#escapes2021 International Online Conference
Mediterranean Crossings:
Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times
University of Milan, 24 – 26 June 2021
- 10:00 AM -1:00 PM Opening plenary
- 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Panel 4A session 1 (ITA) – Panel 6 (ENG)
- 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Panel 4A session 2 (ITA) – Panel 5 (ENG)
- 9:00 AM -11:00 AM Panel 8 (ENG) – Panel 4B session 1 (ITA)
- 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Panel 1 (ENG) – Panel 4B session 2 (ITA)
- 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Panel 2 (ITA) – Panel 3 (ENG)
- 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Roundtable (ENG)
- 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Closing plenary
- FILM PLATFORM
All times are in Central Europe Summer Time CEST (GMT + 2)
Thursday 24 June 2021
10:00 AM -1:00 PM Opening Plenary
Chair: Monica Massari (University of Milan)
- 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Welcome Remarks
Elio Franzini, Rector of the University of Milan
Ilaria Viarengo, Director of the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies, University of Milan
Luca Maria Bianchi, Director of the Department of Philosophy Piero Martinetti
Luca Ciabarri, Escapes, University of Milan
- 10:15 AM -10:30 AM Introduction on the Conference’s aims, vision and proposed approach
Monica Massari (University of Milan)
- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM How to narrate? Storytelling and auto-ethnography
– Screening of “Waiting” (17:09 min., 2020, by Shahram Khosravi and Dagmawi Yimer)
– Reading by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
– Screening of the film’s trailer “Chauka Please Tell Us The Time” (Arash Kamali Sarvestani, Behrouz Boochani)
– A conversation of Alessandro Triulzi (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories) with Ubah Cristina Ali Farah (writer, poet, performer, social activist), Behrouz Boochani (University of Canterbury (NZ)/University of New South Wales), Shahram Khosravi (Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University), Omid Tofighian (University of New South Wales/University of Sydney) and Dagmawi Yimer (filmmaker)
– Questions and discussion
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
PANEL 4A Session 1 (Ita)
I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Etiche e politiche dell’attivismo
Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)
- Sparare sulla Croce Rossa: politiche e prassi umanitarie al confine nord-orientale di Trieste
Roberta Altin (University of Trieste) - Inclusione sociale delle/dei richiedenti asilo: Forza e ambivalenze delle “buone pratiche” autorganizzate tra autonomia e paternalismo
Omid Firouzi Tabar (University of Padua) - Tra necessità e critica del sistema: uno sportello giuridico in Francia
Federico De Salvo (independent researcher) - Cruise ship to quarantine ship in the border space of the Central Mediterranean Sea. Racialized quarantine practices in the time of COVID-19
Elena Giacomelli (University of Bologna), Sarah Walker (University of Bologna)
PANEL 6 (Eng)
Border crossings, memories and opacity: potentials and limits of participatory audio-visual experiences
Convenor: Gianluca Gatta (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories)
- Cultural participation through mediated memorialization
Karina Horsti (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) - “Unwritten letters”: unwriting ‘the’ migrant experience through film and friendship
Abd Alrahman Dukmak (filmmaker), Maximilian Bloching (filmmaker) - What makes me “capture” stories: the sedimentation of audio-visual memories across the Mediterranean
Zakaria Mohamed Ali (filmmaker, AMM – Archive of migrant memories, Italy) - Against Narrative Extraction, Aesthetic Austerity, and Voyeurism
Hanna Musiol (Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
PANEL 4A Session 2 (Ita)
I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Etiche e politiche dell’attivismo
Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)
- Correnti mediterranee: politiche e umanitarismo nel Canale di Sicilia
Jasmine Iozzelli (University of Turin) - Di sguardi scomodi, voci critiche e disobbedienza civile: criminalizzazione e battaglia legale nel Mediterraneo centrale
Chiara Denaro (University of Trento), Deanna Dadusc (University of Brighton) - Diritto di asilo e principi fondamentali: i limiti costituzionali al respingimento
Filippo Scuto (University of Milan) - Rethinking the concept of humanitarianism through SAR NGOs in the central Mediterranean Sea between humanitarianism and political solidarity
Eugenia Blasetti (PhD Student, Sapienza University of Rome) - Disvelare l’umanità: sessualità, migrazioni forzate e intersezionalità queer
Romina Amicolo (lawyer, Escapes)
PANEL 5 (Eng)
Follow the money: migration industry, refugees’ unpaid labour and value extraction
Convenors: Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London), Ana Valdivia (King’s College)
- Big data revolution in migration management: beyond ethics
Foteini Kalantzi (A.G. Leventis Research Officer, South East European Studies, University of Oxford), Myriam Fotou (Lecturer in International Relations, University of Leicester) - Collecting, assembling, ordering: borders, asylum, and the invisible labour of data
Lucrezia Canzutti (King’s College London), Claudia Aradau (King’s College London) - Following the money at the EU datafied border: A digital methodology to shed light on eu-LISA and Frontex contracts
Ana Valdivia (King’s College, London) - TO BE CONFIRMED
Giacomo Zandonini (journalist)
Friday 25 June 2021
9:00 AM -11:00 AM
PANEL 8 (Eng)
The implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in the Mediterranean Borderscape: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Infrastructure of Migration Management
Convenor: Chiara Pagano (University of Bologna)
Chairs: Bilgin Ayata (University of Graz), Kenny Cupers (University of Basel)
- Migration management as Extrastatecraft: The EU Hotspots as Infrastructure Spaces of Filtering
Bilgin Ayata (University of Graz) - The spatiality of the hotspot approach in Italy: between facilities’ invisibilization and migrant persons’ mobilization
Chiara Pagano (University of Bologna) - The Hotspot Approach in Greece: The infrastructure space of filtering at the Eastern Mediterranean Borderscape
Artemis Fyssa (University of Basel/Graz) - The Role of Infrastructure in EU Migration Management: An Architectural lens on the Implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in Greece
Alaa Dia (University of Basel)
PANEL 4B Session 1 (Ita)
I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Razzializzazione, classe, genere e diritti
Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)
- Frontiera Sud, la rivista: l’umanitario come frontiera
Giuseppe Grimaldi (Frontiera Sud), Paolo Gaibazzi (University of Bayreuth/Frontiera Sud) - La classe e “la prigione aperta sopra”. Solidarietà, partecipazione e rapporti di potere nel sistema dell’asilo
Francesca Morra (University of Turin) - Pensare, immaginare, costruire, reti di donne per un umanitarismo femminista
Ines Rielli (expert in violence, trafficking, and serious exploitation), Irene Strazzeri (University of Salento) - I percorsi delle donne nigeriane richiedenti asilo e vittime di tratta e dei Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati attraverso il confine del Brennero
Serena Caroselli (University of Genoa, Unesco SSIIM Chair – University of Venice)
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
PANEL 1 (Eng)
Ethical dilemmas in migration research: beyond protocols and procedures towards a politics of migrants’ voice
Chairs: Monica Massari (University of Milan) and Ombretta Ingrascì (University of Milan)
- Beyond extractivism? On some everyday ethical dilemmas in forced migration research
Milena Belloni (Forum of International and European Research on Immigration – FIERI and Flemish Research Foundation FWO), Pietro Cingolani (FIERI and University of Bologna), Yassin Dia (FIERI), Giuseppe Grimaldi (FIERI and Frontiera Sud), Ferruccio Pastore (FIERI) - Nobody’s voice but ours: the conscious silencing of migrants’ perspectives in smuggling research
Gabriella Sanchez (Independent researcher) - Doing research on migration and borders in a ‘hostile environment’: some ethical dilemmas from a fieldwork in Ceuta and Melilla
Valentina Marconi (University of Urbino) - Speaking about the city through migrants’ voice. Writing the city through migrants’ sign
Nausicaa Pezzoni (Polytechnic University of Milan)
PANEL 4B Session 2 (Ita)
I dilemmi dell’umanitarismo tra diritto, politiche e pratiche
Razzializzazione, classe, genere e diritti
Convenors: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan), Barbara Pinelli (Roma Tre University)
- “I’m not hiding; you want me to hide. Yet, I am so visible!” Undocumented migrants as translocal legal subjectivities
Giulia Fabini (University of Bologna) - Power, Mediation, Resistance. Street-Level Bureaucracy, Third Sector Facilitators and Migrants
Tindaro Bellinvia (Scipog-Unime) - L’umanitario tra depoliticizzazione e accumulazione capitalistica
Osvaldo Costantini (University of Messina) - Umanitarismo come razzializzazione? Per una lettura postcoloniale dello sfruttamento umanitario del lavoro migrante
Francesco Marchi (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
PANEL 2 (Ita)
2011-2021: dieci anni di accoglienza di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati in Italia
Convenors: Davide Biffi (University of Milano-Bicocca), Emanuela Dal Zotto (University of Pavia)
- Centri d’italia: la retorica dell’emergenza e il sistema di accoglienza in crisi
Fabrizio Coresi (ActionAid migration expert), Cristiano Maugeri (ActionAid programme developer) - Dieci anni di accoglienza in emergenza. Prospettive dalla Sicilia
Elio Tozzi (Borderline Sicily Association), Emilio Caja (Borderline Sicily Association) - L’accoglienza tra dinamismo delle norme, responsabilità degli operatori, coinvolgimento della comunità: riflessioni a partire dal caso di studio Wonderful World (Parma)
Ilaria Capuzzimati (University of Parma, Ciac onlus), Chiara Marchetti (Ciac onlus), Vincenza Pellegrino (University of Parma) - Le tre stagioni della solidarietà: evoluzioni e transizioni nell’azione volontaria a favore dei migranti vulnerabili
Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milan) - Promuovere percorsi d’integrazione dei rifugiati e richiedenti asilo in tempi di politiche restrittive: le pratiche della società civile in tre città del Nord Italia
Iraklis Dimitriadis (University of Milan)
PANEL 3 (Eng)
Collecting memories of solidarity on and beyond Mediterranean crossings
Convenors: Amira Ahmed (American University of Cairo), Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths, University of London), Fatma Raach (University of Jendouba)
- Towards a genealogy of migrants’ struggles: the Alpine migrant passage and the temporality of solidarity
Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths, University of London) - Cartographies of invisible travellers: Mapping migrant detention in Italy and the Mediterranean during the Covid-19 syndemic
Emilio Caja (University of Oxford), Giacomo Mattiello (University of Turin) - A research on phases, actors and profiles of contemporary forced migration: “Pensavo di essere libero, invece no.” Debiti, violenze, sfruttamento dei trafficanti nelle memorie autografe dei rifugiati
Michele Rossi (Director, Ciac onlus) - From the de-humanizing experience of the exile to the solidarity movements in Kakuma
Angelo Pittaluga (University of Genova, Country Director at JRS – the Jesuit Refugees Service, Kenya), William O’Neill (Santa Clara University)
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Roundtable (Eng)
The use of law in the struggles for freedom of movement: opportunity or limitation?
Coordinated by Elena Fontanari (University of Milan), Lucia Gennari (ASGI), Carlo Caprioglio (Roma Tre University), Francesco Ferri (ASGI)
With the participation of: Francesca Esposito (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford), Fiorenza Picozza (Institute of Geography UNAM, Mexico), Enrica Rigo (Roma Tre University), Maurice Stierl (Warwick University of London / Alarm Phone)
Saturday 26 June 2021
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Closing Plenary
Disquieting memories and hidden archives in and across a postcolonial sea
Chair: Luca Ciabarri (University of Milan)
- 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Introduction and presentation of the speakers
Gianluca Gatta (AMM – Archive of Migrant Memories)
- 10:15 AM – 1:00 PM
– Disquieting archives and uncertain narratives
Iain Chambers (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
– Screening of “All’aldilàdiqua” (30:00 min, by Alessandra Cianelli and Opher Thomson)
– A conversation of Liliana Ellena (BABE – European University Institute) with Alessandra Cianelli (artist and writer)
– Questions and discussion
– Closing speech: Jean-Pierre Cassarino (College of Europe, Natolin Campus)
FILM PLATFORM
From 17 to 27 June 2021 a list of films – directed by some of the speakers or related to the conference themes – will be available at: www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net/mc-filmplatform/
#escapes2021 flyer .pdf
#escapes2021 plenaries and panels program .pdf
Book of abstracts
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