N Montagna
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 56055 |
|---|---|
| NOME | N Montagna |
| PRENOMES | N |
| SOBRENOME | Montagna |
| ASSINATURA | MONTAGNA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8170-2770 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 196 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Work, life, and the everyday realities of migrant platform workers
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…
Hectic and unpredictable times
Unpacking policy effects on the smuggling industry
Evidence from different countries show that increasingly restrictive policies such as the criminalisation of migrant smuggling and the externalisation of border controls to countries of origin and transit of migratory flows, often re-sult in more sophisticated organisational structures, causing the replacement of small-scale decentralised organisations with larger hierarchical structures. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 20 professionals in…
Migration industries around the nexus of mobility, immobility and settlement. An overview
This introduction aims to give a brief overview of research on the migration industries, based on our definition of the migration industry as all those eco-nomic and financial activities developing between people on the move and the border, we categorise the literature that focuses on this topic around the nexus of mobility, immobility and settlement. We suggest reading and interpreting the research along three main dimensions, depending on where…
Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for bordering, that is, for measures that aim to delineate foreigners’ access to citizenship and membership and to further securitize migration policy. Across the globe, new border controls were introduced, stringent new international regulations applied, and hundreds of thousands of flights cancelled, all of which resulted in millions of travelers, including migrant workers and transnational commute…
The Two Emergencies of Migrant-Related Policies in Italy During the First Wave of Covid-19
Italy was the first European country touched by COVID-19 and one of the most severely affected, with a death toll that overtook China’s by mid-March 2020. As a result, lockdown measures aiming to mitigate — and eventually interrupt — the spread of COVID-19 proliferated during the first wave of the pandemic. The vast majority of these concerned the resident population, regardless of their status or country of origin, and mainly involved the closur…
For a new Sociology of Social love
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in literature and poetry, extensively depicted in the pictorial arts, sung about in music. Even philosophy, from its very beginnings, has devoted beautiful and intense pages to this theme. For reasons difficult to understand, the founding fathers of our discipline have been reluctant to enter the analyt…
Onward migration and intra‐European mobilities
This paper aims to give a theoretical introduction on onward migration and provide a review of empirical research on this topic in the EU. While there is a growing body of work on the topic, this still remains an under‐researched phenomenon. Existing studies have looked at different, often overlapping, dimensions of onward migration and how it may be an effect of mobility capital or influenced by variables as diverse as economic crises, gender, c…
Onward migration
In August 2016, Maslax Moxamed, a 19-year-old man from Somalia, arrived in Italy. He spent two months in Rome, first in via Cupa in the San Lorenzo district, where he met volunteers at the Baobab experience, an occupied social centre that had been turned into a reception centre for migrants in 2015 at the height of the “refugee crisis” (Dines et al., 2018). After eviction in September 2016, he followed volunteers to the various makeshift receptio…
Urban commons and freedom of movement The housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome
The arrival of migrants on Italian coasts following the so-called Arab Spring in 2011 has led to a multiplication of housing struggles. These struggles are widespread across the country and focus on the occupation of abandoned buildings and their transformation into collective housing spaces to provide an alternative to the formal reception system. This article will focus on the housing struggles in Rome, as the place with the highest number of o…
Beyond Crisis Talk
Commencing with some recent examples drawn from Anglophone media, this introductory article reflects on the multiple ways in which crisis and migration have been interconnected over the last decade in public discourse, political debates and academic research. It underlines how crisis has not simply become a key descriptor of specific events, but continues to operate as a powerful narrative device that structures knowledge of migration and shapes …
Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights
This article investigates an undocumented migrants' protest hat took place in Italy in 2010-2011 and examines the relational dynamics within the movement behind this mobilization. Although there is growing literature exploring different aspects of migrant activism and border struggles, the binomial migrant and politics has mostly been interpreted in terms of migrants as the objects of politics rather than the subjects. During the nine month prote…
Health Challenges in Refugee Reception
The arrival of more than one million migrants, many of them refugees, has proved a major test for the European Union. Although international relief and monitoring agencies have been critical of makeshift camps in Calais and Eidomeni where infectious disease and overcrowding present major health risks, few have examined the nature of the official reception system and its impact on health delivery. Drawing upon research findings from an Economic an…
