https://j-anderlini.com/publications/ Recent content in Publications on Jacopo Anderlini Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2026 Jacopo Anderlini Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hostis/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hostis/ <p><strong>Hostis. Il paradigma dell&rsquo;ospitalità</strong> 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.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/new-gaze-mediterranean-crossroads/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/new-gaze-mediterranean-crossroads/ <p>Peer-reviewed article published in <em>Mondi Migranti</em>, 3 (2025). ISSN: 1972-4888.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hotspot-approach-italy-genealogy/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hotspot-approach-italy-genealogy/ <p>Peer-reviewed article published in <em>Mondi Migranti</em>, 3 (2025). ISSN: 1972-4888.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/de-presentify-border-social-imaginaries-mobility-justice/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/de-presentify-border-social-imaginaries-mobility-justice/ <p>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.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/metaverso-treccani/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/metaverso-treccani/ <p>Encyclopedia entry in the <em>Enciclopedia Treccani</em> (2025).</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/alpine-crossroads-constellation-refuges-nature-infrastructure/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/alpine-crossroads-constellation-refuges-nature-infrastructure/ <p>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.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/digital-border-review/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/digital-border-review/ <p>Book review published in <em>Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia</em>, 2 (2024).</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/humanitarian-border-reprise-anti-trafficking/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/humanitarian-border-reprise-anti-trafficking/ <p>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.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/emerging-solidarity-unauthorized-routes/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/emerging-solidarity-unauthorized-routes/ <p>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.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/crocevia-mediterraneo/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/crocevia-mediterraneo/ <p><strong>Crocevia Mediterraneo</strong> presents the results of an unprecedented ethnographic journey through the central Mediterranean migration routes. This collective work, conducted aboard the research vessel Tanimar, offers a radically new perspective on the Mediterranean as a space of encounter rather than division, challenging dominant narratives about borders and mobility.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/cronaca-giornata-libeccio-lampedusa/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/cronaca-giornata-libeccio-lampedusa/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Fravega E. (eds.), <em>Crocevia Mediterraneo</em>, Elèuthera, Milano, pp. 135-138. ISBN: 9788833022079.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/fare-ricerca-attraverso-il-mare/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/fare-ricerca-attraverso-il-mare/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Fravega E. (eds.), <em>Crocevia Mediterraneo</em>, Elèuthera, Milano, pp. 7-14. ISBN: 9788833022079.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/lo-stato-visto-dalle-porto-frontiere/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/lo-stato-visto-dalle-porto-frontiere/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Fravega E. (eds.), <em>Crocevia Mediterraneo</em>, Elèuthera, Milano, pp. 67-76. ISBN: 9788833022079.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/razzializzazione-in-corso-insediamenti-informali/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/razzializzazione-in-corso-insediamenti-informali/ <p>Questo studio esamina i processi di razzializzazione del territorio attraverso l&rsquo;analisi degli insediamenti informali di migranti nei distretti agricoli del Mezzogiorno, rivelando come queste forme abitative funzionino come dispositivi di organizzazione del lavoro bracciantile.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/stare-mare/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/stare-mare/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Fravega E. (eds.), <em>Crocevia Mediterraneo</em>, Elèuthera, Milano, pp. 35-40. ISBN: 9788833022079.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/european-digital-border/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/european-digital-border/ <p>Position paper published in the <em>Disruption Network Lab Position Papers</em> series (2023).</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/camps-archipelago-ethnography-migrant-agricultural-laborers/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/camps-archipelago-ethnography-migrant-agricultural-laborers/ <p>This ethnographic research provides an in-depth analysis of migrant agricultural workers&rsquo; experiences in rural Sicily, examining how an &lsquo;archipelago of camps&rsquo; structures both mobility patterns and labor relations in the seasonal agricultural sector.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/imbrigliamento-attraverso-mobilita-esodo-diffuso/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/imbrigliamento-attraverso-mobilita-esodo-diffuso/ <p>This ethnographic study analyzes the mechanisms of control and practices of escape within seasonal agricultural labor mobility in Sicily, focusing on the potato harvest in Cassibile and examining how workers&rsquo; refusal and departure practices create fractures in labor harnessing mechanisms.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/borderland-italia/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/borderland-italia/ <p><strong>Borderland Italia</strong> examines Italy as a crucial borderland in the European migration context, analyzing the conflictual relationships between migrant agency, solidarity networks, and governance mechanisms. Through ethnographic research across Italian territories, the volume offers insights into contemporary migration dynamics and citizenship construction.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/emerging-forms-sociotechnical-organisation/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/emerging-forms-sociotechnical-organisation/ <p>This chapter examines the Fediverse as an emerging form of sociotechnical organisation based on digital ethnographical work conducted since 2018.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/che-cose-il-metaverso/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/che-cose-il-metaverso/ <p>Article published in <em>Gli Asini</em>, 99 (2022). ISSN: 2038-3924.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hole-in-hotspot-undocumented-migration-lampedusa/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hole-in-hotspot-undocumented-migration-lampedusa/ <p>This ethnographic study analyzes the transformation of Lampedusa&rsquo;s hotspot during the pandemic, examining how a literal and metaphorical &lsquo;hole&rsquo; in the fence represented the tension between containment and mobility, and how its closure symbolized the tightening of European border controls.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/circolazioni-borderland/ Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/circolazioni-borderland/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Filippi D., Giliberti L. (eds.), <em>Borderland Italia. Regime di frontiera e autonomia delle migrazioni</em>, DeriveApprodi, Roma, pp. 27-58. ISBN: 9788865484609.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/confini-soggettivita-migranti-solidarieta/ Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/confini-soggettivita-migranti-solidarieta/ <p>Book chapter in Anderlini J., Filippi D., Giliberti L. (eds.), <em>Borderland Italia. Regime di frontiera e autonomia delle migrazioni</em>, DeriveApprodi, Roma, pp. 5-25. ISBN: 9788865484609.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/fitful-circulations/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/fitful-circulations/ <p>This article presents findings from extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Sicily since 2016, examining the complex dynamics of migrant circulation in what I term the &ldquo;Sicilian transit zone.&rdquo;</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/approccio-hotspot-navi-quarantena/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/approccio-hotspot-navi-quarantena/ <p>An analysis of European border policies during the pandemic, highlighting the inadequacies and inhumanity of the system, particularly regarding quarantine ships.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/mediterraneo-come-frontiera/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/mediterraneo-come-frontiera/ <p>Book chapter in Mililli M. (ed.), <em>La &ldquo;fascia trasformata&rdquo; del ragusano. Diritti dei lavoratori, migranti, agromafie e salute pubblica</em>, Sicilia Punto L, Ragusa, pp. 169-180. ISBN: 8894514838.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/einleitung-migrationspolitik-italiens/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/einleitung-migrationspolitik-italiens/ <p>Book chapter in Borderline Europe - Menschenrechte ohne Grenzen e.V. (eds.), <em>Die Situation der Geflüchtete auf Sizilien</em>, Borderline Europe, Berlin, pp. 4-6.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/intorno-allhotspot/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/intorno-allhotspot/ <p>This chapter examines the spatial and temporal dimensions of the hotspot apparatus through ethnographic research conducted in Pozzallo since 2016.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/border-troubles/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/border-troubles/ <p>This chapter examines the role of medical expertise within the European hotspot system, based on ethnographic research conducted in Pozzallo, Italy.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/cura-controllo/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/cura-controllo/ <p>An analysis of medical expertise within the hotspot system, examining the double dimension of care and control in border administration.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hackit-98/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/hackit-98/ <p>A reflection on the relationship between digital technologies, communication and artistic experimentation in the Italian hacker and countercultural community of the 1990s.</p> https://j-anderlini.com/publications/nilde-web-services/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://j-anderlini.com/publications/nilde-web-services/ <p>Conference proceedings chapter in <em>Atti del convegno Dead or alive? Le frontiere dei servizi bibliotecari nell&rsquo;era della condivisione: 15 anni della comunità NILDE</em>, Roma Tre-Press, Roma, pp. 235-251. ISBN: 9788894885415.</p>