Dotsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 48311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dotsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Dotsey |
| SIGNATURE | DOTSEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2164-1734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Polyrhythmic marginalities and chronopolitics: A rhythmanalysis of a railway station
The train station is a complex and controversial public space, characterized by a varied temporal dimension. • Multiple urban rhythms are identified in the railway station of Bergamo, Italy. • The crescendo of urban and infrastructure development, and the sinusoidal rhythms of commuters and travelers are analysed. • The rhythms of endurance of marginalised and homeless people are investigated. • A rhythmical reading of marginality is provided, sh…
Rethinking environment, social and governance (ESG) in critical minerals extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The global expansion of critical minerals supply chains has intensified scrutiny of environment, social and governance (ESG) performance, transforming access to international markets from resource-based to compliance-based. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds strategic global importance as the world’s leading producer of cobalt and a major producer of copper; however, persistent institutional and governance constraints undermine its geol…
Coping in Precarity: Strategies of Survival and Resistance of Forced Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Italy
Legal precarity has been used to describe the relations between ‘space, law and persons’ that produce illegality and shape the sociolegal exclusion of forced migrants. Precarious legal status is demarcated by hierarchies of legal and social membership and degrees of exclusion. Within the context of legal precarity, we explore the coping strategies used by forced migrants preceding and during the COVID‐19 period in Italy. Our analysis focuses on i…
Language Abuse: The Politicization and Categorization of People on the Move Through Language and Narrative
Over the last three decades, the once-distinct terms ‘asylum’ and ‘immigration’ have become conceptually intertwined. This process is almost complete in Europe, where politicians, media, the public, and even academia often speak of these concepts interchangeably. Blurring these concepts has implications for migratory people: it removes legal rights borne by the state and diminishes the claims of humanitarian protection seekers within these moveme…
Energy transition diplomacy: The EU’s pursuit of Africa's critical minerals for renewable energy at whose expense
The global push to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 accelerates the transition to clean and renewable energy. This shift requires renewable energy sources and a steady supply of critical minerals essential for low-emission technologies. Africa is well-positioned to contribute to this transition, with abundant reserves of renewable energy potential and critical raw materials such as cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. In contrast, the Euro…
Cities, Asylum Reception and Legal Uncertainty: National Integration Framework and the Limits of Local Authorities
While some (progressive) cities have been proactive in forced migrants' reception and integration policy formulation, the central state is ultimately the chief architect of migration policy and the legal framework. Legal status considerably shapes all facets of forced migrants' lifeworlds and thus has significant implications for policy and integration. The Italian government has recently made significant changes to its migration system, affectin…
The Effect of Covid-19 'Furlough' Scheme on Italian Skilled Migrants in Britain: Inclusive and Nonhostile Policies Improve Market Integration and Skills Match
The role of the ethnic economy in immigrant arrival and adaptation has been studied extensively with regard to unskilled or low-skilled migrants. However, their role and function for skilled migrants is less well understood. This research explores the use of ethnic economies for 20 Italian skilled migrants in Britain during the cost-of-living crisis (2021-2022). Our research offers two key insights. First, we find that skilled migrants utilize th…
Covid-19, Employment, and (the Limits of) Legal Status: Exploring Migrants' Precarious Experiences in Italy
The pandemic has had an unequal impact on the lives of Italian citizens. Italy, one of the worst-affected countries in Europe, has seen the most vulnerable and marginalized populations among the hardest hit by the pandemic's secondary effects. The various intersecting forms of vulnerability, risk, and precarity have significantly affected the lives of Italian migrants. Evidence from 25 semi-structured interviews and conversations with social work…
International Aid and Its Role in Shaping Agriculture Policy Narratives in Ghana
International aid in the form of development assistance helps developing countries meet their development needs. Aid is also used as a conduit to drive the interests of donor countries in recipient countries. In Ghana, there is a renewed interest from donors to drive agriculture transformation through investment in market-based policies. However, little is known about how development assistance is used by donor countries to promote their interest…
Covid-19 and the precarious low-skilled workforce in the European Union: Time to call the shots
This commentary highlights the critical role of low-skilled workers who are often considered unwanted populations within the European Union (EU) migration system that privileges high-skilled migrants, while neglecting the existence of low-skilled migrants, creating unfavorable job conditions for low-skilled migrants despite their considerable contributions to EU economies. Unfortunately, this wrenching problem became evident during the pandemic. …
