#escapes2021 – Agenda

#escapes2021 International Online Conference

Mediterranean Crossings:
Refusal and Resistance in Uncertain Times

University of Milan, 24 – 26 June 2021

Thursday 24 June 2021

Friday 25 June 2021

Saturday 26 June 2021

From 17 to 27 June 2021

  • 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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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”)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

Closing plenary .pdf

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
#escapes2021
Call for papers
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