P Monforte
Biographic Data
| ID | 54368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Monforte |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Monforte |
| SIGNATURE | MONFORTE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4664-8067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Politics of diversity in the framing of blood donation: The in-and exclusion of racially minoritised blood donors on blood agency websites in Belgium and the United Kingdom
Ordinary people like myself’: Character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement
This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and of the changes that they aim to achieve through their actions. Focusing on the different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when they present their actions and their own role within the movement, we show that ‘character work’ – their effort to shape their own reputation – is an essential feature …
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones
Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…
From Vulnerability to Trust: Personal Encounters and Bordering Processes in the British Refugees Welcome Movement
This article examines the complex and ambivalent nature of the encounters between British volunteers and refugees within the 2015 Refugees Welcome movement. The 72 interviews we conducted with volunteers active in different charities and informal networks reveal the significance of the logic of trust in these encounters. We show that although participants often base their engagement on claims that disrupt dominant narratives about border controls…
Between Charity and Protest. The Politicisation of Refugee Support Volunteers
This article examines how refugee support volunteers based in Britain and in France negotiate the boundaries between charity (or humanitarian) action and social activism since the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. Scholarly literature has often separated charity and humanitarian action from social activism, as the former is seen as lacking the goal of social and political change that characterises the latter. The set of 147 in-depth interviews we conducted …
A Conversation with Phevos Simeonidis (Disinfaux Collective), 21 July 2021
In this interview with Nerina Boursinou and Pierre Monforte, Phevos Simeonidis-cofounder of the Disinfaux Collective-reflects on the role of civil society organizations in the field of refugee support in Greece, in particular through the focus on their relations with public authorities. The interview provides an account of the changing environment in the field of migration and the diversity of the organizations working to support refugees in Gree…
Bibliographie sélective
sur les Migrations Internationales. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur…
Protestors’ Emotional Work in Contexts of Marginalisation: The Emancipation of “Forced Migrants” in Germany
This article explores the relation between migrants’ political subjectivity and the emotional dimension of protest. Although a vast literature analyses these dimensions, few studies have explored how social movements aim to trigger processes of political subjectivity formation and emotional transformations in contexts in which activists face marginalisation. I propose to analyse the effects of such a context through the focus on a movement mobili…
Missing minorities” in blood donation: Rethinking blood procurement in Europe as a citizenship regime
Although European blood collection organizations are currently obtaining sufficient and safe blood from the majority population, they report having difficulty recruiting first and second-generation immigrants from non-European countries. Most existing studies on these underrepresented groups, who have been coined the “ missing minorities” in blood donation, have adopted an instrumental approach that focuses on the development of targeted recruitm…
Becoming an active citizen: The UK Citizenship Test
This article explores the effects of the UK citizenship test on migrants through the focus on the injunction to become an active citizen. We draw on qualitative interviews with 158 migrants of different nationalities who are at various stages in the process. We identify two responses. First, participants in our study drew on neo-liberal repertoires of active (knowledgeable) citizenship whereby they proved they are responsible and law-abiding agen…
It's like having one more family member: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks
Since 2015, the notion of hospitality has been a guiding principle and a key demand for individuals and organisations that provide direct support to refugees in Europe. Through a set of interviews conducted with volunteers active in the Refugees Welcome movement in Britain, France and Italy, this article explores the motivations and experiences of individuals who practise (private) hospitality by hosting refugees in their homes. Looking specifica…
Naturalization policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies
From compassion to critical resilience: Volunteering in the context of austerity
This article analyses the political dimension of volunteering in the context of austerity. It explores how the economic recession and the austerity measures taken by governments in the UK in recent years affect how volunteers define their engagement and whether they relate it to more political forms of collective action such as protest. The article analyses the narratives and life trajectories of volunteers active in five charities in the field o…
Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the 'Refugee Crisis
Since the 'refugee crisis' in 2015, civil society across Europe has participated in an unprecedented wave of support towards migrants. This article focuses on the volunteers engaged in this movement and explores how they relate emotions of compassion and evaluations about the 'deservingness' of refugees. We do so by analysing the moral dilemmas British volunteers face in their interaction with refugees, and the strategies they develop to avoid th…
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long-term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often presented as exclusionary in nature, in particular as it is based on the idea that access to citizenship has to be 'deserved'. In this paper, we aim to explore the citizenship tests 'from below', through the focus on the experience o…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
