Giuliana Sanò
Biographic Data
| ID | 90369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuliana Sanò |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanò |
| SIGNATURE | SANÒ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Messina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8971-1540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Work, life, and the everyday realities of migrant platform workers: An introduction
Our introduction situates this Special Issue (SI) within current debates on work, life, and migrant labour on digital platforms, emphasizing how they reorganize time, mobility, and everyday life for those who work with them. Using ‘Souleymane’s story’ from the 2024 movie as paradigmatic, this introduction illustrates how migrants experience the platform economy at the intersection of border violence, legal precarity, and algorithmic management. I…
How institutions think: Reproductive health services and migrant women in Italy
Health and social services in Italy frequently essentialize migrant women's reproductive choices as products of ‘culture’ rather than responses to structural barriers, precarious conditions or institutional failures of listening. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Verona in 2018 – including focus groups and interviews with both practitioners and migrant women – this article analyses how, to paraphrase Mary Douglas, reproductive health…
The "work of emotion" in navigating im-mobility experienced by migrants and asylum seekers
Still little explored, the condition of existential im-mobility experienced by refugees and asylum seekers within and outside the so-called reception system is the main argument of this article. Looking at the “work of emotions” (Hochschild, 1979, Hollan, 1992), the article investigates how the im-mobility experienced by migrants can be ‘navigated’ through different emotions. The theoretical analysis of the im-mobility of refugees and migrants is…
Presentazione
Navigating precarity. Theoretical insights into the intersection of digital platform work and migrant labour in the gig economy
The role of labour platforms in mediating migrant mobility and engaging low-wage labour markets, extensively occupied by migrants, is increasingly important in the political economy of migration. This article offers theoretical insights into the relationship between labour, migration, and the platform economy, proposing time, space and energy as an integrated heuristic for analysing this relationship. It challenges the view of the platform econom…
Introduzione
Le stratificazioni migratorie alla luce del nesso tra politiche migratorie e politiche del lavoro in Italia
Prendendo le mosse da un racconto autobiografico, il contributo prosegue con la restituzione degli incontri e delle esperienze etnografiche che hanno segnato il corso di una ricerca, durata oltre dieci anni, nel campo delle migrazioni verso l’Italia. Nel tentativo di imprimere alla narrazione un movimento circolare pari a quello disegnato dalle traiettorie geografiche e biografiche intraprese dalle persone migranti, l’articolo si serve di una spe…
Migratory stratifications: A New Analytical Tool for Investigating Social Change
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women's choices, in Verona, Italy
This article discusses the results of ethnographic research conducted in the municipality of Verona (Veneto Region, Northeast Italy), during 2018, aimed at analysing the reproductive health needs of migrant women, and their access to such services in the territory. The research highlighted that, in addition to many critical structural-organizational issues, there was an emotional obstacle to the use of services - that is, the feeling of fear. In …
Producing labour stratification: How Migration Policies Affect the Working, Living and Housing Conditions of Migrant Farmworkers
Based on a long-term investigation of migrant farmworkers within the Sicilian agricultural districts, this paper aims to use the lens of migratory stratification to scrutinize the various changes that have occurred in the agricultural sector over the past decade. Drawing on ethnographic data from an empirical study conducted on the working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers, this paper will shed light on the economic and social stratifi…
Claiming Time Within Migrations
Claiming Time: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Dealing with the Production of Different Temporal Regimes by Asylum and Reception Policies
After institutional reception: Time, im-mobility and social networks in Southern Italy
By examining the changes that have occurred in migration policies over the last decade, which have radically transformed the mobility trajectories of migrants, the article analyses the im-mobility produced by these policies through existential, spatial and temporal perspectives. Going deep into two ethnographic settings in Calabria (Southern Italy), one rural and one urban, the article investigates how people involved in the process of going thro…
The eternal return of normality: Invisibility and essentiality of migrant farmworkers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light the central link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism in Italy. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the national lockdown, this article focuses on the motivations behind the amnesty approved in 2021 by the government as part of the 'Decreto Rilancio', which was aimed at regularising the status of undocumented migrant workers employed in those sec…
The multiple facets of (im)mobility. A multisited ethnography on territorialisation experiences and mobility trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees outside the Italian reception system
The article analyses the forms of mobility and (im)mobility of migrants and asylum seekers who are outside the institutional reception system. Through the narration of two ethnographic cases placed in northern and southern Italy, the authors retrace the biographical and geographic trajectories of migrants, and compare them with territorial policies. By analysing two very different contexts from the economic and social point of view, we highlight …
