R Altin
Biographic Data
| ID | 70746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Altin |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Altin |
| SIGNATURE | ALTIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trieste |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5545-2739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Border Areas beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
This article explores civic activism and informal hospitality along the Balkan route, focusing on the border city of Trieste and the Silos, an abandoned building that has served as an informal hub for displaced people for nearly a decade. Using an ethnographic approach, it examines how activists, humanitarian organizations, migrants, and citizens have created complex entanglements of solidarity beyond formal reception systems. Through the iceberg…
Tracce e rimozioni
Partendo da una ricerca etnografica sulle migrazioni nell’area di frontiera italo-slovena di Trieste l’articolo utilizza un approccio comparativo per indagare cosa portano con sé i migranti e cosa rimane ‘abbandonato’ in zona di confine in due diversi transiti migratori: i profughi istriani del dopoguerra (1945-60) e richiedenti asilo in arrivo dalla rotta balcanica (2014-2024). Il focus è la ‘materialità politica’ di quest’area di frontiera con …
Sofferenze cumulative, memorie depositate. Corpi, luoghi, diaspore
Quando le esperienze di afflizione si depositano nelle memorie individuali e collettive, l’etnografia è chiamata ad esplorare gli effetti della violazione, interrogandosi sui processi da osservare per raccontare l’accumulo delle sofferenze e sulle poetiche, incluse le opacità e i silenzi, con cui le persone si rapportano agli eventi che le hanno colpite, li esprimono o li gestiscono. Abbiamo impostato questo dossier tematico a partire dalla lette…
Memorie dislocate e biografie spezzate di Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati
L’articolo analizza le violenze e sofferenze riportate dai minori stranieri non accompagnati che arrivano via terra nella zona transfrontaliera di Trieste; si tratta di forme di violenza strutturale ‘stratificate’ nello spazio e nel tempo, a partire dalle cause di migrazione, al debito contratto per poter partire, all’abbandono prematuro dalla famiglia per poter accedere al sistema di protezione internazionale europea che prevede solo poche categ…
Displaced memories in the Trieste border area
This paper aims to analyse the intertwined migrant mobility and the role of migrants’ memories by comparing different refugee flows arriving in the border area of Trieste (Italy) in different phases: the Italian exodus after the Second World War, refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, asylum seekers arriving through the Balkans since 2015, and the more recent Ukrainian displacement (2022). Adopting an ethnographic approach, the main ob…
Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy
In border areas, time and space are constantly suspended from the usual rules along a liminal pathway transforming status and identity. In order to understand how different regimes of mobility and reception influence the experience of time and the subjective actions of both asylum seekers arriving via the so-called Balkan route and Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war, the paper puts forward an analysis of the multiple scales of migration and …
Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders
After the closure of the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, the western Balkan countries became buffer zones for thousands of unregistered migrants living ‘in waiting’ in precarious conditions. The overland route captures everyday configurations of multiple spatial, temporal and social interconnections, in their entanglement with the historicity of the cross-border areas. By analysing ethnographic accounts collected on the Italian-Austrian and Italian-Slo…
The floating karst flow of migrants as a rite of passage through the Eastern European border
Since the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015, the Balkan route has resumed its old function as an overland passage from Eastern to Central Europe and the area between Italy and Slovenia has constituted a migratory crossroads towards Northern Europe. In the last two years, there has been a constant increase of rejection policies in Italy and in the Western Balkans that has forced asylum seekers on undercover paths, with stops, blocks, rejections a…
Silos in Trieste, Italy
Sostare ai margini
L'articolo analizza comparativamente tre diversi contesti e organizzazioni dell'accoglienza per richiedenti asilo nell'area di confine italo-slovena a partire dal 2015, dopo la riapertura della cosiddetta 'rotta balcanica' come ingresso europeo via terra. Attraverso interviste e osservazione partecipante si evidenziano le differenze fra il CARA di Gradisca, confinato in una grande caserma militarizzata ai margini della vita sociale, un inseriment…