The border as a space of contention: The spatial strategies of protest against border controls in Europe
This article analyses the spatial dimension of social movements mobilising against border controls. Focusing on the case of the protests against European border controls, this paper shows that new spatial strategies of protest have emerged since the beginning of the 2000s. Movements construct collective actions that aim to identify border controls and occupy specific border sites. These new strategies are related to a transformation of the materi…
Key Concepts in Migration
"This book provides lucid and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it sets out to clarify the field by exploring relevant concepts in a direct and engaging way [...] It is an ideal resource for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying migration in s…
Comparing the protests of undocumented migrants beyond contexts: Collective Actions as Acts of Emancipation
In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power relations that undocumented migrants face. Given that they occupy a very specific position in society (i.e., they are neither included in nor completely excluded from citizenship), they experience similar forms of power relations vis…
Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Undocumented Migrants' Collective Actions
This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the relationship between undocumented migrants and state authorities at the local level through the concept of the citizenship regime and its specific application to undocumented migrants (which they describe as the 'borderline cit…
Le secteur associatif face aux politiques européennes d'immigration et d'asile: Quels acteurs pour quels modes d'européanisation
Parallèlement à l’intégration des politiques d’immigration et d’asile, les associations mobilisées sur ces enjeux se sont progressivement européanisées à travers différents modes : certaines « par le haut » en privilégiant la coopération avec les institutions européennes ; d’autres « par le bas » en privilégiant la contestation transnationale ; certaines, enfin, ont emprunté à ces deux dynamiques. Cet article explique ces différents modes d’europ…
Social Movements and Europeanization Processes: The Case of the French Associations Mobilizing around the Asylum Issue
This paper seeks to analyse the process of Europeanization of social movements mobilizing around the asylum policy since the middle of the 1990s. Taking the example of the principal French associations which have mobilized on this topic, the paper explores the dynamics that lead these associations to increasingly address the European institutions since the launching of the process of harmonisation of asylum policies. In particular, it shows that …
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long-term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often presented as exclusionary in nature, in particular as it is based on the idea that access to citizenship has to be 'deserved'. In this paper, we aim to explore the citizenship tests 'from below', through the focus on the experience o…
Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the 'Refugee Crisis
Since the 'refugee crisis' in 2015, civil society across Europe has participated in an unprecedented wave of support towards migrants. This article focuses on the volunteers engaged in this movement and explores how they relate emotions of compassion and evaluations about the 'deservingness' of refugees. We do so by analysing the moral dilemmas British volunteers face in their interaction with refugees, and the strategies they develop to avoid th…
Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Undocumented Migrants' Collective Actions
This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the relationship between undocumented migrants and state authorities at the local level through the concept of the citizenship regime and its specific application to undocumented migrants (which they describe as the 'borderline cit…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
It's like having one more family member: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks
Since 2015, the notion of hospitality has been a guiding principle and a key demand for individuals and organisations that provide direct support to refugees in Europe. Through a set of interviews conducted with volunteers active in the Refugees Welcome movement in Britain, France and Italy, this article explores the motivations and experiences of individuals who practise (private) hospitality by hosting refugees in their homes. Looking specifica…
Comparing the protests of undocumented migrants beyond contexts: Collective Actions as Acts of Emancipation
In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power relations that undocumented migrants face. Given that they occupy a very specific position in society (i.e., they are neither included in nor completely excluded from citizenship), they experience similar forms of power relations vis…
The border as a space of contention: The spatial strategies of protest against border controls in Europe
This article analyses the spatial dimension of social movements mobilising against border controls. Focusing on the case of the protests against European border controls, this paper shows that new spatial strategies of protest have emerged since the beginning of the 2000s. Movements construct collective actions that aim to identify border controls and occupy specific border sites. These new strategies are related to a transformation of the materi…
Naturalization policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies
From compassion to critical resilience: Volunteering in the context of austerity
This article analyses the political dimension of volunteering in the context of austerity. It explores how the economic recession and the austerity measures taken by governments in the UK in recent years affect how volunteers define their engagement and whether they relate it to more political forms of collective action such as protest. The article analyses the narratives and life trajectories of volunteers active in five charities in the field o…
Between Charity and Protest. The Politicisation of Refugee Support Volunteers