Stuck and Exploited Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles
This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of “camps”. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, e…
Interstitial urban spaces: Housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy
This contribution presents the results of an ethnographic research, conducted in the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), which investigated the living conditions of refugees and asylum seekers outside the reception system and explored the heterogeneous and fragmented world of pathways they undertake in search of work and accommodation. From the point of view of housing, the investigation has shown how individuals put in place different kind of…
The prism of new mobilities. The mobility trajectories of refugees and asylum seekers outside the Italian reception system
For over twenty years, Italy has faced the phenomenon of so-called “forced” international migrations. By virtue of its geographic position in the Mediterranean, this country constitutes, in many cases, the first landing and the transit country for asylum seekers in their flight from wars, political crises, environmental catastrophes and depletion of resources. This also implied a growing number of “rejections” that is, asylum seekers to whom no f…
Fare casa nella città interstiziale, tra dinamiche attrattive e forze espulsive. Condizioni abitative e strategie della vita quotidiana di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati senza dimora a Trento
Il presente contributo, frutto di una ricerca etnografica condotta nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento, indaga le condizioni di vita di rifugiati e richiedenti asilo al di fuori del sistema di accoglienza. In particolare, approfondisce gli effetti prodotti dagli insediamenti informali in cui essi dimorano e dalle condizioni materiali che li caratterizzano sulla vita quotidiana di questi immigrati, nonché le forme di riappropriazione di tali spazi …
The “Double Emergency” and the Securitization of the Humanitarian Approach in the Italian Reception System within the Pandemic Crisis
The Coronavirus outbreak has revealed the critical situation that can emerge when isolation and quarantine measures are applied to migrants living in reception and detention centers and overcrowded contexts. The paper focuses on events that affected two Extraordinary Reception Centres (CASs) and a Hotspot, located in Northern and Southern Italy. Although the humanitarian paradigm still represents the most functional form of government, this histo…
Quando la paura guida le scelte. Donne immigrate e salute riproduttiva
relazione tra donne immigrate e servizi dedicati alla salute riproduttiva, interpretando tale sentimento non già come l'espressione di un vissuto e di un sentito meramente individuale, piuttosto come "un pensiero incorporato", esito di una costruzione sociale, riflesso di dinamiche e relazioni di potere, capaci di trasformare i sentimenti in pratiche
Spazio prodotto e spazio produttore. La relazione tra mil sistema di accoglienza e due territori a Messina
This contribution deals with the relationship between the institutional reception system and the territories in which reception centres are located. In order to do that, the contribution describes the cases of two mobilisations put in place by the residents of a popular neigh-bourhood where an Hotspot is located, and by a group of vulnerable asylum seekers forced to live in an isolated area of Messina, namely the city where the ethnographic resea…
The prism of new mobilities. The mobility trajectories of refugees and asylum seekers outside the Italian reception system
For over twenty years, Italy has faced the phenomenon of so-called “forced” international migrations. By virtue of its geographic position in the Mediterranean, this country constitutes, in many cases, the first landing and the transit country for asylum seekers in their flight from wars, political crises, environmental catastrophes and depletion of resources. This also implied a growing number of “rejections” that is, asylum seekers to whom no f…
Claiming Time: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Dealing with the Production of Different Temporal Regimes by Asylum and Reception Policies
After institutional reception: Time, im-mobility and social networks in Southern Italy
By examining the changes that have occurred in migration policies over the last decade, which have radically transformed the mobility trajectories of migrants, the article analyses the im-mobility produced by these policies through existential, spatial and temporal perspectives. Going deep into two ethnographic settings in Calabria (Southern Italy), one rural and one urban, the article investigates how people involved in the process of going thro…
Migratory stratifications: A New Analytical Tool for Investigating Social Change
Claiming Time Within Migrations
Fare casa nella città interstiziale, tra dinamiche attrattive e forze espulsive. Condizioni abitative e strategie della vita quotidiana di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati senza dimora a Trento
Il presente contributo, frutto di una ricerca etnografica condotta nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento, indaga le condizioni di vita di rifugiati e richiedenti asilo al di fuori del sistema di accoglienza. In particolare, approfondisce gli effetti prodotti dagli insediamenti informali in cui essi dimorano e dalle condizioni materiali che li caratterizzano sulla vita quotidiana di questi immigrati, nonché le forme di riappropriazione di tali spazi …
The “Double Emergency” and the Securitization of the Humanitarian Approach in the Italian Reception System within the Pandemic Crisis
