Jacopo Anderlini
Elèuthera
2025
Book
Through an archaeological investigation of the concept of hospitality, from its Greco-Roman roots to contemporary European policies, this book reveals the hidden grammar that governs inclusion and exclusion in our societies. Hospitality is never neutral: it is always a political act that establishes …
Border Studies
Migration
Hospitality
Hotspot
Asylum
Jacopo Anderlini, Vincenza Pellegrino
Futures
2025
Journal
This article explores the relationship between social imaginaries and mobility justice, examining how borders can be 'de-presentified' through alternative conceptualizations of movement and belonging. The analysis draws on ethnographic research to understand how different actors envision and …
Border Studies
Migration
Social Imaginaries
Mobility Justice
Futures
Jacopo Anderlini, Federico Torre
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
2025
Journal
This article examines the Alpine border between France and Italy as a site of selective border control, analyzing how mountain refuges function as both humanitarian spaces and border infrastructure. The research explores how nature itself becomes part of the border apparatus, creating new forms of …
Border Studies
Migration
Alps
Nature
Infrastructure
Jacopo Anderlini
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
2024
Journal
This article examines the intersection of humanitarian discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border, focusing on anti-trafficking narratives and their implementation. The analysis reveals how humanitarian concerns become entangled with border control mechanisms, creating new …
Border Studies
Migration
Anti-trafficking
Humanitarian
Italy
Jacopo Anderlini, Luca Queirolo Palmas
Sociologia urbana e rurale
2024
Journal
The aim of this article is to stress the possibility of a specific and innovative gaze on borders and borderlands: one that puts solidarity as an encounter and a fabric among people on the move enacting a relentless dynamism along unauthorized routes, constituting one of the key elements for …
Migration
Solidarity
Unauthorized Routes
Encounters
Borders
Enrico Fravega, Jacopo Anderlini
Sociologia urbana e rurale
2023
Journal
Nel quadro di un processo di globalizzazione delle filiere agricole, gli insediamenti informali di migranti rappresentano sia il simbolo di una condizione di povertà abitativa anche estrema, sia un luogo fondamentale per la riproduzione sociale della forza lavoro. Allo stesso tempo, questa forma …
Racialization
Migration
Agricultural Labor
Southern Italy
Informal Settlements
Jacopo Anderlini, Enrico Fravega
Elèuthera, Milano
2023
Book
For the first time, a vessel of social scientists has traveled the migration routes of the central Mediterranean, stopping at the main hubs of European border control: Pantelleria, Lampedusa, Linosa, Malta. An unprecedented logbook that offers us a radically new perspective on the necropolitical …
Mediterranean
Migration
Borders
Ethnography
Italy
Jacopo Anderlini, Luca Queirolo Palmas
Mondi Migranti
2023
Journal
The presence of migrant workers in the agricultural system of Southern Italy is currently an essential element of this economic area. This increasing presence is deeply linked with the transformations occurred to agricultural markets and hence on the mode of production and distribution, not only in …
Migration
Agricultural Labor
Sicily
Camps
Exploitation
Jacopo Anderlini
Cartografie sociali
2023
Journal
The text takes into account mechanisms of harnessing and practices of escape within the spaces of mobility generated by the circulations of seasonal migrant labour in agriculture, considering the case of Sicily. In particular, the harvesting of new potatoes in Cassibile will be analysed, building on …
Migration
Agricultural Labor
Sicily
Mobility
Resistance
Jacopo Anderlini, Carlo Milani
Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities (eds. Armano, E., Briziarelli M., Risi E.)
2022
Chapter
Recently, following events at Cambridge Analytica that put commercial social media under scrutiny, a public debate emerged around corporate digital platforms focused not only on critically analysing their social, economic, political impact but on the creation of alternative spaces of digital …
Fediverse
Digital Platforms
Sociotechnical Organisation
Digital Ethnography
Jacopo Anderlini, Davide Filippi, Luca Giliberti
DeriveApprodi, Roma
2022
Book
In the Europe of the 'reception crisis', this volume analyzes the multiple dimensions that qualify Italy as a borderland, defining the conflictual relationship between the agency of migrant subjectivities in transit between the borders of the European Union, the solidarity networks that support them …
Italy
Borders
Migration
Autonomy
Border Regime
Luca Giliberti, Jacopo Anderlini
Lo Squaderno
2022
Journal
For the past thirty years, Lampedusa has been at the centre of undocumented mobility towards Europe: a process in which the island has been transformed into a border, and the border into a spectacle. This contribution stems from an ethnographic research that began in Lampedusa in December 2020, at …
Hotspot
Lampedusa
Migration
Detention
Pandemic
Jacopo Anderlini
International Migration
2022
Journal
The region of Sicily, in the south of Italy, has been at the centre of diverse contemporary migration movements since the 90s. This has made it an ideal setting for experimentation of new border control devices and procedures at the EU level. This article analyses the constellation of migrant …
Circulations
Migration
Sicily
Border Studies
Ethnography
Jacopo Anderlini, Silvia Di Meo
Rivista Il Mulino
2021
Journal
Le politiche confinarie europee ai tempi della pandemia stanno mettendo in luce tutti i limiti di un sistema inadeguato e foriero di problemi e, soprattutto, disumanità.
Hotspot approach
Quarantine ships
Pandemic
European borders
Jacopo Anderlini
Confini, mobilità e migrazioni. Una cartografia dello spazio europeo (ed. Navone L.)
2020
Chapter
The article analyses the specific spatiality and temporality regulating the hotspot, which sorts and partitions people who are caught within it, performing specific functions in the management of European borders. This piece is based on the case study of the Pozzallo hotspot, which I studied through …
Hotspot approach
Spatiality
Temporality
Border Device
Jacopo Anderlini
Migration, Borders and Citizenship. Between Policy and Public Spheres (eds. Ambrosini M., Cinalli M., Jacobson D.)
2019
Chapter
The present contribution considers the 'hotspot approach', a distinct technology of management and control of mobility within the wider European border regime. This apparatus shows the linkage between the discourses and rationalities on security and humanitarianism, depicting what has been called …
Hotspot
Medical Expertise
Humanitarian Border
Pozzallo
Jacopo Anderlini
Mondi Migranti 2
2018
Journal
Starting from its definition in the 2015 European Agenda on Migration, the 'hotspot approach' has been adopted in different border zones within the European boundaries. This specific border dispositive is framed within the discourses on security and humanitarianism, depicting what William Walters …
Medical Expertise
Hotspot
Biopolitics
Care and Control
Jacopo Anderlini
Zapruder, Storie in movimento
2018
Journal
The article reflects on the relationship between digital technologies, communication and artistic experimentation in the community emerging in the second half of the 1990s linked to Italian hackerspaces and countercultural movements.
hackmeeting
digital technologies
countercultural movements
hackerspaces