Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3420-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced and transformed in the rooms of ordinary buildings converted into shelters for asylum seekers.

Drawing on postcolonial and feminist approaches, the author explores the intersection of global and local histories, migrant stories and bordering processes, providing a timely lens for understanding migration today.

This is an invaluable contribution to debates on EU borders, including their logistical management, their coloniality and the autonomous force of migration that subverts them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Novak, Paolo

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Buildings as Protagonists

2. The Place of Asylum Infrastructure

3. Provincializing Logistics

4. Destabilizing Coloniality

5. Placing Autonomy

6. The Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

Über Autor(innen)

Novak, Paolo
Paolo Novak is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Co-Director of Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS University of London.

Paolo Novak is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS University of London.