Debordering Europe: Migration and Control Across the Ventimiglia Region

ISBN-13: 9783030565206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

LIVIO AMIGONI

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I: Historical reading of Ventimiglia as a border town

Chapter 2: The path of hope.  Illegal border crossing in the last century (1861-2019),  Gabriele Proglio

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Stories of border crossings

2.3. Stories, subjectivities, and the archive

2.4. References

Chapter 3: The Franco-Italian border at Menton-Ventimiglia: a perennial place of conflict, brotherhood, and media coverage, Sandro Rinauro

3.1. Introduction 

3.2. Between national and Niçois identities, events at the border up to 1860

3.3. The delicate integration of the county of Nice with France and the protracted identity dispute

3.4. Intensifying cross-border communications and military litigation at the border

3.5. The migratory flow amid hostility and hospitality 

3.6. Border mediatisation: from the strengthening of national identity to the exorcising of conflict

3.7. References

Chapter 4: The Maritime Alps migration chains: from traditional transalpine mobility to international migration,  Marina Marengo

4.1. Introduction

4.2. “MaConGranPenaLeReCaGiù”: matters of “Alpine” semantics

4.3. The Maritime Alps: archetype of frontier lands

4.4. Traditional Economic Activities: a model focused on mobility and circular migration

4.5. From Circular Mobility to Internal and International Migration

4.6. Conclusions: questions of thresholds, doors, and ubiquitous liminality

4.7. References

Part II: Borderland infrastructures

Chapter 5: The infrastructure environment of the Ventimiglia borderland and underground border crossings, Ivan Bonnin 

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Non-human agency

5.3. The infrastructure environment channels migratory flow

5.4. Infrastructural opportunities for underground border crossings

5.5. Conclusion

5.6. References 

Chapter 6: The moral economy of a transit camp. Life and control on the Italian-French border, Marta Menghi 

6.1. Introduction 

6.2 A laboratory

6.3. Circular government

6.4. Dealing with life

6.5. Conclusion

6.6. References

Chapter 7: The irregular border. Theory and praxis the border of Ventimiglia in the Schengen age, Giacomo Donadio 

7.1. Introduction 

7.2. The reintroduction of border control in the Schengen Borders Code (SBC) 4 and French legislation on identity checks

7.3. Bilateral agreements on police cooperation and the readmission of “irregulars”

7.4. The refus d’entrée (refusal of entry)

7.5. Conclusions

7.6. References 

Part III: Social actors on the ground

Chapter 8: Smugglers and smuggled migrants: amid Sudanese passeurs in the border regime of Ventimiglia, Livio Amigoni, Chiara Molinero, Cecilia Vergnano 

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Methodology

8.3. Theories on smuggling

8.4. Controls and border-crossing strategies in Ventimiglia

8.5. The heterogeneous cosmos of passeur

8.6. Price and reputation in the smuggling business

8.7. Shabab on the river. Among Sudanese smugglers and the surrounding community

8.8. The “Sudanese Conscience”

8.9. Contentious visions on freedom of movement

8.10. Conclusions

8.11. References

Chapter 9: Migrants at stake. Agency and autonomy in Ventimiglia, Silvia Aru 

9.1. Introduction 

9.2. Close to the border control: tactics and counter-conducts

9.3. A geography of good and bad countries: journeys to Ventimiglia and beyond

9.4. Control of spaces / action of bodies:

9.5. ‘Do you want to return home?’  

9.6. Conclusions

9.7. References 

Chapter 10: Opportunities and obstacles in (un)politicizing a European border, Daniela Trucco 

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Mobilizing against borders and/or in solidarity with migrants

10.3. An interactional approach to (de)politicization

10.4. Ventimiglia’s space of solidarity

10.5. The ‘No Border’ galaxy: continuity and evolutions in action repertoires

10.6. ‘No Border’ camps and the foundational experience of the Presidio

10.7. Going beyond camps: the second wave of ‘No Border’ collectives

10.8. A plural ‘local’ civil society and the hegemonic position of the local Catholic Church

10.9. The ‘sheltering experience’ in the Sant’Antonio church

10.10. Depoliticizing activism, politicizing humanitarianism?

10.11. Conclusions

10.12. References 

Chapter 11: Crimes of solidarity. The battlefield of the Roja Valley, Luca Giliberti 

11.1. A valley crossed by the border

11.2. Practices of hospitality and transit support

11.3. Endogenous solidarity for a territorial struggle

11.4. References

Chapter 12: On the French-Italian border. Guards’ visions in the landscape, Francesco Migliaccio

O autorze

Livio Amigoni is a PhD Candidate in the Social Sciences at the University Genoa, Italy.

Silvia Aru is an Assistant Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

 Ivan Bonnin is a PhD Candidate in European Studies at Roma Tre University, Italy. 

Gabriele Proglio is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy. 

Cecilia Vergnano is Marie Slodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Blurb

This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activities related to its proximity to the frontier. While several projects have analyzed other symbolic places of the EU migration crisis such as Lampedusa, Calais and Lesvos, there is a severe empirical gap regarding Ventimiglia, a border town at the very geographic core of the Schengen area. This case study may provide emblematic insights into what European migratory movements are currently revealing in terms of the lack of shared responsibility between EU Member States, the EU common asylum system and respect for human rights, with increasing claims for national sovereignty by some Member States.