This article examines how refugee support volunteers based in Britain and in France negotiate the boundaries between charity (or humanitarian) action and social activism since the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. Scholarly literature has often separated charity and humanitarian action from social activism, as the former is seen as lacking the goal of social and political change that characterises the latter. The set of 147 in-depth interviews we conducted …
Becoming an active citizen: The UK Citizenship Test
This article explores the effects of the UK citizenship test on migrants through the focus on the injunction to become an active citizen. We draw on qualitative interviews with 158 migrants of different nationalities who are at various stages in the process. We identify two responses. First, participants in our study drew on neo-liberal repertoires of active (knowledgeable) citizenship whereby they proved they are responsible and law-abiding agen…
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones
Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…
Protestors’ Emotional Work in Contexts of Marginalisation: The Emancipation of “Forced Migrants” in Germany
This article explores the relation between migrants’ political subjectivity and the emotional dimension of protest. Although a vast literature analyses these dimensions, few studies have explored how social movements aim to trigger processes of political subjectivity formation and emotional transformations in contexts in which activists face marginalisation. I propose to analyse the effects of such a context through the focus on a movement mobili…
Le secteur associatif face aux politiques européennes d'immigration et d'asile: Quels acteurs pour quels modes d'européanisation
Parallèlement à l’intégration des politiques d’immigration et d’asile, les associations mobilisées sur ces enjeux se sont progressivement européanisées à travers différents modes : certaines « par le haut » en privilégiant la coopération avec les institutions européennes ; d’autres « par le bas » en privilégiant la contestation transnationale ; certaines, enfin, ont emprunté à ces deux dynamiques. Cet article explique ces différents modes d’europ…
Social Movements and Europeanization Processes: The Case of the French Associations Mobilizing around the Asylum Issue
This paper seeks to analyse the process of Europeanization of social movements mobilizing around the asylum policy since the middle of the 1990s. Taking the example of the principal French associations which have mobilized on this topic, the paper explores the dynamics that lead these associations to increasingly address the European institutions since the launching of the process of harmonisation of asylum policies. In particular, it shows that …
Social Movements and Europeanization Processes: The Case of the French Associations Mobilizing around the Asylum Issue
This paper seeks to analyse the process of Europeanization of social movements mobilizing around the asylum policy since the middle of the 1990s. Taking the example of the principal French associations which have mobilized on this topic, the paper explores the dynamics that lead these associations to increasingly address the European institutions since the launching of the process of harmonisation of asylum policies. In particular, it shows that …
Le secteur associatif face aux politiques européennes d'immigration et d'asile: Quels acteurs pour quels modes d'européanisation
Parallèlement à l’intégration des politiques d’immigration et d’asile, les associations mobilisées sur ces enjeux se sont progressivement européanisées à travers différents modes : certaines « par le haut » en privilégiant la coopération avec les institutions européennes ; d’autres « par le bas » en privilégiant la contestation transnationale ; certaines, enfin, ont emprunté à ces deux dynamiques. Cet article explique ces différents modes d’europ…
Mobilizing in Borderline Citizenship Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Undocumented Migrants' Collective Actions
This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the relationship between undocumented migrants and state authorities at the local level through the concept of the citizenship regime and its specific application to undocumented migrants (which they describe as the 'borderline cit…
Comparing the protests of undocumented migrants beyond contexts: Collective Actions as Acts of Emancipation
In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power relations that undocumented migrants face. Given that they occupy a very specific position in society (i.e., they are neither included in nor completely excluded from citizenship), they experience similar forms of power relations vis…
Key Concepts in Migration
"This book provides lucid and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers, and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it sets out to clarify the field by exploring relevant concepts in a direct and engaging way [...] It is an ideal resource for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying migration in s…
The border as a space of contention: The spatial strategies of protest against border controls in Europe
This article analyses the spatial dimension of social movements mobilising against border controls. Focusing on the case of the protests against European border controls, this paper shows that new spatial strategies of protest have emerged since the beginning of the 2000s. Movements construct collective actions that aim to identify border controls and occupy specific border sites. These new strategies are related to a transformation of the materi…
Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ narratives of the citizenship test process, drawing on 158 interviews with migrants in Leicester and London who are at different stages in the UK citizensh ip test process. In dialogue with three counter-figures in the critical na…
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long-term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often presented as exclusionary in nature, in particular as it is based on the idea that access to citizenship has to be 'deserved'. In this paper, we aim to explore the citizenship tests 'from below', through the focus on the experience o…
