Silos in Trieste, Italy. A Historical Shelter for Displaced People

1noThe article is concernig a massive semi-abandoned historical building, called the ‘Silos’, located in downtown Trieste (North-East Italy, on border area with Slovenia), few meters away the port and the central railwaystation, which constituted a gathering place for Jews and a reception centre for Italian exiles during WW2. Since 2014 Silos has become an informal shelter for refugees arriving via the Balkans: it is a useful place of anchorage and a free choice of ‘homing’ for migrants in transit. The ambivalence of this shelter is it serves as a protective and collective space, but also as a place where migrants are pushed back to the margins. Silos seems to be a porous filter that allows anchoring and mobility for refugees in the European threshold.The volume is n. 39 Series FORCED MIGRATION, published in association with the Refugees Studies Centre,University of Oxford, reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the field and includes within its scope international law, anthropology, sociology, politics, international relations, geopolitics, social psychology and economics.partially_openopenL'editoriale aveva un'embargo che ho tolto. Verificato sul sito dell'editore che i capitoli possono essere messi nel archivio istituzionale nella versione post-print con un'embargo di 24 mesi (LL)Roberta AltinAltin, Robert