
Families at a distance, distances within families: Borders and emotional bonds among migrants from Eritrea
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed community, bonded together by solidarities, feelings of belonging and kinship relationships. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, this article sheds light on migrant family members living in different coun…
Waiting for an opportunity'. Future, transit and higher education among Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia
This article investigates the experience of waiting of Eritrean refugees attending Ethiopian universities and the role they attribute to higher education. Young Eritreans usually experience Ethiopia as a temporary stage within longer migratory trajectories towards their desired destinations. However, due to the current regimes of mobility, they often remain stuck. Drawing from an ethnography conducted in the Northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle, th…
"So, now I am Eritrean": Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility
“So, now I am Eritrean”: Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility
Borders and boundaries as resources for mobility. Multiple regimes of mobility and incoherent trajectories on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border
Collective thinking in the field: Distributed cognition in large-scale qualitative research
Comment étudier aujourd’hui la mobilité, en pratique ? Les multiples plaidoyers en faveur des ethnographies multi-situées (depuis Marcus, 1995) ont favorisé la multiplication des enquêtes qualitatives internationales ; mais la transnationalisation de méthodes ethnographiques, développées à l’échelle locale, suscite de nouveaux défis. Dans cet article, les membres du projet ERC HOMInG reviennent sur les difficultés rencontrées, et solutions dévelo…
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs
Families at a distance, distances within families: Borders and emotional bonds among migrants from Eritrea
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed community, bonded together by solidarities, feelings of belonging and kinship relationships. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, this article sheds light on migrant family members living in different coun…
The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home: Potentials and Dilemmas of Homemaking in the Public Among the Somali Swedes in Rinkeby, Stockholm
Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of…
Accumulated Homelessness: Analysing Protracted Displacement along Eritreans’ Life Histories
This article introduces the notion of ‘accumulated homelessness’ to account for the repeated loss and lack of home experienced by many migrants in Europe today. Through the lens of home and homelessness, we argue that the debate on protracted displacement—often applied only to developing countries—should be extended to Europe. Going beyond the idea of shelterlessness, we consider homelessness as a multidimensional and multiscalar condition which …
Vulnerable homes on the move: An introduction
In a world of rampant inequality, when millions seek out better futures elsewhere, this introduction situates critical experiences of dwelling within recent debates on home and migration. Seeing vulnerability as an active condition, this theme section records the attempts of individuals and groups on the move in fashioning a home despite adverse socio-cultural, economical, and political situations. Our argumentation considers: the imbrication of …
“All we need is a home”: Eviction, vulnerability, and the struggle for a home by migrants from the Horn of Africa in Rome
This article retraces the aftermath of the eviction of a squatted building that took place in Rome (2017). It draws on ethnography among Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants, analyzing their search for home, and critically engages with the concept of vulnerability. It explores how the evictees—hundreds of people living in “vulnerable homes”—coped with this event by relying on community ties and the process of home-making enacted in an otherwise empty …
Much More Than Just Money: Investigating Remittances Across Time and Place in the Eritrean Context
Remittances have played crucial and shifting roles in Eritrea and its diaspora. They were fundamental to the achievement of national independence and are a resource with which the current government strengthens its power. Households have been reliant on remittances for survival, while for migrants they have been crucial to reinforce their sense of national belonging. Drawing from fieldwork, this article analyses remittances as a powerful tool to …
Waiting for an opportunity'. Future, transit and higher education among Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia
This article investigates the experience of waiting of Eritrean refugees attending Ethiopian universities and the role they attribute to higher education. Young Eritreans usually experience Ethiopia as a temporary stage within longer migratory trajectories towards their desired destinations. However, due to the current regimes of mobility, they often remain stuck. Drawing from an ethnography conducted in the Northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle, th…
Im/Mobility Dreams. Rethinking Young Eritreans' Migratory Trajectories
Based on ethnography conducted in Tigray (northern Ethiopia), this article investigates narratives, experiences, and imaginaries of Eritrean refugees about their past journeys and their desired and hindered future ones. It aims at scrutinizing some of the analytical dichotomies through which contemporary migration is described (i.e., forced and voluntary mobility, mobility and immobility, spatial im/mobility and existential im/mobility, migration…
Shadows of Motherhood: Disrupted Reproductions, Future, and Subjectivities among Eritrean Women in Italy
Based on an ethnographic research conducted among Eritrean migrants in Italy, this article explores life stories and narratives of women who have not entered into motherhood as both themselves and their diaspora and transnational kinship networks expected. It understands frustrated desires of motherhood as a gendered space of imagination where individual expectations, aspirations and desires evolve over time. It investigates how women’s subjectiv…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · African history and culture analysis (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works)