Jacopo Anderlini

Hostis. Il paradigma dell'ospitalità

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hostis. Il paradigma dell’ospitalità presents a critical analysis of contemporary migration governance in Europe through an archaeological examination of the concept of hospitality. The book reveals how hospitality operates as a political device that simultaneously includes and excludes, establishing the boundaries of who belongs and who remains outside European societies.

Working Group 'Digital Borders'

Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker and workshop coordinator of the Working Group “Digital Borders” at the ASGI Border Camp “Re-Writing Borders. Future Tense, Past Present”, Convitto Palmieri, Lecce, 21-23 May 2026.

Seeing Like a Machinic Border: Operational Images and their Representations

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Martino Morandi (Constant VZW) in the session “Borders, Space & Migration” at the Conference on Emerging Technologies in Conflict & Peace, DIGITS — Digital Transitions & Society / ECPR Critical Peace & Conflict Standing Group, University of Nicosia, 18-19 May 2026.

A Counterdictionary of the Border: Words and Images from the Central Mediterranean

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Luca Giliberti in the panel “Border Imageries” at the international conference “Negotiating Borders Through Art”, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, 15-17 May 2026.

A new gaze on the Mediterranean crossroads: mobilities, frictions and encounters

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Peer-reviewed article published in Mondi Migranti, 3 (2025). ISSN: 1972-4888.

The Hotspot Approach in Italy: A Genealogy of Border Exceptionalism

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Peer-reviewed article published in Mondi Migranti, 3 (2025). ISSN: 1972-4888.

Infrastructuring solidarity

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Discussant for the “Infrastructuring solidarity” session at the ERC SOLROUTES Intermediate Conference, University of Genoa, 24-27 November 2025.

Rethinking Multi-sited Ethnography: Contemporary Methodological Challenges and Innovations

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a methodological session focusing on innovations in multi-sited ethnography, examining how researchers navigate the complexities of studying phenomena that span multiple locations, institutions, and scales.

Performing the Unspoken: Theatre of the Oppressed as Research Methodology with Young Tunisians Exploring Migration Imaginaries

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A contribution examining the application of Theatre of the Oppressed as a research methodology to explore migration imaginaries among young Tunisians, investigating how performative approaches can reveal unspoken narratives and lived experiences of migration.

"Saving Lives", Securing Borders. Anti-trafficking Narratives and Border Practices in Southern Italy

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A contribution analyzing the complex relationship between “saving lives” humanitarian discourse and border securitization practices in Southern Italy, with particular focus on anti-trafficking narratives and their implementation in contemporary border control.

De-presentify the border: social imaginaries and mobility justice

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines how social imaginaries around borders and mobility can be transformed to envision more just forms of movement and belonging, challenging the current restrictive frameworks that govern human mobility.

Metaverso

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Encyclopedia entry in the Enciclopedia Treccani (2025).

Conducting Qualitative Research in Contexts of Violence

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This invited presentation explored the methodological and ethical complexities of conducting ethnographic research in contexts of violence, drawing on extensive fieldwork experience in European border zones and migrant reception facilities.

The Humanitarian Border Revisited: Anti-trafficking Discourse and Border Practices at the Southern Shores of Europe

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A conference presentation examining how anti-trafficking discourses operate at the southern Italian border, revealing the complex entanglement between humanitarian protection and security practices in contemporary migration governance.

Future framing from the border: participatory and multi-situated ethnographies

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker at the research seminar “Future framing from the border: participatory and multi-situated ethnographies”, part of The Mountain Space, PRIN 2020 MOBS exhibition, University of Parma, 12 April 2025.

The Alpine crossroads. Constellation of refuges, nature as infrastructure, selective border control

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This ethnographic study analyzes the Franco-Italian Alpine border as a complex space where humanitarian practices, natural environments, and border controls intersect to create new forms of selective mobility governance.

Attraversare i confini sociali nei mondi educativi: ricerca, didattica e metodi partecipativi

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Conference examining social boundaries in educational contexts through participatory methodologies. The event focuses on first-generation university students’ educational trajectories, employing biographical approaches and Theater of the Oppressed techniques to understand educational experiences and social mobility.

L. Chouliaraki, M. Georgiou, The Digital Border. Migration, Technology, Power, 2022

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Book review published in Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2 (2024).

The digitalization of European borders

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

An invited presentation examining the digital transformation of European border control systems, based on ethnographic research conducted along Southern Italian and Franco-Italian borders. The talk explored how digital infrastructures create new forms of categorization and control in migration governance.

Humanitarian border: reprise. Anti-human trafficking discourses and security practices at the southern Italian border

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article provides a critical analysis of how anti-trafficking discourses operate at the southern Italian border, revealing the complex entanglement between humanitarian protection and security practices in contemporary migration governance.

Safe passages: imagining new access routes

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Round table participant at the conference “From Tripoli to Rome. Imagining and building new safe passages”, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 31 May 2024.

Collective Memories of Transit Across the Mediterranean

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Participation in the scientific-organizational committee for a major international conference exploring the intersection of memory studies and Mediterranean migration, examining how experiences of transit are remembered, narrated, and transmitted across communities.

Legal-sociological clinic on Migration and Borders — seminar series

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Member of the scientific-organizational committee of the seminar series “Legal-sociological clinic on Migration and Borders”, University of Parma, March-May 2024.

Bordering and debordering processes in everyday life

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a session exploring how borders operate beyond formal state boundaries, examining everyday practices of inclusion and exclusion in social, economic, and cultural spheres.

Anatomie del potere nel quotidiano - II Convegno Emancipatory Social Science

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A major conference examining power dynamics in everyday life through emancipatory social science methodologies. The event featured participatory research approaches and critical analysis of structural violence in contemporary societies.

The emerging of solidarity along unauthorized routes: postcards of migrant encounters

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article proposes an innovative theoretical perspective on borders and borderlands that centers solidarity as a key element in understanding migration journeys as social constructions. Through ethnographic research along European frontiers, the study examines how grass-root solidarity networks emerge and operate along unauthorized routes.

The maritime border between norms, legal practice, selection and containment practices

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker at the VIII National Conference of PhD Students in Social Sciences, University of Catania, 1-2 December 2023.

Ambiguities and aporias of Sicilian agriculture between migrant labor exploitation and territorial transformations: the cases of Messina and Syracuse

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Tindaro Bellinvia at the XIV Conference of Environmental Sociology “Crisis and Complexity”, Ortigia, Syracuse, 14-16 September 2023.

In-memorare. Reopening the future through ethnographic practices. A case study on the border

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Paper presented with Vincenza Pellegrino at the V National SISCC Conference “Possible worlds. Between crises, conflicts and creative practices”, Bari, 22-23 June 2023.

Towards a racialization of European space? Exploitation and resistance in agricultural economies

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Organized and chaired a session examining how racialization processes operate in European agricultural economies, bringing together ethnographic studies of migrant labor and spatial segregation in rural contexts.

Crocevia Mediterraneo