Migration and the city
This brief introduction provides an overview of the theoretical grounding of the special feature (CITY, Analysis of Urban Trends, 2016, VOL. 20, NO. 1) and explains why this collection of papers constitutes a cohesive whole. It begins by situating our theme within broader debates on migration, diversity and the city. It proceeds by selectively highlighting key points, as well as omissions, in the literature on migrant entrepreneurship with respec…
The contestation of space in Milan's Chinatown
This paper looks at the transformation of Milan's Chinatown in the years following the April 2007 revolts and how these changes have been affected by conflicting interests. More specifically, I look at the political economy of urban space and the role of Chinatown in the dynamics of urban restructuring in Milan. Milan's Chinatown today is neither a Chinese residential area, nor a tourist district; rather, it is an ethnic economic and commercial e…
Thinking Lampedusa
This article interrogates the relationship between the Italian island of Lampedusa and trans-Mediterranean migration. It explores how the construction of Lampedusa as a border zone has been implicated in the rise and fall in numbers of migrants reaching the island's shores over the last two decades. It proceeds to consider the appropriateness of interpreting death and detention on Lampedusa in terms of 'bare life'. While acknowledging how Giorgio…
Contested Chinatown
This article discusses Chinese migrants’ incorporation in European cities and the relevance of the urban space. In particular, it focuses on the Chinatowns of London and Milan, beginning from two recent cases where their space has been contested. Alongside the different histories and contemporary patterns of Chinese migration and settlement and the varying policies and politics of immigration and integration in Britain and Italy, we bring the urb…
The Making of a Global Movement
This article addresses some of the issues concerning the trans-nationalisation of collective action by focusing on the White Overalls and the Disobedients and their participation in three transnational cycles of protest that took place at different geographical levels - local, macro-regional, and global - between the second half of the 1990s and the early 2000s. The first part briefly discusses some historical, transnational precursors to global …
The de‐commodification of urban space and the occupied social centres in Italy
This paper will describe the social uses of urban space by an urban movement actor, the Venetian ‘occupied social centre’ Rivolta. It considers the occupied social centres (OSCs) in Italy as heterogeneous experiences that rely on illegal occupations of disused buildings and their self‐management. They become social and de‐commodified spaces where activists set up political and cultural initiatives. Self‐managing and self‐organization are the prin…
Viewing the Italian city
Italian Cityscapes: Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy, Robert Lumley and John Foot (eds). University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2004, 244 pp. ISBN 0859897370, £15 (pbk), ISBN 0859897362
Thinking Lampedusa
This article interrogates the relationship between the Italian island of Lampedusa and trans-Mediterranean migration. It explores how the construction of Lampedusa as a border zone has been implicated in the rise and fall in numbers of migrants reaching the island's shores over the last two decades. It proceeds to consider the appropriateness of interpreting death and detention on Lampedusa in terms of 'bare life'. While acknowledging how Giorgio…
Beyond Crisis Talk
Commencing with some recent examples drawn from Anglophone media, this introductory article reflects on the multiple ways in which crisis and migration have been interconnected over the last decade in public discourse, political debates and academic research. It underlines how crisis has not simply become a key descriptor of specific events, but continues to operate as a powerful narrative device that structures knowledge of migration and shapes …
Onward migration and intra‐European mobilities
This paper aims to give a theoretical introduction on onward migration and provide a review of empirical research on this topic in the EU. While there is a growing body of work on the topic, this still remains an under‐researched phenomenon. Existing studies have looked at different, often overlapping, dimensions of onward migration and how it may be an effect of mobility capital or influenced by variables as diverse as economic crises, gender, c…
Contested Chinatown
This article discusses Chinese migrants’ incorporation in European cities and the relevance of the urban space. In particular, it focuses on the Chinatowns of London and Milan, beginning from two recent cases where their space has been contested. Alongside the different histories and contemporary patterns of Chinese migration and settlement and the varying policies and politics of immigration and integration in Britain and Italy, we bring the urb…
The de‐commodification of urban space and the occupied social centres in Italy
This paper will describe the social uses of urban space by an urban movement actor, the Venetian ‘occupied social centre’ Rivolta. It considers the occupied social centres (OSCs) in Italy as heterogeneous experiences that rely on illegal occupations of disused buildings and their self‐management. They become social and de‐commodified spaces where activists set up political and cultural initiatives. Self‐managing and self‐organization are the prin…
Onward migration
