Wednesday, April 26, 2017<\/strong> Introductory Remarks by Ernest Ialongo<\/a> (Hostos Community College, CUNY; Chair, Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies) and Jose Moya (Barnard College)<\/strong><\/strong> Ernest Ialongo<\/a><\/a><\/strong> is Associate Professor of History at Hostos Community College in The City University of New York, and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and his Politics<\/em> with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2015) and co-editor of New Directions in Italian and Italian American History: Selected Essays from the Conference in Honor of Philip Cannistraro <\/em>(2013). Additionally, he has co-edited two special sections of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies<\/em>\u2014 \u201cReconsidering Futurism\u201d (September 2013), and \u201cMulti\/Interdisciplinary Investigations into Italy and World War I\u201d (March 2016)\u2014and has authored various articles dealing with Futurism, politics, and culture in Liberal and Fascist Italy. His most recent publication is the edited volume Il processo e l\u2019assoluzione di \u201cMafarka il Futurista\u201d<\/em> by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Luigi Capuana with Bel-Ami Edizioni in Rome, which is forthcoming.<\/p>\n Jos\u00e9 Moya<\/a> <\/strong>Professor of History, joined the Barnard faculty in 2005 after teaching at UCLA for 17 years. In addition to his teaching duties for Barnard’s Department of History, Moya is affiliated with the Human Rights Studies Program. He teaches courses in Latin American History, Latin American Civilization, and World Migration. He has written extensively on global migration, gender, and labor. Moya has received three Fulbright Fellowships, a Burkhardt Fellowship, and a Del Amo Fellowship. His research and scholarship have also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His book, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930<\/em>, received five awards. The journal Historical Methods<\/em> devoted a forum to its theoretical and methodological contributions to migration studies. Moya is currently editing Latin American Historiography<\/em> for Oxford University Press, as well as working on the socio-cultural history of anarchism in belle-\u00e9poque Buenos Aires and the Atlantic world. He is the Director of the Barnard Forum on Migration. Teresa Fiore<\/strong><\/a> is the Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies<\/a> at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA. The recipient of several fellowships (De Bosis, Rockefeller, and Fulbright), she was Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University, NYU, and Rutgers University. She is the editor of the 2006 issue of Quaderni del \u2018900, devoted to John Fante. Her numerous articles on migration to\/from Italy linked to 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature and cinema have been published in Italian, English and Spanish in both journals (as of recent Studi italiani <\/em>in Florence and El hilo de la fabula<\/em> in Argentina) and edited collections (Postcolonial Italy<\/em>). Her book Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies<\/em> is due out with Fordham University Press in May 2017. In the same year two articles on the new migration flows from Italy to the U.S. (edited volumes by Routledge and the University of Illinois Press), and one on immigrant detention centers in Italy (Journal of Italian Media and Cinema Studies<\/em>) are also due out. She coordinates a regular program of cultural events and educational initiatives on campus that focus on the circulation of people, ideas, products from\/to Italy. Nando Sigona<\/a><\/a><\/strong> is a social scientist with over fifteen years research and teaching experience in migration, refugee, citizenship and ethnic studies. He joined the School of Social Policy in February 2013 as a Birmingham Fellow. Dr. Sigona\u2019s work investigates the interplay between forms and modes of contemporary membership, governance, and the politics of belonging. This is achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of membership including, but not limited to, those of: refugees, Roma, undocumented migrant families, ethnic minorities, unaccompanied minors, children of undocumented migrant parents, dual citizens, \u2018failed\u2019 asylum seekers, and stateless people. Dr. Sigona is one of the founding editors of Migration Studies<\/em>, an international academic journal published by Oxford University Press. He is one of the editors of The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies<\/a> <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2014) and author (with Alice Bloch and Roger Zetter) of Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Undocumented Migrants <\/em>(Pluto Press, 2014). Giuseppe Campesi<\/a><\/a><\/strong> received his B.A. in Law at the University of Bologna, Italy (2003); an MA in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2005); and a Ph.D. in Legal Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Milan (2008). From 2008 to 2010 he worked as Research Fellow in the Department of Theory and History of Law at the University of Florence. During the academic year 2010-11 he was Jean Monnet Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. In 2011 he joined the Department of Political Sciences at the \u201cAldo Moro\u201d University in Bari, Italy where he\u2019s currently Senior Lecturer and Aggregate Professor (tenured) in Law and Society. His research cuts across different disciplines with a main focus on contemporary social theory, critical legal studies, critical security studies, border controls and migration policies. Enrica Rigo<\/a><\/a><\/strong> is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tre where she holds the chair in Philosophy of Law and coordinates a legal clinic program on migration and asylum. She earned her Ph.D. in \u201cPhilosophy of Law, Social and Political Theory\u201d at the University of Naples and was formerly Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her research interests include critical legal theory, theories of citizenship and border studies. She is the author of numerous articles on migration, borders, and justice, including a monograph on European citizenship in the enlargement context, Europa di Confine. Trasformazioni della cittadinanza nell\u2019Unione Allargata<\/em> (Meltemi, 2007).<\/p>\n Panel of Experts at Columbia University Wednesday, April 26, 2017 (Faculty House, Presidential Room 1) NYC 6-8pm For directions to Faculty House, please click here See media coverage for this event This panel is the first of a two-days event linked to the project Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean Migrant Crisis. 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\n(Faculty House<\/a>, Presidential Room 1) NYC 6-8pm
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\nThis panel is the first of a two-days event linked to the project Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean Migrant Crisis<\/strong><\/a>.