Naturalization policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies
From compassion to critical resilience: Volunteering in the context of austerity
This article analyses the political dimension of volunteering in the context of austerity. It explores how the economic recession and the austerity measures taken by governments in the UK in recent years affect how volunteers define their engagement and whether they relate it to more political forms of collective action such as protest. The article analyses the narratives and life trajectories of volunteers active in five charities in the field o…
Who Deserves Compassion? The Moral and Emotional Dilemmas of Volunteering in the 'Refugee Crisis
Since the 'refugee crisis' in 2015, civil society across Europe has participated in an unprecedented wave of support towards migrants. This article focuses on the volunteers engaged in this movement and explores how they relate emotions of compassion and evaluations about the 'deservingness' of refugees. We do so by analysing the moral dilemmas British volunteers face in their interaction with refugees, and the strategies they develop to avoid th…
Bibliographie sélective
sur les Migrations Internationales. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur…
Protestors’ Emotional Work in Contexts of Marginalisation: The Emancipation of “Forced Migrants” in Germany
This article explores the relation between migrants’ political subjectivity and the emotional dimension of protest. Although a vast literature analyses these dimensions, few studies have explored how social movements aim to trigger processes of political subjectivity formation and emotional transformations in contexts in which activists face marginalisation. I propose to analyse the effects of such a context through the focus on a movement mobili…
Missing minorities” in blood donation: Rethinking blood procurement in Europe as a citizenship regime
Although European blood collection organizations are currently obtaining sufficient and safe blood from the majority population, they report having difficulty recruiting first and second-generation immigrants from non-European countries. Most existing studies on these underrepresented groups, who have been coined the “ missing minorities” in blood donation, have adopted an instrumental approach that focuses on the development of targeted recruitm…
Becoming an active citizen: The UK Citizenship Test
This article explores the effects of the UK citizenship test on migrants through the focus on the injunction to become an active citizen. We draw on qualitative interviews with 158 migrants of different nationalities who are at various stages in the process. We identify two responses. First, participants in our study drew on neo-liberal repertoires of active (knowledgeable) citizenship whereby they proved they are responsible and law-abiding agen…
It's like having one more family member: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks
Since 2015, the notion of hospitality has been a guiding principle and a key demand for individuals and organisations that provide direct support to refugees in Europe. Through a set of interviews conducted with volunteers active in the Refugees Welcome movement in Britain, France and Italy, this article explores the motivations and experiences of individuals who practise (private) hospitality by hosting refugees in their homes. Looking specifica…
From Vulnerability to Trust: Personal Encounters and Bordering Processes in the British Refugees Welcome Movement
This article examines the complex and ambivalent nature of the encounters between British volunteers and refugees within the 2015 Refugees Welcome movement. The 72 interviews we conducted with volunteers active in different charities and informal networks reveal the significance of the logic of trust in these encounters. We show that although participants often base their engagement on claims that disrupt dominant narratives about border controls…
Between Charity and Protest. The Politicisation of Refugee Support Volunteers
This article examines how refugee support volunteers based in Britain and in France negotiate the boundaries between charity (or humanitarian) action and social activism since the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’. Scholarly literature has often separated charity and humanitarian action from social activism, as the former is seen as lacking the goal of social and political change that characterises the latter. The set of 147 in-depth interviews we conducted …
A Conversation with Phevos Simeonidis (Disinfaux Collective), 21 July 2021
In this interview with Nerina Boursinou and Pierre Monforte, Phevos Simeonidis-cofounder of the Disinfaux Collective-reflects on the role of civil society organizations in the field of refugee support in Greece, in particular through the focus on their relations with public authorities. The interview provides an account of the changing environment in the field of migration and the diversity of the organizations working to support refugees in Gree…
Ordinary people like myself’: Character work and modesty in the Refugees Welcome movement
This article uses discourse analysis to investigate how British volunteers involved in the Refugees Welcome movement give an account of their engagement and of the changes that they aim to achieve through their actions. Focusing on the different ways participants ‘do modesty’ when they present their actions and their own role within the movement, we show that ‘character work’ – their effort to shape their own reputation – is an essential feature …
Fragile Solidarities: Contestation and Ambiguity at European Borderzones
Borders as legal, social, and material aspaces of inclusion/exclusion constantly spark resistance, by both migrants and solidarity actors. In this article, we combine the dual observation of a proliferation of border control policies and of migrant and solidarity activism to analyse how different types of border control policies affect the forms of resistance that emerge in them. We inquire on three different cases: first the Calais region at the…
Politics of diversity in the framing of blood donation: The in-and exclusion of racially minoritised blood donors on blood agency websites in Belgium and the United Kingdom
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Citizenship (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)