Covid-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity
This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role-complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization-shapes their precarity. Utilizing…
Foreign Healthcare Workers and Covid-19 in Europe: The Paradox of Unemployed Skilled Labour
This report provides an overview of the skilled migrant health workforce and their contribution to health systems in European countries, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers at all skill levels have worked in key areas during the pandemic. Skilled migrant health workers, particularly medical practitioners and nurses, make up a significant portion of the frontline health workforce and are essential to keeping health s…
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies
Using evidence from participant observation and qualitative interviews with 54 sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants—"economic migrants," refugees (people with any international protection status), (refused) asylum-seekers and irregular migrants—this article identifies the housing barriers and the resources individuals use to cope with housing difficulties in the mid-sized city of Bergamo, Italy. The analysis highlights that while legal status is si…
“Seeing like integration”: An exploratory study of Bergamo’s integration model, Italy
The “refugee crisis” has drawn attention to the role of cities (local authorities) in asylum seekers and refugees' reception and integration processes, with many developing creative and innovative policies. The article explores the integration outcomes of the asylum seekers who participated in a peculiar local experimental integration model, “l'Accademia per l’Integrazione” [Integration Academy], in a somewhat “progressive” mid-sized city of Berg…
Covid-19 and Microcredit: Dissecting an NGO’s Training, Financial Support, and Women Empowerment Programmes
This paper reports the findings from a microcredit (financial inclusion) scheme that has been operated by a non-governmental organization since 2012 in a local community in Ghana, and sustained through the COVID-19 pandemic. It first examines microfinance, women’s empowerment and third-sector organizational dynamics. It then provides an overview of microfinance in Ghana within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by dissecting the organ…
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Housing precarity: A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental marke…
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case
The COVID-19 pandemic has unequally impacted the lives of Italian subjects. The article uses evidence from forty-seven semi-structured interviews with various migrant groups to illuminate how temporalities embedded in Italy’s migration governance shape migrants’ precarious legal status and access to welfare. The authors show that whereas migrants with secure legal status or citizenship have not engaged significantly with Italian bureaucracies, th…
Does Religious Faith Matter in Development Practice? Perspectives from the Savelugu-Nanton District in Northern Ghana
Religious faith and its role in development policy and practice has received much attention in recent years. However, there is relatively limited knowledge of how Christian faith is manifested in the day-to-day administration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and how that shapes their relationships with intended beneficiaries in a Muslim-dominated community. This article addresses the knowledge gap by examining how the Christian identity o…
Housing precarity: A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental marke…
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies
Using evidence from participant observation and qualitative interviews with 54 sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants—"economic migrants," refugees (people with any international protection status), (refused) asylum-seekers and irregular migrants—this article identifies the housing barriers and the resources individuals use to cope with housing difficulties in the mid-sized city of Bergamo, Italy. The analysis highlights that while legal status is si…
Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case
The COVID-19 pandemic has unequally impacted the lives of Italian subjects. The article uses evidence from forty-seven semi-structured interviews with various migrant groups to illuminate how temporalities embedded in Italy’s migration governance shape migrants’ precarious legal status and access to welfare. The authors show that whereas migrants with secure legal status or citizenship have not engaged significantly with Italian bureaucracies, th…
Energy transition diplomacy: The EU’s pursuit of Africa's critical minerals for renewable energy at whose expense
The global push to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 accelerates the transition to clean and renewable energy. This shift requires renewable energy sources and a steady supply of critical minerals essential for low-emission technologies. Africa is well-positioned to contribute to this transition, with abundant reserves of renewable energy potential and critical raw materials such as cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. In contrast, the Euro…
Foreign Healthcare Workers and Covid-19 in Europe: The Paradox of Unemployed Skilled Labour
This report provides an overview of the skilled migrant health workforce and their contribution to health systems in European countries, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers at all skill levels have worked in key areas during the pandemic. Skilled migrant health workers, particularly medical practitioners and nurses, make up a significant portion of the frontline health workforce and are essential to keeping health s…