The Coronavirus outbreak has revealed the critical situation that can emerge when isolation and quarantine measures are applied to migrants living in reception and detention centers and overcrowded contexts. The paper focuses on events that affected two Extraordinary Reception Centres (CASs) and a Hotspot, located in Northern and Southern Italy. Although the humanitarian paradigm still represents the most functional form of government, this histo…
Spazio prodotto e spazio produttore. La relazione tra mil sistema di accoglienza e due territori a Messina
This contribution deals with the relationship between the institutional reception system and the territories in which reception centres are located. In order to do that, the contribution describes the cases of two mobilisations put in place by the residents of a popular neigh-bourhood where an Hotspot is located, and by a group of vulnerable asylum seekers forced to live in an isolated area of Messina, namely the city where the ethnographic resea…
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women's choices, in Verona, Italy
This article discusses the results of ethnographic research conducted in the municipality of Verona (Veneto Region, Northeast Italy), during 2018, aimed at analysing the reproductive health needs of migrant women, and their access to such services in the territory. The research highlighted that, in addition to many critical structural-organizational issues, there was an emotional obstacle to the use of services - that is, the feeling of fear. In …
Producing labour stratification: How Migration Policies Affect the Working, Living and Housing Conditions of Migrant Farmworkers
Based on a long-term investigation of migrant farmworkers within the Sicilian agricultural districts, this paper aims to use the lens of migratory stratification to scrutinize the various changes that have occurred in the agricultural sector over the past decade. Drawing on ethnographic data from an empirical study conducted on the working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers, this paper will shed light on the economic and social stratifi…
The eternal return of normality: Invisibility and essentiality of migrant farmworkers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light the central link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism in Italy. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the national lockdown, this article focuses on the motivations behind the amnesty approved in 2021 by the government as part of the 'Decreto Rilancio', which was aimed at regularising the status of undocumented migrant workers employed in those sec…
Spazio prodotto e spazio produttore. La relazione tra mil sistema di accoglienza e due territori a Messina
This contribution deals with the relationship between the institutional reception system and the territories in which reception centres are located. In order to do that, the contribution describes the cases of two mobilisations put in place by the residents of a popular neigh-bourhood where an Hotspot is located, and by a group of vulnerable asylum seekers forced to live in an isolated area of Messina, namely the city where the ethnographic resea…
Quando la paura guida le scelte. Donne immigrate e salute riproduttiva
relazione tra donne immigrate e servizi dedicati alla salute riproduttiva, interpretando tale sentimento non già come l'espressione di un vissuto e di un sentito meramente individuale, piuttosto come "un pensiero incorporato", esito di una costruzione sociale, riflesso di dinamiche e relazioni di potere, capaci di trasformare i sentimenti in pratiche
The multiple facets of (im)mobility. A multisited ethnography on territorialisation experiences and mobility trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees outside the Italian reception system
The article analyses the forms of mobility and (im)mobility of migrants and asylum seekers who are outside the institutional reception system. Through the narration of two ethnographic cases placed in northern and southern Italy, the authors retrace the biographical and geographic trajectories of migrants, and compare them with territorial policies. By analysing two very different contexts from the economic and social point of view, we highlight …
Stuck and Exploited Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles
This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of “camps”. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, e…
Interstitial urban spaces: Housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy
This contribution presents the results of an ethnographic research, conducted in the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), which investigated the living conditions of refugees and asylum seekers outside the reception system and explored the heterogeneous and fragmented world of pathways they undertake in search of work and accommodation. From the point of view of housing, the investigation has shown how individuals put in place different kind of…
The prism of new mobilities. The mobility trajectories of refugees and asylum seekers outside the Italian reception system
For over twenty years, Italy has faced the phenomenon of so-called “forced” international migrations. By virtue of its geographic position in the Mediterranean, this country constitutes, in many cases, the first landing and the transit country for asylum seekers in their flight from wars, political crises, environmental catastrophes and depletion of resources. This also implied a growing number of “rejections” that is, asylum seekers to whom no f…
Fare casa nella città interstiziale, tra dinamiche attrattive e forze espulsive. Condizioni abitative e strategie della vita quotidiana di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati senza dimora a Trento
Il presente contributo, frutto di una ricerca etnografica condotta nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento, indaga le condizioni di vita di rifugiati e richiedenti asilo al di fuori del sistema di accoglienza. In particolare, approfondisce gli effetti prodotti dagli insediamenti informali in cui essi dimorano e dalle condizioni materiali che li caratterizzano sulla vita quotidiana di questi immigrati, nonché le forme di riappropriazione di tali spazi …
