Table Of ContentMIGRATION,
DIASPORAS AND
CITIZENSHIP
Migration, Borders
and Citizenship
Between Policy
and Public Spheres
Edited by
Maurizio Ambrosini
Manlio Cinalli · David Jacobson
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Department of Social Anthropology
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series
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age, disability and other oppressions. Thirdly, the Series critically engages
the emerging challenges presented by reconfigured borders and
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transgress geopolitical territorial borders to raise dilemmas about con-
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Maurizio Ambrosini · Manlio Cinalli ·
David Jacobson
Editors
Migration, Borders
and Citizenship
Between Policy and Public Spheres
Editors
Maurizio Ambrosini Manlio Cinalli
Department of Social and Political Sciences CEVIPOF
University of Milan Sciences Po
Milan, Italy Paris, France
Department of Social and Political Sciences
David Jacobson
University of Milan
Department of Sociology
Milan, Italy
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
ISSN 2662-2602 ISSN 2662-2610 (electronic)
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Acknowledgements
This book was born out of our research interest in intersecting the fields
of migration, borders and citizenship, and on which the editors of this
collection have been working throughout their careers. This personal
interest led to a series of research programmes funded by national and
international institutions, allowing for development of personal net-
works and research findings that are the basis for this book. Indeed, we
have been very fortunate to reinforce a network of scholars spanning
various countries, in Europe and the United States, for the delivery of
this book.
We thank Sciences Po Paris and the University of Milan for support-
ing the original workshop on “solidarity, migration, borders and citi-
zenship” (title of workshop: Retour des frontières ou ‘Global Seam’? Une
réflexion sur la solidarité transnationale, les droits, et la citoyenneté au
temps de la crise migratoire en Europe) in Menton, where the contributors
to this edited collection gathered in June 2017. The EU H2020 project
TransSOL (“European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis:
conditions, forms, role-models and policy response”; grant agreement
no. 649435) is gratefully acknowledged for funding part of the work-
shop. Our special thanks go to Bernard El Ghoul, Director at Sciences
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Po Menton, for hosting us just one mile away from the controversial
Franco-Italian border of Menton-Ventimiglia, one primary geographical
symbol of migration crisis in Europe.
Contents
1 The Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics:
A Conceptual Framework 1
Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli and David Jacobson
2 From Borders to Seams: The Role of Citizenship 27
Manlio Cinalli and David Jacobson
3 Borders and Migrations: The Fundamental
Contradictions 47
Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
4 “Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote!”:
Contested Denizenship, Immigration Federalism,
and the Dreamers 61
Jamie Goodwin-White
5 ‘Solidarity Crime’ at the Border: A Lesson from France 89
Olivia Müller
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6 Solidarities in Transit on the French–Italian Border:
Ethnographic Accounts from Ventimiglia
and the Roya Valley 109
Luca Giliberti and Luca Queirolo Palmas
7 Border Troubles: Medical Expertise in the Hotspots 141
Jacopo Anderlini
8 The Two Dimensions of the Border: An Empirical
Study France–Italy 163
Carlo De Nuzzo
9 The Local Governance of Immigration and Asylum:
Policies of Exclusion as a Battleground 195
Maurizio Ambrosini
10 The Border(s) Within: Formal and Informal
Processes of Status Production, Negotiation
and Contestation in a Migratory Context 217
Paola Bonizzoni
11 Cities of Exclusion: Are Local Authorities
Refusing Asylum Seekers? 237
Chiara Marchetti
12 Symbolic Laws, Street-Level Actors: Everyday
Bordering in Dutch Participation Declaration
Workshops 265
Barbara Oomen and Emma Leenders
13 Research on Migration, Borders and Citizenship:
The Way Ahead 295
Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli and David Jacobson
Index 307
Notes on Contributors
Maurizio Ambrosini is Professor of Sociology of Migration at the
University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences,
and chargé d’enseignement at the university of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
(France). He is also the editor of the journal Mondi Migranti, and the
Director of the Italian Summer School of Sociology of Migrations, in
Genoa. His handbook, Sociologia delle migrazioni, is adopted as the text-
book in many Italian universities. In English he has published Irregular
Migration and Invisible Welfare (Palgrave, 2013) and recently Irregular
Immigration in Southern Europe—Actors, Dynamics and Governance
(Palgrave, 2018). His articles have been published in several leading
international journals.
Jacopo Anderlini is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences at the
University of Genoa, Department of Education Studies (DISFOR). His
main research themes are migrations, specifically border and refugee
studies; and social movements, adopting mainly qualitative methods.
Recently he has focused on the changes in the governance of mobility
in the European Union, in particular on the employment of new border
technologies and the management of asylum seekers in Italy.
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