In August 2016, Maslax Moxamed, a 19-year-old man from Somalia, arrived in Italy. He spent two months in Rome, first in via Cupa in the San Lorenzo district, where he met volunteers at the Baobab experience, an occupied social centre that had been turned into a reception centre for migrants in 2015 at the height of the “refugee crisis” (Dines et al., 2018). After eviction in September 2016, he followed volunteers to the various makeshift receptio…
Migration and the city
This brief introduction provides an overview of the theoretical grounding of the special feature (CITY, Analysis of Urban Trends, 2016, VOL. 20, NO. 1) and explains why this collection of papers constitutes a cohesive whole. It begins by situating our theme within broader debates on migration, diversity and the city. It proceeds by selectively highlighting key points, as well as omissions, in the literature on migrant entrepreneurship with respec…
Urban commons and freedom of movement The housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome
The arrival of migrants on Italian coasts following the so-called Arab Spring in 2011 has led to a multiplication of housing struggles. These struggles are widespread across the country and focus on the occupation of abandoned buildings and their transformation into collective housing spaces to provide an alternative to the formal reception system. This article will focus on the housing struggles in Rome, as the place with the highest number of o…
Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights
This article investigates an undocumented migrants' protest hat took place in Italy in 2010-2011 and examines the relational dynamics within the movement behind this mobilization. Although there is growing literature exploring different aspects of migrant activism and border struggles, the binomial migrant and politics has mostly been interpreted in terms of migrants as the objects of politics rather than the subjects. During the nine month prote…
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for bordering, that is, for measures that aim to delineate foreigners’ access to citizenship and membership and to further securitize migration policy. Across the globe, new border controls were introduced, stringent new international regulations applied, and hundreds of thousands of flights cancelled, all of which resulted in millions of travelers, including migrant workers and transnational commute…
The contestation of space in Milan's Chinatown
This paper looks at the transformation of Milan's Chinatown in the years following the April 2007 revolts and how these changes have been affected by conflicting interests. More specifically, I look at the political economy of urban space and the role of Chinatown in the dynamics of urban restructuring in Milan. Milan's Chinatown today is neither a Chinese residential area, nor a tourist district; rather, it is an ethnic economic and commercial e…
Viewing the Italian city
Italian Cityscapes: Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy, Robert Lumley and John Foot (eds). University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2004, 244 pp. ISBN 0859897370, £15 (pbk), ISBN 0859897362
The de‐commodification of urban space and the occupied social centres in Italy
This paper will describe the social uses of urban space by an urban movement actor, the Venetian ‘occupied social centre’ Rivolta. It considers the occupied social centres (OSCs) in Italy as heterogeneous experiences that rely on illegal occupations of disused buildings and their self‐management. They become social and de‐commodified spaces where activists set up political and cultural initiatives. Self‐managing and self‐organization are the prin…
The Making of a Global Movement
This article addresses some of the issues concerning the trans-nationalisation of collective action by focusing on the White Overalls and the Disobedients and their participation in three transnational cycles of protest that took place at different geographical levels - local, macro-regional, and global - between the second half of the 1990s and the early 2000s. The first part briefly discusses some historical, transnational precursors to global …
Contested Chinatown
This article discusses Chinese migrants’ incorporation in European cities and the relevance of the urban space. In particular, it focuses on the Chinatowns of London and Milan, beginning from two recent cases where their space has been contested. Alongside the different histories and contemporary patterns of Chinese migration and settlement and the varying policies and politics of immigration and integration in Britain and Italy, we bring the urb…
Thinking Lampedusa
This article interrogates the relationship between the Italian island of Lampedusa and trans-Mediterranean migration. It explores how the construction of Lampedusa as a border zone has been implicated in the rise and fall in numbers of migrants reaching the island's shores over the last two decades. It proceeds to consider the appropriateness of interpreting death and detention on Lampedusa in terms of 'bare life'. While acknowledging how Giorgio…
Migration and the city
This brief introduction provides an overview of the theoretical grounding of the special feature (CITY, Analysis of Urban Trends, 2016, VOL. 20, NO. 1) and explains why this collection of papers constitutes a cohesive whole. It begins by situating our theme within broader debates on migration, diversity and the city. It proceeds by selectively highlighting key points, as well as omissions, in the literature on migrant entrepreneurship with respec…
The contestation of space in Milan's Chinatown
This paper looks at the transformation of Milan's Chinatown in the years following the April 2007 revolts and how these changes have been affected by conflicting interests. More specifically, I look at the political economy of urban space and the role of Chinatown in the dynamics of urban restructuring in Milan. Milan's Chinatown today is neither a Chinese residential area, nor a tourist district; rather, it is an ethnic economic and commercial e…
