Event overview
2-4pm Talk by Glenda Garelli (University of Illinois-Chicago) 'Arab Uprisings Making Space: Territoriality and the Moral Geographies of Asylum Seekers in Italy'; 4-5pm Film showing, "I nostri anni migliori"
Abstract:
This paper engages the instabilities of the category of asylum vis-à-vis global mobility, looking at Arab Uprisings’ migrations to Italy and focusing on state technologies to manage “North Africa Emergency” migrations. Reflecting on the partition that enacts the juridical figures of the asylum seeker and of the irregular migrant, the paper traces the tensions that the Arab Uprisings’ migrants bring to the Northern Rim of the Mediterranean as these tensions reverberate on the administrative and juridical process of claiming asylum. Moreover, this work introduces a spatial focus in the analysis of asylum, mapping the spatial outcomes of the “Italian Solution” to Arab Uprisings’ migrations along the two constitutive axes of the category of asylum: first, the territorial logic instantiating a space of “refuge” and, second, the moral regime underpinning the dispersal of “protection.” The analysis highlights the cracks that migrants’ embodied experiences of mobility and their situated claims of presence bring into the statecraft of migration and refugee management. Constructed as a knowledge based governance system, asylum processing performs the sorting and emplacing of migrants through an under-scrutinized dynamic between knowledge production and knowledge voids. This contribution maps this dynamic and intercepts the openings that emerge from its instable power: openings which infiltrate the excess of human mobility within the boundaries of the category of asylum, and force migrating spaces and migrants’ claims to presence into the normative and administrative practices of asylum.
- From 4 to 5 pm (RHB 250)There will be a showing of the film by Stefano Collizzolli and Matteo Calore, "I nostri anni migliori" (English subtitles) on Tunisian migrants who left Tunisia after the fall of Ben Ali, carrying on their practices of freedom on the other rim of the Mediterranean.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 2012 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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