The multiple facets of (im)mobility. A multisited ethnography on territorialisation experiences and mobility trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees outside the Italian reception system

Abstract

The article analyses the forms of mobility and (im)mobility of migrants and asylum seekers who are outside the institutional reception system. Through the narration of two ethnographic cases placed in northern and southern Italy, the authors retrace the biographical and geographic trajectories of migrants, and compare them with territorial policies. By analysing two very different contexts from the economic and social point of view, we highlight the similarities between these territories, the mobility and immobility they generate and through which they are crossed, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] RIASSUNTO L’articolo analizza le forme di mobilita e (im)mobilita di rifugiati e richiedenti asilo che si trovano al di fuori del sistema di accoglienza istituzionale. Attraverso la narrazione di due casi etnografici, collocati nell’Italia settentrionale e meridionale, gli autori ripercorrono le traiettorie biografiche e geografiche degli emigranti rifugiati e richiedenti asilo e le mettono a confronto con le politiche territoriali. Analizzando due contesti tra loro molto diversi, dal punto di vista economico e sociale, il contributo mette in evidenza le somiglianze tra questi territori, la mobilita e l’immobilita che essi generano e da cui sono stati attraversati, prima e durante la pandemia di COVID-19. (French) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Modern Italian Studies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)