Mobility, Social Reproduction and Exploitation: A Critical Legal Perspective on the Tension between Capitalism and Freedom of Movement

A wide range of literature has placed social reproduction at the centre of migration processes. Although diversified, this body of literature has rarely focused on exploring, in depth, the entanglements between mobility and reproduction. In this article, I argue that, from a critical legal perspective, such entanglements are crucial for developing a feminist view on borders and migration that goes beyond the analysis of the female component of migration processes.  On the one side, such a focus reveals the extent to which regimes of mobility control are structured around and, at the same time, reproduce a conceptual separation between production and reproduction. On the other side, the challenge that the reproduction and maintenance of life poses to capitalism highlights what is at stake in the tension between border regimes and the claim for freedom of movement. Seen from both these competing perspectives, human mobility appears constitutive (rather than functional) for contemporary social reproduction processes, as much as circulation is for production

La straniera. Mobilità, confini e riproduzione sociale oltre lo straniero di Simmel

By proposing a feminist reading of the simmelian stranger, the article calls into question the gender neutrality of migration studies and interrogates the sexual nature of human mobility and its regimes of containment and segregation. The thesis presented upholds that we need to rethink ‘the stranger’ as a female stranger, in order to shed light on how the division between productive and reproductive space —i. e., the social and political construction of gender— conditions the governance of migration. Rather than the usual emphasis on migrant women in the supply chain of reproductive labour, the article places the notion of social reproduction at the centre of the argument with the aim to investigate, from a critical legal approach, the crucial role that social reproduction plays in mobility control

Per una ragione artificiale. In dialogo con Lorenzo d'Avack su Costituzione, ordine giuridico e biodiritto

La ricchezza dei saggi e delle testimonianze raccolte in questo volume documenta il contributo fondamentale che l’opera di Lorenzo d’Avack ha apportato agli studi sui temi della Costituzione, della bioetica e del biodiritto. Partecipano alla raccolta di scritti molte delle voci che si sono confrontate con d’Avack durante la sua lunga, e tuttora in corso, esperienza al Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica. Non solo filosofi del diritto, giuristi provenienti da diverse discipline, bioeticisti e umanisti con diverse sensibilità, ma anche medici, clinici e esperti di neuroscienze. Il volume offre, pertanto, un compendio dei temi e dei problemi che la bioetica e il biodiritto hanno affrontato negli ultimi decenni in una prospettiva interdisciplinare. Apre il volume un’intervista a Lorenzo d’Avack, seguita dalle testimonianze e dai saggi di Riccardo Di Segni, Mariapia Garavaglia, Salvatore Amato, Monica Toraldo, Laura Palazzani, Alfredo D’Attore, Lucetta Scaraffia, Luisella Battaglia, Mariella Gensabella Furnari, Maurizio Mori, Stefano Canestrari, Antonio Da Re, Assunta Morresi, Alessandro Nanni Costa, Stefano Semplici, Carlo Caltagirone, Silvio Garattini, Lucio Romano, Mario De Curtis, Gianpaolo Donzelli, Grazia Zuffa, Carlo Casonato, Carlo Maria Petrini e Carlo Botrugno.The richness of this edited collection reflects the depth of Lorenzo d’Avack’s contribution to constitutional studies, bioethics and biolaw. Many of the authors of this volume have been in close dialogue with d’Avack during his long and ongoing involvement with the Italian National Committee for Bioethics. The volume includes essays by legal philosophers, scholars of law and bioethics as well as doctors, physicians and neuroscience experts. As such, the edited collection offers an interdisciplinary perspective on key themes and problems that have concerned bioethics and biolaw over recent decades. The volume opens with an interview with Lorenzo d’Avack and is followed by contributions from Riccardo Di Segni, Mariapia Garavaglia, Salvatore Amato, Monica Toraldo, Laura Palazzani, Alfredo D’Attore, Lucetta Scaraffia, Luisella Battaglia, Mariella Gensabella Furnari, Maurizio Mori, Stefano Canestrari, Antonio Da Re, Assunta Morresi, Alessandro Nanni Costa, Stefano Semplici, Carlo Caltagirone, Silvio Garattini, Lucio Romano, Mario De Curtis, Gianpaolo Donzelli, Grazia Zuffa, Carlo Casonato, Carlo Maria Petrini and Carlo Botrugno

Re-gendering the Border: Chronicles of Women’s Resistance and Unexpected Alliances from the Mediterranean Border

During the summer of 2015, 69 Nigerian migrant women intercepted at sea were transferred from Sicily to the detention centre of Rome-Ponte Galeria in view of being deported from Rome-Fiumicino airport. A media campaign denounced the fact that the women were potential victims of trafficking, but only a few were admitted for protection status by Italian authorities while, on 17 September, twenty were forcefully repatriated to Lagos. By drawing on this case, the article will critically discuss the gendering process recently undergone by the Italian southern border as well as practices of political subjectivity which deconstruct discursive and normative criteria that hierarchize instances of free movement

Struggles for Freedom within and against the Legal Order at the Borders of Europe

The rescue of migrants at sea has recently been tackled by authoritative acts that have led to an increasing criminalization of solidarity between and toward migrants. By drawing on the case of the Mediterranea platform of activists, this article argues that the notion of arbitrariness defined as a departure from the rule of law fails to capture the ongoing conflict at the borders of Europe. By highlighting its ambivalent meaning, arbitrariness appears instead either as an authoritative attempt to impose a different order on society or as a means to contrast unorderable acts of resistance to border regimes. The article advocates the importance of reframing the demand for open borders as a call for freedom of those who challenge the pragmatic order of borders

La vulnerabilità nella pratica del diritto d’asilo: una categoria di genere?

The article discusses the notion of vulnerability implemented in asylum cases regarding gender violence on trafficked women. The findings of a case study of 70 administrative and judicial decisions are analysed and compared with notions of vulnerability developed by the Court of Cassation and the European Court of Human Rights. The analysis illustrates the different role that gender plays in the decision when considered, on the one hand, as a subjective ascription or, on the other, as a hermeneutical category in light of which the whole legal framework should be interpreted