That Thin Red Line”
This article examines how the documentary Vedo Rosso may be seen as a form of Yugonostalgia on the part of the Italian minority living in Rovinj, Croatia. Based on a textual analysis and video elicitation, this project explores the multiple and somewhat ambivalent ways in which this specifi c community has reacted to a visual reconstruction of the 1980s under socialism. A combination of interviews conducted by the authors and interviews presented…
Exopolis reloaded
This paper examines a ‘landscape of power’ in the marginal northeastern corner of Italy, near the Italian-Slovenian border. The landscape is centred around the small town of Gradisca and its highly contested centres for asylum seekers and marked by the concomitant presence of a giant shopping mall, the largest Italian war memorial, and an aestheticised wine district. The result of participant observation, visual and textual analysis, and selected…
The floating karst flow of migrants as a rite of passage through the Eastern European border
Since the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015, the Balkan route has resumed its old function as an overland passage from Eastern to Central Europe and the area between Italy and Slovenia has constituted a migratory crossroads towards Northern Europe. In the last two years, there has been a constant increase of rejection policies in Italy and in the Western Balkans that has forced asylum seekers on undercover paths, with stops, blocks, rejections a…
Displaced memories in the Trieste border area
This paper aims to analyse the intertwined migrant mobility and the role of migrants’ memories by comparing different refugee flows arriving in the border area of Trieste (Italy) in different phases: the Italian exodus after the Second World War, refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, asylum seekers arriving through the Balkans since 2015, and the more recent Ukrainian displacement (2022). Adopting an ethnographic approach, the main ob…
Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy
In border areas, time and space are constantly suspended from the usual rules along a liminal pathway transforming status and identity. In order to understand how different regimes of mobility and reception influence the experience of time and the subjective actions of both asylum seekers arriving via the so-called Balkan route and Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war, the paper puts forward an analysis of the multiple scales of migration and …
Sostare ai margini
L'articolo analizza comparativamente tre diversi contesti e organizzazioni dell'accoglienza per richiedenti asilo nell'area di confine italo-slovena a partire dal 2015, dopo la riapertura della cosiddetta 'rotta balcanica' come ingresso europeo via terra. Attraverso interviste e osservazione partecipante si evidenziano le differenze fra il CARA di Gradisca, confinato in una grande caserma militarizzata ai margini della vita sociale, un inseriment…
Exopolis reloaded
This paper examines a ‘landscape of power’ in the marginal northeastern corner of Italy, near the Italian-Slovenian border. The landscape is centred around the small town of Gradisca and its highly contested centres for asylum seekers and marked by the concomitant presence of a giant shopping mall, the largest Italian war memorial, and an aestheticised wine district. The result of participant observation, visual and textual analysis, and selected…
Sofferenze cumulative, memorie depositate. Corpi, luoghi, diaspore
Quando le esperienze di afflizione si depositano nelle memorie individuali e collettive, l’etnografia è chiamata ad esplorare gli effetti della violazione, interrogandosi sui processi da osservare per raccontare l’accumulo delle sofferenze e sulle poetiche, incluse le opacità e i silenzi, con cui le persone si rapportano agli eventi che le hanno colpite, li esprimono o li gestiscono. Abbiamo impostato questo dossier tematico a partire dalla lette…
Exopolis reloaded
This paper examines a ‘landscape of power’ in the marginal northeastern corner of Italy, near the Italian-Slovenian border. The landscape is centred around the small town of Gradisca and its highly contested centres for asylum seekers and marked by the concomitant presence of a giant shopping mall, the largest Italian war memorial, and an aestheticised wine district. The result of participant observation, visual and textual analysis, and selected…
That Thin Red Line”
This article examines how the documentary Vedo Rosso may be seen as a form of Yugonostalgia on the part of the Italian minority living in Rovinj, Croatia. Based on a textual analysis and video elicitation, this project explores the multiple and somewhat ambivalent ways in which this specifi c community has reacted to a visual reconstruction of the 1980s under socialism. A combination of interviews conducted by the authors and interviews presented…