Does Religious Faith Matter in Development Practice? Perspectives from the Savelugu-Nanton District in Northern Ghana
Religious faith and its role in development policy and practice has received much attention in recent years. However, there is relatively limited knowledge of how Christian faith is manifested in the day-to-day administration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and how that shapes their relationships with intended beneficiaries in a Muslim-dominated community. This article addresses the knowledge gap by examining how the Christian identity o…
Covid-19 and the precarious low-skilled workforce in the European Union: Time to call the shots
This commentary highlights the critical role of low-skilled workers who are often considered unwanted populations within the European Union (EU) migration system that privileges high-skilled migrants, while neglecting the existence of low-skilled migrants, creating unfavorable job conditions for low-skilled migrants despite their considerable contributions to EU economies. Unfortunately, this wrenching problem became evident during the pandemic. …
Cities, Asylum Reception and Legal Uncertainty: National Integration Framework and the Limits of Local Authorities
While some (progressive) cities have been proactive in forced migrants' reception and integration policy formulation, the central state is ultimately the chief architect of migration policy and the legal framework. Legal status considerably shapes all facets of forced migrants' lifeworlds and thus has significant implications for policy and integration. The Italian government has recently made significant changes to its migration system, affectin…
Does Religious Faith Matter in Development Practice? Perspectives from the Savelugu-Nanton District in Northern Ghana
Religious faith and its role in development policy and practice has received much attention in recent years. However, there is relatively limited knowledge of how Christian faith is manifested in the day-to-day administration of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and how that shapes their relationships with intended beneficiaries in a Muslim-dominated community. This article addresses the knowledge gap by examining how the Christian identity o…
Housing precarity: A fourfold epistemological lancet for dissecting the housing conditions of migrants
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental marke…
Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy
Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case
The COVID-19 pandemic has unequally impacted the lives of Italian subjects. The article uses evidence from forty-seven semi-structured interviews with various migrant groups to illuminate how temporalities embedded in Italy’s migration governance shape migrants’ precarious legal status and access to welfare. The authors show that whereas migrants with secure legal status or citizenship have not engaged significantly with Italian bureaucracies, th…
“Seeing like integration”: An exploratory study of Bergamo’s integration model, Italy
The “refugee crisis” has drawn attention to the role of cities (local authorities) in asylum seekers and refugees' reception and integration processes, with many developing creative and innovative policies. The article explores the integration outcomes of the asylum seekers who participated in a peculiar local experimental integration model, “l'Accademia per l’Integrazione” [Integration Academy], in a somewhat “progressive” mid-sized city of Berg…
Covid-19 and Microcredit: Dissecting an NGO’s Training, Financial Support, and Women Empowerment Programmes
This paper reports the findings from a microcredit (financial inclusion) scheme that has been operated by a non-governmental organization since 2012 in a local community in Ghana, and sustained through the COVID-19 pandemic. It first examines microfinance, women’s empowerment and third-sector organizational dynamics. It then provides an overview of microfinance in Ghana within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by dissecting the organ…
Paradoxical migrant allyship: The adoption of a disciplinary model of 'compulsory integration' for asylum seekers in Italy
Recent scholarship has focused extensively on the deployment of technologies of security as a tactic of migration governance. The analyses have largely been on the effect of prioritising state security over migrant rights and the subsequent impact on their well-being. In our analysis of a migrant accommodation centre called the L’Accademia d’Integrazione (Bergamo, Italy) we contribute to this literature through a multi-scalar analysis of the plac…
Covid-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity
This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role-complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization-shapes their precarity. Utilizing…
Foreign Healthcare Workers and Covid-19 in Europe: The Paradox of Unemployed Skilled Labour
This report provides an overview of the skilled migrant health workforce and their contribution to health systems in European countries, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Migrant workers at all skill levels have worked in key areas during the pandemic. Skilled migrant health workers, particularly medical practitioners and nurses, make up a significant portion of the frontline health workforce and are essential to keeping health s…
Migration, (il)legal status and housing precarity: Difficulties and coping strategies
Using evidence from participant observation and qualitative interviews with 54 sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants—"economic migrants," refugees (people with any international protection status), (refused) asylum-seekers and irregular migrants—this article identifies the housing barriers and the resources individuals use to cope with housing difficulties in the mid-sized city of Bergamo, Italy. The analysis highlights that while legal status is si…