Health Challenges in Refugee Reception
The arrival of more than one million migrants, many of them refugees, has proved a major test for the European Union. Although international relief and monitoring agencies have been critical of makeshift camps in Calais and Eidomeni where infectious disease and overcrowding present major health risks, few have examined the nature of the official reception system and its impact on health delivery. Drawing upon research findings from an Economic an…
Beyond Crisis Talk
Commencing with some recent examples drawn from Anglophone media, this introductory article reflects on the multiple ways in which crisis and migration have been interconnected over the last decade in public discourse, political debates and academic research. It underlines how crisis has not simply become a key descriptor of specific events, but continues to operate as a powerful narrative device that structures knowledge of migration and shapes …
Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights
This article investigates an undocumented migrants' protest hat took place in Italy in 2010-2011 and examines the relational dynamics within the movement behind this mobilization. Although there is growing literature exploring different aspects of migrant activism and border struggles, the binomial migrant and politics has mostly been interpreted in terms of migrants as the objects of politics rather than the subjects. During the nine month prote…
Urban commons and freedom of movement The housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome
The arrival of migrants on Italian coasts following the so-called Arab Spring in 2011 has led to a multiplication of housing struggles. These struggles are widespread across the country and focus on the occupation of abandoned buildings and their transformation into collective housing spaces to provide an alternative to the formal reception system. This article will focus on the housing struggles in Rome, as the place with the highest number of o…
Onward migration and intra‐European mobilities
This paper aims to give a theoretical introduction on onward migration and provide a review of empirical research on this topic in the EU. While there is a growing body of work on the topic, this still remains an under‐researched phenomenon. Existing studies have looked at different, often overlapping, dimensions of onward migration and how it may be an effect of mobility capital or influenced by variables as diverse as economic crises, gender, c…
Onward migration
In August 2016, Maslax Moxamed, a 19-year-old man from Somalia, arrived in Italy. He spent two months in Rome, first in via Cupa in the San Lorenzo district, where he met volunteers at the Baobab experience, an occupied social centre that had been turned into a reception centre for migrants in 2015 at the height of the “refugee crisis” (Dines et al., 2018). After eviction in September 2016, he followed volunteers to the various makeshift receptio…
The Two Emergencies of Migrant-Related Policies in Italy During the First Wave of Covid-19
Italy was the first European country touched by COVID-19 and one of the most severely affected, with a death toll that overtook China’s by mid-March 2020. As a result, lockdown measures aiming to mitigate — and eventually interrupt — the spread of COVID-19 proliferated during the first wave of the pandemic. The vast majority of these concerned the resident population, regardless of their status or country of origin, and mainly involved the closur…
For a new Sociology of Social love
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in literature and poetry, extensively depicted in the pictorial arts, sung about in music. Even philosophy, from its very beginnings, has devoted beautiful and intense pages to this theme. For reasons difficult to understand, the founding fathers of our discipline have been reluctant to enter the analyt…
Unpacking policy effects on the smuggling industry
Evidence from different countries show that increasingly restrictive policies such as the criminalisation of migrant smuggling and the externalisation of border controls to countries of origin and transit of migratory flows, often re-sult in more sophisticated organisational structures, causing the replacement of small-scale decentralised organisations with larger hierarchical structures. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 20 professionals in…
Migration industries around the nexus of mobility, immobility and settlement. An overview
This introduction aims to give a brief overview of research on the migration industries, based on our definition of the migration industry as all those eco-nomic and financial activities developing between people on the move and the border, we categorise the literature that focuses on this topic around the nexus of mobility, immobility and settlement. We suggest reading and interpreting the research along three main dimensions, depending on where…
Human smugglers or criminalised migrants? Securitarian bordering and the criminalisation of ‘captains’ in the Mediterranean
Quarantine Ships as Spaces of Bordering
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for bordering, that is, for measures that aim to delineate foreigners’ access to citizenship and membership and to further securitize migration policy. Across the globe, new border controls were introduced, stringent new international regulations applied, and hundreds of thousands of flights cancelled, all of which resulted in millions of travelers, including migrant workers and transnational commute…
Hectic and unpredictable times
Work, life, and the everyday realities of migrant platform workers
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…
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