Over the last two decades, research on unauthorized migration has departed from the
equation of migrant illegality with absolute exclusion, emphasizing that formal exclusion …

This book explores the border-crossing mobilities of refugees within Europe. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork in Germany and Italy, it examines the precarious everyday lives of …

Despite many efforts to combat irregular immigration, there is a widespread perception of a
failure of public policies in this field. But because unauthorised immigrants are officially …

This article examines the enduring alterations in behaviors, practices, and self-image that
immigrants' evolving knowledge of and participation in the legalization process facilitate …

This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil
society, in treatment of the issue of refugees' reception. It suggests the concept of “de …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

This article examines the relationship between space and politics though an exploration of
the political theories of Arendt, Laclau, Mouffe and Rancière. It starts with an engagement …

This article explores the idea of political subjectivity in Hannah Arendt and Jacques
Rancière, both of whom I see as thinkers of ruptural and inaugurative politics with a …

Immigration issues have gained salience at political agendas of governments and in public
discourse in most countries of the global North. Public attention for the presence of …

This article advances the concept of spiritual citizenship to examine how some religiously
active migrants employ religion to see themselves as, and to try to become, less deportable …