The study employs a critical lens to examine the interplay between migration governance and the right to housing. Employing an interscalar analysis of migration policies, it will look at the role of territories in shaping social and spatial inequalities. The technical-administrative asylum system will be explored to understand how access to residency and housing becomes a powerful device of internal bordering. The study’s findings underscore the potential for policy inconsistencies to engender dynamics of precarisation and racialisation. The case study examines the Reception and Integration System (SAI) in Italy, focusing specifically on the Campania region in the south of the country. Observing the interplay of institutional frameworks, market forces, civil society actors, and the fixed material landscape of these territories a paradoxical condition emerges. While small communities can accelerate certain forms of social reception, the structural absence of jobs and mobility obstructs economic independence. This friction generates a cyclical movement, a “loop”, within the reception system, compelling migrants to undertake an in-and-out movement. The role of Third Sector and NGO actors in negotiating these systemic deficiencies is here examined, highlighting the territory’s dual potential as both an amplifier of vulnerability and a hub for collaborative, bottom-up practices of inclusion. The analysis of this local ecosystem is therefore fundamental to comprehend the broader nexus of migration, exacerbation of inequalities, and urban issues, and to identify new territorial ecologies capable of disrupting this cycle.
Marina Volpe
Hybrid seminar
Join in situ: National Centre for Social Research, 9 Kratinou str., 10552 Athens (4th floor)
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The presentation of Marina Volpe is part of the seminar series Cities Lately of the LaSTcity which aims to contribute to the contemporary dialogue about cities as places that never cease to change. We engage in discussions with researchers from Greece and abroad about the shifting urban landscapes and their dynamic impacts on social organization and social life. We raise questions about new inequalities, divisions and displacements; about the redefinition of the city’s boundaries and its relationship with nature; about the economy of the city and the forms of its crisis; about spatial justice and the forms of its claims; about the new processes of producing the built environment; and about institutions and mechanisms of urban governance. About cities that suffocate, cities that breathe, and about everything… that is transforming (again) in cities lately.