Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. In the first section, I outline some contextual elements to frame the housing issue in Italy, while in the second I bring certain conceptual and methodological tools from both anthropology and other disciplines to bear on interpreting the phenomenon of residential eviction. In the third section, I present several case studies investigated during my fieldwork to illustrate four «logics of expulsion» that pave the way for understanding the richness...
This paper seeks to give ethnographic evidence of the role played by anthropological knowledge when ...
This article examines how the experience of protracted displacement interacts with mobility desires ...
Public housing suburbs are often an important element in reshaping the social and spatial geography ...
In this article we question the meanings and social practices related to living and working in the S...
The recent interventions of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) to suspend evictions of...
In the Italian context, buying a house is considered one of the most important social, economic, and...
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes ...
This article examines how the experience of protracted displacement interacts with mobility desires ...
This paper provides an explanation for the postponement of the youth emancipa- tion in the Italian c...
The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a majo...
Starting from ethnographic research begun in 2015, the essay seeks to analyse some specific forms of...
In contemporary society, where inequalities between the 'native' population and migrants are increas...
AbstractThis article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants' presence in Ventimiglia...
The territories between Casal di Principe and the Domitian Coast have been at the center of the migr...
Over the last decade, the growing dynamic of housing needs, experiences of instability, crumbling we...
This paper seeks to give ethnographic evidence of the role played by anthropological knowledge when ...
This article examines how the experience of protracted displacement interacts with mobility desires ...
Public housing suburbs are often an important element in reshaping the social and spatial geography ...
In this article we question the meanings and social practices related to living and working in the S...
The recent interventions of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) to suspend evictions of...
In the Italian context, buying a house is considered one of the most important social, economic, and...
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes ...
This article examines how the experience of protracted displacement interacts with mobility desires ...
This paper provides an explanation for the postponement of the youth emancipa- tion in the Italian c...
The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a majo...
Starting from ethnographic research begun in 2015, the essay seeks to analyse some specific forms of...
In contemporary society, where inequalities between the 'native' population and migrants are increas...
AbstractThis article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants' presence in Ventimiglia...
The territories between Casal di Principe and the Domitian Coast have been at the center of the migr...
Over the last decade, the growing dynamic of housing needs, experiences of instability, crumbling we...
This paper seeks to give ethnographic evidence of the role played by anthropological knowledge when ...
This article examines how the experience of protracted displacement interacts with mobility desires ...
Public housing suburbs are often an important element in reshaping the social and spatial geography ...