The “Double Emergency” and the Securitization of the Humanitarian Approach in the Italian Reception System within the Pandemic Crisis
The Coronavirus outbreak has revealed the critical situation that can emerge when isolation and quarantine measures are applied to migrants living in reception and detention centers and overcrowded contexts. The paper focuses on events that affected two Extraordinary Reception Centres (CASs) and a Hotspot, located in Northern and Southern Italy. Although the humanitarian paradigm still represents the most functional form of government, this histo…
After institutional reception: Time, im-mobility and social networks in Southern Italy
By examining the changes that have occurred in migration policies over the last decade, which have radically transformed the mobility trajectories of migrants, the article analyses the im-mobility produced by these policies through existential, spatial and temporal perspectives. Going deep into two ethnographic settings in Calabria (Southern Italy), one rural and one urban, the article investigates how people involved in the process of going thro…
The eternal return of normality: Invisibility and essentiality of migrant farmworkers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to light the central link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism in Italy. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the national lockdown, this article focuses on the motivations behind the amnesty approved in 2021 by the government as part of the 'Decreto Rilancio', which was aimed at regularising the status of undocumented migrant workers employed in those sec…
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women's choices, in Verona, Italy
This article discusses the results of ethnographic research conducted in the municipality of Verona (Veneto Region, Northeast Italy), during 2018, aimed at analysing the reproductive health needs of migrant women, and their access to such services in the territory. The research highlighted that, in addition to many critical structural-organizational issues, there was an emotional obstacle to the use of services - that is, the feeling of fear. In …
Producing labour stratification: How Migration Policies Affect the Working, Living and Housing Conditions of Migrant Farmworkers
Based on a long-term investigation of migrant farmworkers within the Sicilian agricultural districts, this paper aims to use the lens of migratory stratification to scrutinize the various changes that have occurred in the agricultural sector over the past decade. Drawing on ethnographic data from an empirical study conducted on the working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers, this paper will shed light on the economic and social stratifi…
Claiming Time Within Migrations
Claiming Time: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Dealing with the Production of Different Temporal Regimes by Asylum and Reception Policies
The "work of emotion" in navigating im-mobility experienced by migrants and asylum seekers
Still little explored, the condition of existential im-mobility experienced by refugees and asylum seekers within and outside the so-called reception system is the main argument of this article. Looking at the “work of emotions” (Hochschild, 1979, Hollan, 1992), the article investigates how the im-mobility experienced by migrants can be ‘navigated’ through different emotions. The theoretical analysis of the im-mobility of refugees and migrants is…
Presentazione
Navigating precarity. Theoretical insights into the intersection of digital platform work and migrant labour in the gig economy
The role of labour platforms in mediating migrant mobility and engaging low-wage labour markets, extensively occupied by migrants, is increasingly important in the political economy of migration. This article offers theoretical insights into the relationship between labour, migration, and the platform economy, proposing time, space and energy as an integrated heuristic for analysing this relationship. It challenges the view of the platform econom…
Introduzione
Le stratificazioni migratorie alla luce del nesso tra politiche migratorie e politiche del lavoro in Italia
Prendendo le mosse da un racconto autobiografico, il contributo prosegue con la restituzione degli incontri e delle esperienze etnografiche che hanno segnato il corso di una ricerca, durata oltre dieci anni, nel campo delle migrazioni verso l’Italia. Nel tentativo di imprimere alla narrazione un movimento circolare pari a quello disegnato dalle traiettorie geografiche e biografiche intraprese dalle persone migranti, l’articolo si serve di una spe…
Migratory stratifications: A New Analytical Tool for Investigating Social Change
Work, life, and the everyday realities of migrant platform workers: An introduction
Our introduction situates this Special Issue (SI) within current debates on work, life, and migrant labour on digital platforms, emphasizing how they reorganize time, mobility, and everyday life for those who work with them. Using ‘Souleymane’s story’ from the 2024 movie as paradigmatic, this introduction illustrates how migrants experience the platform economy at the intersection of border violence, legal precarity, and algorithmic management. I…
How institutions think: Reproductive health services and migrant women in Italy
Health and social services in Italy frequently essentialize migrant women's reproductive choices as products of ‘culture’ rather than responses to structural barriers, precarious conditions or institutional failures of listening. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Verona in 2018 – including focus groups and interviews with both practitioners and migrant women – this article analyses how, to paraphrase Mary Douglas, reproductive health…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works)