Jacopo Anderlini

Jacopo Anderlini
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • PostDoc Position at University of Parma

Researcher in the project MOBS: Mobilities, solidarities and imaginaries across the borders (PRIN 2020).

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Introduction
Jacopo Anderlini is currently a PostDoc Researcher at the Department of Law, Politics and International Studies of the University of Parma. He is part of the Visual Sociology Laboratory of the University of Genoa. Jacopo does research in Border studies, Refugee studies, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Social and Political Philosophy and Urban Sociology mostly using qualitative methods and ethnography. He is co-founder of the research group on the analysis of digital technologies C.I.R.C.E..
Current institution
University of Parma
Current position
  • PostDoc Position

Publications

Publications (16)
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The aim of this article is to stress the possibility of a specific and innovative gaze on borders and borderlands: one that puts solidarity as an encounter and a fabric among people on the move enacting a relentless dynamism along unauthorized routes, constituting one of the key elements for understanding the journey as a social construction. The t...
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The article analyses the friction between anti-human trafficking discourse and border practices in the context of EU migration management: the narrative of protecting migrants from human traffickers, evoked by law enforcement actors, merges with a discourse criminalizing migration, discerning between the migrant as a passive victim – the asylum see...
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The text takes into account mechanisms of harnessing and practices of escape within the spaces of mobility generated by the circulations of seasonal migrant labour in agriculture, considering the case of Sicily. In particular, the harvesting of new potatoes in Cassibile will be analysed, building on the ethnographic fieldwork I have conducted since...
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Nel quadro di un processo di globalizzazione delle filiere agricole, gli insediamenti informali di migranti rappresentano sia il simbolo di una condizione di povertà abitativa anche estrema, sia un luogo fondamentale per la riproduzione sociale della forza lavoro. Allo stesso tempo, questa forma abitativa si rivela essere un dispositivo fondamental...
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The presence of migrant workers in the agricultural system of Southern Italy is cur-rently an essential element of this economic area. This increasing presence is deep-ly linked with the transformations occurred to agricultural markets and hence on the mode of production and distribution, not only in Italy or in Europe but at a global level. Moving...
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Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This edited collection considers algorithms at work – for what purposes encoded data about b...
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Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This edited collection considers algorithms at work – for what purposes encoded data about b...
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The region of Sicily, in the south of Italy, has been at the centre of diverse contemporary migration movements since the 90s. This has made it an ideal setting for experimentation of new border control devices and procedures at the EU level. This article analyses the constellation of migrant circulations – local and seasonal, trans‐local, transnat...
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Il Mulino, Rivista di Cultura e Politica https://www.rivistailmulino.it/a/approccio-hotspot-e-navi-quarantena Le politiche confinarie europee ai tempi della pandemia stanno mettendo in luce tutti i limiti di un sistema inadeguato e foriero di problemi e, soprattutto, disumanità.
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The present contribution considers the “hotspot approach”, a distinct technology of management and control of mobility within the wider European border regime. This apparatus shows the linkage between the discourses and rationalities on security and humanitarianism, depicting what has been called the “humanitarian border”. To tackle these elements,...

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