Borders within. An Ethnographic Take on the Reception Policies of Asylum Seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefano Degli Uberti (0000-0001-7415-588X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archivio antropologico mediterraneo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2038-3215 • E-ISSN: 2038-3215 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/aam.1887 |
| OpenAlex | W2998408651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
The “processual turn” in the study of borders has opened up to the analysis of how borders and border regimes, conceived of as social practices, are created/recreated in many ways, for many actors, at any place and time; however, this perspective still coexists with traditional approaches to borders, characterized by a fixation with the notion of border only as a tangible entity, the physical outcome of political, social and/or economic processes. These studies develop through sophisticated and erudite conceptual analysis, not always balanced by equal empirical anchorage. Conversely, based on an ethnographic account of asylum seekers’ reception policies in Alto Adige/Südtirol, the article empirically frames the concept of “border” by retracing the experiences of the so-called “out-of-quota” asylum seekers (profughi fuori quota/Asylbewerber fuori quota) in light of their categorization prompted by local policy and media discourses. The author unveils the performative dimension of labelling practices by arguing that these not only fuel misrepresentation but translate into bordering practices that exacerbate juridical and social vulnerability and hinder access to reception facilities and welfare services
Categorization · Epistemology · Ethnography · Legitimation · Liminality · Misrepresentation · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Labelling Refugees
Boundaries as social processes
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Studying Up Revisited
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The Governance of Things
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |