Within and Against Racial Segregation
Notes from Italy’s Encampment Archipelago
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Peano (0000-0002-7085-0911, University of Lisbon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lateral (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4053 • E-ISSN: 2469-4053 |
| Publisher | Cultural Studies Association (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25158/l10.2.10 |
| OpenAlex | W3203137878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The pandemic brought migrant farm workers into the limelight once again, as has happened repeatedly in the last three decades, in Italy as in many other parts of the world. Here I examine how intersecting and sometimes conflicting discourses and interventions, that have this biopolitically conceived population as their object, decide upon these subjects’ worthiness of attention, care, and sympathy through criminalizing, victimizing, and humanitarian registers. I reflect on some of the affective dynamics that sustain both the governmental operations through which these populations were (sought to be) managed and reactions against them from a situated perspective, as an accomplice to many of the forms of struggle in which migrant farm workers have engaged in the last decade in Italy. The stage for many such occurrences is what I have elsewhere defined as the “encampment archipelago” that many such workers, and particularly those who migrate from across West Africa, inhabit—labor or asylum-seeker camps, but also slums or isolated, derelict buildings, and various hybrid, in-between spaces among which people circulate
Limelight · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Racism · Situated · Sociology · Sympathy · Demography · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |