RISULTATI RICERCA

Il contributo descrive un’esperienza di dialogo interreligioso attraverso i linguaggi artistici, collegati ad eventi live pubblici che si svolge a Brescia dal 2016 con la partecipazione di istituzioni e associazioni della società civile (comunità di fede, centri religiosi e culturali, artisti e cittadini). Il ricorso ai linguaggi artistico-performativi come medium del dialogo interreligioso si richiama al concetto di performance (Schechner, 1988). Obiettivo è dimostrare che il dialogo effettivo risulta dalla mediazione tra gli attori partecipanti e la rete istituzionale e come il suo successo dipenda dalla partecipazione degli attori stessi al processo creativo. Dopo una introduzione teorica sul rapporto arte-dialogo interreligioso, e sull'approccio sociologico al dialogo, vengono messi in luce i principali elementi del setting creativo che contribuiscono a favorire o ostacolare il dialogo. Nella 1 parte (il “fare”) si ricostruiscono le fasi di avviamento del contenitore festival di arti e culture religiose. Nella 2 parte (il “disfare”) si elencano i punti d’arresto nel processo dialogico, gli incidenti interculturali avvenuti a causa di diverse interpretazioni delle forme artistiche e dei vincoli posti da un determinato canone religioso. Nella 3 parte (il “ricomporre”) si tratta delle strategie adottate a seguito della presa di coscienza e di una elaborazione collegiale delle vie d’uscita.

This paper places focus on the little explored space of the transition to adulthood and beyond for young African men who sought asylum in Italy as ‘unaccompanied minors’. Empirical data is drawn from over five years’ ethnographic research (2017 – 2023) with the young men, housed originally in a reception centre for minors in Bologna. The paper traces the young men’s experiences both within and beyond the reception system that housed them as minors. Once outside the reception system, when the young men must access the private rental market as ‘adults’, they find their mobility within the city constrained by their racialisation and marginalization. This paper places attention on the housing crisis that is afflicting Bologna and how, for the young men, as racialized migrants, the effects of the crisis are worse. It evidences how the borders of race continue to create problems for these young men as they seek to make claims to space and belonging, to find a home in Bologna as ‘adults’.

Migrants’ descendants have always attracted the attention of social research, particularly in the field of migration studies. Indeed, their condition on the edge between cultural and political containers makes them central subjects in the analysis of migration processes and outcomes. For over twenty years, Italian studies have also focused on this social group, producing numerous - and sometimes disconnected - studies. The literature review draws a summary picture of this production, identifying the main trends, the most discussed topics and the gaps still present.

Using a qualitative approach, the paper examines the perceptions of Second-Generation Oeople (SGPs) racialized in Italy regarding their mental health, the related needs and the strategies adopted to address them. Through the analysis of podcasts recorded by young racialized Italians, it explores the complex link between systemic racism and mental health. In Italy SGPs often face dynamics of othering, discrimination and racialization, that may generate reactions such as anxiety, isolation, or depression. Finding adequate support is difficult due to the lack of awareness among mental health professionals of the connection between racism and psychological distress. A further problem is the stigmatization of psychotherapy by many families of origin. The analyzed podcasts become spaces for resistance and activism, that promote awareness of the impact of inequalities on collective health, offering opportunities to create a more inclusive and equitable social environment.

Attraverso la forma del diario etnografico, due voci – un ricercatore e un’operatrice sociale – imbarcati su due unità della flotta civile nel Mediterraneo Centrale documentano i conflitti attorno al soccorso in mare, la guerra alla mobilità e le pratiche di resistenza, le dinamiche relazionali a bordo e a terra, le interazioni con le autorità, l’essere equipaggio nel mondo del Search and Rescue. Questo contributo vuole restituire la complessità di un contesto segnato da tensioni: tra mobilità e controllo, solidarietà e legalità, protocolli operativi e vissuti individuali. Le due navi della flotta civile, qui ribattezzate Raissa e Despina in omaggio a Italo Calvino, si configurano come spazi eterotopici: spazi liminali in tempi liminali in cui si generano forme inedite di relazione, cura e presenza. Posizionarsi in mare e nel soccorso civile non solo costituisce un osservatorio privilegiato per indagare le trasformazioni delle politiche di frontiera, ma afferma anche il ruolo congiunto di ricerca e azione nella produzione di sapere in un contesto politico e violento quale il Mediterraneo Centrale.

In recent years, within the context of the so-called European reception crisis, there has been a marked intensification of securitarian approaches to border management, accompanied by a rise in deaths along increasingly treacherous migratory routes. This process unfolds within a scenario of growing migratory turbulence and the escalating exercise of necropolitical violence and its humanitarian justification. The policies implemented by the European Union and third countries to control and contain irregular migration – framed within a paradigm that we define as “migration prohibition” – have proven ineffective, instead generating ripple effects that are problematic for different actors and spaces. This article presents the findings of a multi-sited collective ethnography conducted between December 2020 and April 2025 across the Mediterranean space between Italy and Tunisia, along an increasingly externalised border. The ethnographic data, emerging from interconnected research experiences between the island of Lampedusa and Tunisia, aim to contribute to the ongoing debate on Central Mediterranean migration. The study offers a transnational perspective and proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding current forms of border crossing, cohabitation, and the production of imaginaries within the Afro-European maritime space.

The Italy-Albania Protocol established in November 2023 centres operating under Italian jurisdiction outside EU territory, marking a qualitative transformation in European border governance. This paper deploys genealogical analysis to trace how border procedures evolved from territorial exception to extraterritorial projection, interrogating the mutations in governmental rationality that rendered such arrangements acceptable. Drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2024 across key sites of border control in the central Mediterranean - Pozzallo, Lampedusa, Pantelleria, Tunisia, and the French-Italian alpine border - combined with systematic documentary analysis of policy frameworks and Standard Operating Procedures, the article identifies three distinct phases. The first phase (2015-2019) establishes checkpointization of the external border, where the hotspot functions as intraterritorial extrajudicial space - a threshold where legal order is suspended de facto. The second phase (2020-2023) witnesses fragmentation and mobility, as screening procedures splinter across quarantine ships and temporary sites, whilst “landings at the internal border” reveal renationalization of border control through programmed inefficiency. The third phase (2024-present) encompasses extraterritorialization: EU procedures enacted outside EU territory through disaggregated sovereignty. Rather than interpreting the Albania centres through operational effectiveness, the genealogical lens illuminates how exceptional measures normalized across a decade now materialize beyond territorial boundaries, with a shift from checkpoint to extraterritorial enclave.