Covid-19 and the precarious low-skilled workforce in the European Union: Time to call the shots
This commentary highlights the critical role of low-skilled workers who are often considered unwanted populations within the European Union (EU) migration system that privileges high-skilled migrants, while neglecting the existence of low-skilled migrants, creating unfavorable job conditions for low-skilled migrants despite their considerable contributions to EU economies. Unfortunately, this wrenching problem became evident during the pandemic. …
Language Abuse: The Politicization and Categorization of People on the Move Through Language and Narrative
Over the last three decades, the once-distinct terms ‘asylum’ and ‘immigration’ have become conceptually intertwined. This process is almost complete in Europe, where politicians, media, the public, and even academia often speak of these concepts interchangeably. Blurring these concepts has implications for migratory people: it removes legal rights borne by the state and diminishes the claims of humanitarian protection seekers within these moveme…
Energy transition diplomacy: The EU’s pursuit of Africa's critical minerals for renewable energy at whose expense
The global push to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 accelerates the transition to clean and renewable energy. This shift requires renewable energy sources and a steady supply of critical minerals essential for low-emission technologies. Africa is well-positioned to contribute to this transition, with abundant reserves of renewable energy potential and critical raw materials such as cobalt, lithium, and rare earth elements. In contrast, the Euro…
Cities, Asylum Reception and Legal Uncertainty: National Integration Framework and the Limits of Local Authorities
While some (progressive) cities have been proactive in forced migrants' reception and integration policy formulation, the central state is ultimately the chief architect of migration policy and the legal framework. Legal status considerably shapes all facets of forced migrants' lifeworlds and thus has significant implications for policy and integration. The Italian government has recently made significant changes to its migration system, affectin…
The Effect of Covid-19 'Furlough' Scheme on Italian Skilled Migrants in Britain: Inclusive and Nonhostile Policies Improve Market Integration and Skills Match
The role of the ethnic economy in immigrant arrival and adaptation has been studied extensively with regard to unskilled or low-skilled migrants. However, their role and function for skilled migrants is less well understood. This research explores the use of ethnic economies for 20 Italian skilled migrants in Britain during the cost-of-living crisis (2021-2022). Our research offers two key insights. First, we find that skilled migrants utilize th…
Covid-19, Employment, and (the Limits of) Legal Status: Exploring Migrants' Precarious Experiences in Italy
The pandemic has had an unequal impact on the lives of Italian citizens. Italy, one of the worst-affected countries in Europe, has seen the most vulnerable and marginalized populations among the hardest hit by the pandemic's secondary effects. The various intersecting forms of vulnerability, risk, and precarity have significantly affected the lives of Italian migrants. Evidence from 25 semi-structured interviews and conversations with social work…
International Aid and Its Role in Shaping Agriculture Policy Narratives in Ghana
International aid in the form of development assistance helps developing countries meet their development needs. Aid is also used as a conduit to drive the interests of donor countries in recipient countries. In Ghana, there is a renewed interest from donors to drive agriculture transformation through investment in market-based policies. However, little is known about how development assistance is used by donor countries to promote their interest…
Polyrhythmic marginalities and chronopolitics: A rhythmanalysis of a railway station
The train station is a complex and controversial public space, characterized by a varied temporal dimension. • Multiple urban rhythms are identified in the railway station of Bergamo, Italy. • The crescendo of urban and infrastructure development, and the sinusoidal rhythms of commuters and travelers are analysed. • The rhythms of endurance of marginalised and homeless people are investigated. • A rhythmical reading of marginality is provided, sh…
Rethinking environment, social and governance (ESG) in critical minerals extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The global expansion of critical minerals supply chains has intensified scrutiny of environment, social and governance (ESG) performance, transforming access to international markets from resource-based to compliance-based. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds strategic global importance as the world’s leading producer of cobalt and a major producer of copper; however, persistent institutional and governance constraints undermine its geol…
Coping in Precarity: Strategies of Survival and Resistance of Forced Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Italy
Legal precarity has been used to describe the relations between ‘space, law and persons’ that produce illegality and shape the sociolegal exclusion of forced migrants. Precarious legal status is demarcated by hierarchies of legal and social membership and degrees of exclusion. Within the context of legal precarity, we explore the coping strategies used by forced migrants preceding and during the COVID‐19 period in Italy. Our analysis focuses on i…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Precarity (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Law (6 works)