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\nTeresa Fiore<\/a> (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Montclair State University, USA): Italy as a Laboratory of Migration<\/em>: A Cultural Perspective on Inbound and Outbound Flows
\n<\/em><\/em>Nando Sigona<\/a> (University of Birmingham, UK): Leaving the \u2018Crisis’ Behind: Sea Arrivals, Reception Regime and the Normalisation of the Emergency in Italy
\n<\/em><\/em>Giuseppe Campesi<\/a> (Universit\u00e0 di Bari, Italy): Crisis, Migration and the Re-bordering of the European Space
\n<\/em><\/em>Enrica Rigo<\/a> (Universit\u00e0 degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy): Beyond the Spectacle of Borders: Governing Public Order and Negotiating Rights in Times of Crisis<\/em><\/li>\n
\nThe Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies hosts monthly talks by scholars of modern Italy. Additionally, the seminar organizes panel discussions aimed at the general public to focus on an issue of contemporary relevance. In the past few years such events have corresponded to major art exhibitions in New York City featuring modern Italian artists or movements. However, for this upcoming panel, the plight of the migrants in Europe, and most especially in Italy, demanded our attention. Such a focus becomes ever more necessary because of the increasingly polarizing rhetoric dealing with immigration both in Europe and here in America.<\/p>\n
\n“Italy as a Laboratory of Migration: A Cultural Perspective on Inbound and Outbound Flows” – Teresa Fiore<\/a> (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Montclair State University, USA)<\/strong>
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\nThis presentation will illustrate the general data on immigration to Italy (number of arrivals, documented and undocumented immigrants, asylum applicants and approvals, detention centers) in order to provide a working background for the other panelists\u2019 talks. At the same time, it will enrich the quantification of the immigration phenomenon by accompanying it with human stories. Through these stories, recounted in attentive news reports, scholarly projects and cultural texts by and about immigrants in Italy, the overall Euro-Mediterranean immigrant scenario reveals a high level of complexity and diversity beyond the predictable images and commentaries often proposed by the media. In works such as Andrea Segre\u2019s film project Come il peso dell\u2019acqua <\/em>about political refugees and exploited economic migrants, Stefano Liberti\u2019s video series Welcome to Italy <\/em>on detention centers, and the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino and Erri De Luca\u2019s musical and poetry project Solo Andata <\/em>about the Mediterranean crossings, immigrants go from anonymous faces on the screen to protagonists of fascinating and chilling experiences that shed light on the countries of departure as much as those of arrival. In subtle and incisive ways these experiences also hint at Italy\u2019s long history of emigration and the current phenomenon of exodus of its youth, a unique condition compared to other European countries, also taking into account the fact that immigration into Italy is not mainly post-colonial as is the case for England and France. The presentation thus posits Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility; it also identifies traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present.
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\n“Leaving the \u2018Crisis’ Behind: Sea Arrivals, Reception Regime and the Normalisation of the Emergency in Italy” – Nando Sigona<\/a> (University of Birmingham, UK)<\/strong>
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\nDrawing from 205 interviews with refugees and migrants arriving in Italy via the Mediterranean in 2015 and 50 interviews with stakeholders, this paper explores how changes occurred in the governance of irregular sea crossings in Italy resulting from the EU\u2019s refugee crisis.<\/p>\n
\n“Crisis, Migration and the Re-bordering of the European Space” – Giuseppe Campesi<\/a> (Universit\u00e0 di Bari, Italy)<\/strong>
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\nThe presentation will focus on the impact the EU Agenda on Migration is having on border control practices in frontline Member States, showing how its main aim was to re-border the EU by strengthening the powers for the surveillance and detention of incoming migrants and asylum seekers. I will explore the Italian case, analyzing how the so-called hotspot approach has been concretely implemented and the influence it is having in pushing the Italian reception system from a policy model driven, albeit with a certain degree of ambiguity, by humanitarian orientations, to a model where security and border control priorities prevail. The discussion of the Italian case will allow me to draw some conclusions on the broader political project envisaged by the EU Commission\u2019s political steps in response of the refugee crisis. A project which is clearly pointing at the evolution of the concept of Integrated Border Management (IBM), which was the policy framework for the management of common external borders during the previous decade, into a truly post-national border control strategy. While this project may be seen as a response to the steps taken by many Member States that by reactivating controls at their internal borders were casting doubts on the future of the EU free-passport area, I propose not to read it under the vexed dichotomy between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism. The development of a post-national border control strategy is part of a design for the hegemonic reshaping of the EU space, where frontline Member States will be more and more forced to play a role as guardians of a buffer frontier zone protecting the prosperous heart of Europe.<\/p>\n
\n“Beyond the Spectacle of Borders: Governing Public Order and Negotiating Rights in Times of Crisi” – Enrica Rigo <\/a>(Universit\u00e0 degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy)<\/strong>
\nDuring recent years multiple crises have affected the government of migration in Italy: from the 2008 economic crisis \u2013 which led to a reduction in work visas and the harshening of security measures targeted at migrants \u2013 to the so-called \u2018North African Emergency\u2019 \u2013 which followed in the wake of the Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war \u2013 to the current \u2018refugee crisis\u2019. Understandably, public discourse has focused on the humanitarian emergencies linked to the arrivals of refugees. Far less attention has been dedicated to the consequences of these crises on the daily management of public order and on migrants\u2019 strategies to adapt to the changing circumstances. This presentation will address the main events that have had an impact upon public opinion in order to trace chronologically the rhetoric of migration crisis and, at the same time, will identify the less evident aspects that have affected migrants\u2019 daily lives. The presentation will draw on research conducted over the last few years around the transformation of migrant labor, the feminization of migration and migrants\u2019 access to justice.<\/p>\n\n