Cecilia Vergnano
Biographic Data
| ID | 887127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilia Vergnano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergnano |
| SIGNATURE | VERGNANO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1893-9246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The other border battlefield
While the most obvious targets of anti-immigration mobilizations in the global north are migrants themselves, this article examines a less visible conflict inherent to such mobilizations, not structured along the ethnic divide of “us” vs. “them.” Focusing on the Italian border town of Ventimiglia—an emblematic space of the EU’s “refugee crisis”—it analyzes the resentment, suspicion, and anger among residents of a white working-class neighborhood …
The Border across my Womb
This intimate ethnography relies on the perspective of Liza, a precarious researcher in academia who has an intimate relationship with Haruna, an asylum seeker who crossed the Mediterranean by boat. It shows how intimate partner violence and different forms of state violence, while being ontologically irreducible to each other, are deeply entangled and mutually constituted. Among the different forms of state violence, the analysis presented in th…
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management
Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even opposite reasons than the so-called ‘crisis’ of 2015, which is also known as the ‘long summer’ of migration. Indeed, where the latter originated from migrants’ massive appropriation of mobility, the disruption of 2020 resulted from state-imposed restric…
The management of Covid19 pandemic and its impact on migrant farmworkers in Italy
Purpose Two important measures concerning the management of the workforce were introduced in Italy during the COVID-19–related health emergency: the regularization of irregular migrants working in the domestic and agro-industrial sector, and the introduction of the health-pass requirement to access all workplaces. This article analyses the impacts of such measures on a specific category of workers: migrant farmworkers, notably racially subaltern,…
Supporting Migrants Mobility Across Securitised Borders
The article focuses on the role of border actors – namely border area residents and local administrators – mobilising on behalf of, and actively supporting, migrants on the move. By shifting the gaze from classical categories of actors involved in border control (state security actors, on the one side, and migrants on the move, on the other) and grounding the analysis on a specific cross-border point between the Italian Susa Valley and the French…
Desired freight and undesired migrants
Based on a comparison between two intra-EU border securitization processes in the aftermath of the so-called EU “refugee crisis” of 2015, this article aims to contribute to literature on migration control by stressing the role that market-security dynamics play in state borderwork. The comparison between the French/Italian and the Austrian/Italian borders suggests that the containment of undesired mobility may be better understood in light of eco…
Performing political dissent in a Roma camp
In this paper I draw on six years of ethnographic fieldwork among Roma camp dwellers in Turin, Italy. I examine two different forms of resistance to housing segregation carried out by the inhabitants of the Roma camp of via Germagnano. By focusing on three symbols of territorial stigmatization whose obtrusive presence characterises the daily life of camp dwellers (the dump, the kennel for stray dogs and the police), I firstly expose everyday form…
Why take such a risk? Beyond profit
As a response to the reintroduction of border controls at the French/Italian border, which aim to push back undesired migrants, increasing border‐crossing facilitation practices are being carried out by different categories of social actors, including local residents and migrants themselves. In a context of increasing criminalisation of border‐crossing facilitation practices, racialised, non‐white facilitators are usually stigmatised as smugglers…
Des affects aux politiques contestataires. Des rencontres perturbatrices avec les migrants le long d’une route transalpine
Depuis 2015, la réintroduction des contrôles aux frontières nord-italiennes a forcé les demandeurs d’asile à prendre des routes plus risquées pour atteindre leurs destinations dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Alors que plusieurs morts ont été enregistrées le long de toute la chaîne alpine, conséquence de l’exposition des demandeurs d’asile au risque, une partie des villageois locaux a vécu des rencontres inattendues avec des migrants en détresse tra…
From Affects to Contentious Politics.Disruptive Encounters with Migrants Along a Transalpine Route
Since 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders forced asylum seekers to take risky routes to reach their destinations in the European Union (EU). While several deaths have been registered since 2015 along the whole Alpine chain as a consequence of asylum seekers' exposure to risk, some local villagers experienced unexpected encounters with migrants in distress transiting along mountain pathways. Based on six months of empi…
Des affects aux politiques contestataires. Des rencontres perturbatrices avec les migrants le long d’une route transalpine
Depuis 2015, la réintroduction des contrôles aux frontières nord-italiennes a forcé les demandeurs d’asile à prendre des routes plus risquées pour atteindre leurs destinations dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Alors que plusieurs morts ont été enregistrées le long de toute la chaîne alpine, conséquence de l’exposition des demandeurs d’asile au risque, une partie des villageois locaux a vécu des rencontres inattendues avec des migrants en détresse tra…
Desired freight and undesired migrants
Based on a comparison between two intra-EU border securitization processes in the aftermath of the so-called EU “refugee crisis” of 2015, this article aims to contribute to literature on migration control by stressing the role that market-security dynamics play in state borderwork. The comparison between the French/Italian and the Austrian/Italian borders suggests that the containment of undesired mobility may be better understood in light of eco…
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management
Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even opposite reasons than the so-called ‘crisis’ of 2015, which is also known as the ‘long summer’ of migration. Indeed, where the latter originated from migrants’ massive appropriation of mobility, the disruption of 2020 resulted from state-imposed restric…
The management of Covid19 pandemic and its impact on migrant farmworkers in Italy
Purpose Two important measures concerning the management of the workforce were introduced in Italy during the COVID-19–related health emergency: the regularization of irregular migrants working in the domestic and agro-industrial sector, and the introduction of the health-pass requirement to access all workplaces. This article analyses the impacts of such measures on a specific category of workers: migrant farmworkers, notably racially subaltern,…
From Affects to Contentious Politics.Disruptive Encounters with Migrants Along a Transalpine Route
Since 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders forced asylum seekers to take risky routes to reach their destinations in the European Union (EU). While several deaths have been registered since 2015 along the whole Alpine chain as a consequence of asylum seekers' exposure to risk, some local villagers experienced unexpected encounters with migrants in distress transiting along mountain pathways. Based on six months of empi…
Performing political dissent in a Roma camp
In this paper I draw on six years of ethnographic fieldwork among Roma camp dwellers in Turin, Italy. I examine two different forms of resistance to housing segregation carried out by the inhabitants of the Roma camp of via Germagnano. By focusing on three symbols of territorial stigmatization whose obtrusive presence characterises the daily life of camp dwellers (the dump, the kennel for stray dogs and the police), I firstly expose everyday form…
Why take such a risk? Beyond profit
As a response to the reintroduction of border controls at the French/Italian border, which aim to push back undesired migrants, increasing border‐crossing facilitation practices are being carried out by different categories of social actors, including local residents and migrants themselves. In a context of increasing criminalisation of border‐crossing facilitation practices, racialised, non‐white facilitators are usually stigmatised as smugglers…
Des affects aux politiques contestataires. Des rencontres perturbatrices avec les migrants le long d’une route transalpine
Depuis 2015, la réintroduction des contrôles aux frontières nord-italiennes a forcé les demandeurs d’asile à prendre des routes plus risquées pour atteindre leurs destinations dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Alors que plusieurs morts ont été enregistrées le long de toute la chaîne alpine, conséquence de l’exposition des demandeurs d’asile au risque, une partie des villageois locaux a vécu des rencontres inattendues avec des migrants en détresse tra…
From Affects to Contentious Politics.Disruptive Encounters with Migrants Along a Transalpine Route
Since 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders forced asylum seekers to take risky routes to reach their destinations in the European Union (EU). While several deaths have been registered since 2015 along the whole Alpine chain as a consequence of asylum seekers' exposure to risk, some local villagers experienced unexpected encounters with migrants in distress transiting along mountain pathways. Based on six months of empi…
Supporting Migrants Mobility Across Securitised Borders
The article focuses on the role of border actors – namely border area residents and local administrators – mobilising on behalf of, and actively supporting, migrants on the move. By shifting the gaze from classical categories of actors involved in border control (state security actors, on the one side, and migrants on the move, on the other) and grounding the analysis on a specific cross-border point between the Italian Susa Valley and the French…
Desired freight and undesired migrants
Based on a comparison between two intra-EU border securitization processes in the aftermath of the so-called EU “refugee crisis” of 2015, this article aims to contribute to literature on migration control by stressing the role that market-security dynamics play in state borderwork. The comparison between the French/Italian and the Austrian/Italian borders suggests that the containment of undesired mobility may be better understood in light of eco…
The management of Covid19 pandemic and its impact on migrant farmworkers in Italy
Purpose Two important measures concerning the management of the workforce were introduced in Italy during the COVID-19–related health emergency: the regularization of irregular migrants working in the domestic and agro-industrial sector, and the introduction of the health-pass requirement to access all workplaces. This article analyses the impacts of such measures on a specific category of workers: migrant farmworkers, notably racially subaltern,…
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management
Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even opposite reasons than the so-called ‘crisis’ of 2015, which is also known as the ‘long summer’ of migration. Indeed, where the latter originated from migrants’ massive appropriation of mobility, the disruption of 2020 resulted from state-imposed restric…
The Border across my Womb
This intimate ethnography relies on the perspective of Liza, a precarious researcher in academia who has an intimate relationship with Haruna, an asylum seeker who crossed the Mediterranean by boat. It shows how intimate partner violence and different forms of state violence, while being ontologically irreducible to each other, are deeply entangled and mutually constituted. Among the different forms of state violence, the analysis presented in th…
The other border battlefield
While the most obvious targets of anti-immigration mobilizations in the global north are migrants themselves, this article examines a less visible conflict inherent to such mobilizations, not structured along the ethnic divide of “us” vs. “them.” Focusing on the Italian border town of Ventimiglia—an emblematic space of the EU’s “refugee crisis”—it analyzes the resentment, suspicion, and anger among residents of a white working-class neighborhood …
Political science (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Migration and Exile Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Irregular migration (3 works)