Sostare ai margini
L'articolo analizza comparativamente tre diversi contesti e organizzazioni dell'accoglienza per richiedenti asilo nell'area di confine italo-slovena a partire dal 2015, dopo la riapertura della cosiddetta 'rotta balcanica' come ingresso europeo via terra. Attraverso interviste e osservazione partecipante si evidenziano le differenze fra il CARA di Gradisca, confinato in una grande caserma militarizzata ai margini della vita sociale, un inseriment…
Silos in Trieste, Italy
The floating karst flow of migrants as a rite of passage through the Eastern European border
Since the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015, the Balkan route has resumed its old function as an overland passage from Eastern to Central Europe and the area between Italy and Slovenia has constituted a migratory crossroads towards Northern Europe. In the last two years, there has been a constant increase of rejection policies in Italy and in the Western Balkans that has forced asylum seekers on undercover paths, with stops, blocks, rejections a…
Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders
After the closure of the so-called ‘Balkan Route’, the western Balkan countries became buffer zones for thousands of unregistered migrants living ‘in waiting’ in precarious conditions. The overland route captures everyday configurations of multiple spatial, temporal and social interconnections, in their entanglement with the historicity of the cross-border areas. By analysing ethnographic accounts collected on the Italian-Austrian and Italian-Slo…
Sofferenze cumulative, memorie depositate. Corpi, luoghi, diaspore
Quando le esperienze di afflizione si depositano nelle memorie individuali e collettive, l’etnografia è chiamata ad esplorare gli effetti della violazione, interrogandosi sui processi da osservare per raccontare l’accumulo delle sofferenze e sulle poetiche, incluse le opacità e i silenzi, con cui le persone si rapportano agli eventi che le hanno colpite, li esprimono o li gestiscono. Abbiamo impostato questo dossier tematico a partire dalla lette…
Memorie dislocate e biografie spezzate di Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati
L’articolo analizza le violenze e sofferenze riportate dai minori stranieri non accompagnati che arrivano via terra nella zona transfrontaliera di Trieste; si tratta di forme di violenza strutturale ‘stratificate’ nello spazio e nel tempo, a partire dalle cause di migrazione, al debito contratto per poter partire, all’abbandono prematuro dalla famiglia per poter accedere al sistema di protezione internazionale europea che prevede solo poche categ…
Displaced memories in the Trieste border area
This paper aims to analyse the intertwined migrant mobility and the role of migrants’ memories by comparing different refugee flows arriving in the border area of Trieste (Italy) in different phases: the Italian exodus after the Second World War, refugees from the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, asylum seekers arriving through the Balkans since 2015, and the more recent Ukrainian displacement (2022). Adopting an ethnographic approach, the main ob…
Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy
In border areas, time and space are constantly suspended from the usual rules along a liminal pathway transforming status and identity. In order to understand how different regimes of mobility and reception influence the experience of time and the subjective actions of both asylum seekers arriving via the so-called Balkan route and Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war, the paper puts forward an analysis of the multiple scales of migration and …
Tracce e rimozioni
Partendo da una ricerca etnografica sulle migrazioni nell’area di frontiera italo-slovena di Trieste l’articolo utilizza un approccio comparativo per indagare cosa portano con sé i migranti e cosa rimane ‘abbandonato’ in zona di confine in due diversi transiti migratori: i profughi istriani del dopoguerra (1945-60) e richiedenti asilo in arrivo dalla rotta balcanica (2014-2024). Il focus è la ‘materialità politica’ di quest’area di frontiera con …
Border Areas beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
This article explores civic activism and informal hospitality along the Balkan route, focusing on the border city of Trieste and the Silos, an abandoned building that has served as an informal hub for displaced people for nearly a decade. Using an ethnographic approach, it examines how activists, humanitarian organizations, migrants, and citizens have created complex entanglements of solidarity beyond formal reception systems. Through the iceberg…
Geography (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)