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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6083
dc.contributor.author	Marabello Selenia
dc.contributor.author	Parisi Maria Luisa
dc.title	Migrating Alone, Living Together. Reframing Unaccompanied Minors in Italy across Local Bologna Policies and Citizenship
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper discusses reception practices for unaccompanied minors in Italy by juxtaposing legislative changes, ideas about and social representations of the condition of minors, contingent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the refugee crisis along the Euro-Mediterranean border. This crisis is particularly key for interpreting migratory processes involving unaccompanied foreign minors because it has framed migrant minors in a morally ambivalent and polysemous way. Of the many formulas and practices involved in minor migrant reception, the analysis focuses on a shared housing project in Bologna called Vesta in which young migrants about to reach the age of majority, a moment that marks a sudden change in their lives, are temporarily placed in Italian citizens’ and families’ homes. Through an anthropological lens, we examine how welfare policies involving citizens and spaces of social relations and cohabitation create commonly overlooked spaces in which intersecting individual and collective claims condition the pathways of young migrants, steering them in the arrival society, and give rise to diverse ideas and imaginaries about family ties.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-10-27
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-18
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-03-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-533-9/migrating-alone-living-together/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/006
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-533-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-532-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	COVID-19
dc.subject	Domestic space as a part of migrant reception syst
dc.subject	Domestic space as a part of migrant reception syst
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Italy
dc.subject	Unaccompanied migrants
dc.subject	Unaccompanied migrants

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Migrating Alone, Living Together

Reframing Unaccompanied Minors in Italy across Local Bologna Policies and Citizenship

Selenia Marabello Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna; Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia

Maria Luisa Parisi CIDAS, Cooperativa Inserimento Disabili Assistenza Solidarietà

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This paper discusses reception practices for unaccompanied minors in Italy by juxtaposing legislative changes, ideas about and social representations of the condition of minors, contingent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the refugee crisis along the Euro-Mediterranean border. This crisis is particularly key for interpreting migratory processes involving unaccompanied foreign minors because it has framed migrant minors in a morally ambivalent and polysemous way. Of the many formulas and practices involved in minor migrant reception, the analysis focuses on a shared housing project in Bologna called Vesta in which young migrants about to reach the age of majority, a moment that marks a sudden change in their lives, are temporarily placed in Italian citizens’ and families’ homes. Through an anthropological lens, we examine how welfare policies involving citizens and spaces of social relations and cohabitation create commonly overlooked spaces in which intersecting individual and collective claims condition the pathways of young migrants, steering them in the arrival society, and give rise to diverse ideas and imaginaries about family ties.

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Oct. 27, 2021

Accepted

June 18, 2021

Submitted

March 31, 2021

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978-88-6969-533-9

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978-88-6969-532-2

Keywords: Unaccompanied migrants • Domestic space as a part of migrant reception syst • Italy • COVID-19

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/006

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