Abandonment, Agency, Control: Migrants’ Camps in Ventimiglia

This article examines the governance mechanisms regulating migrants’ presence in Ventimiglia—an Italian city on the north-west border—and migrants’ agency, following the reintroduction of French border controls in 2015. The study looks at different kinds of camps: the formal one run by the Red Cross and the makeshift camps and settlements that sprang up over time. This work contributes to the academic debate on the interplay between migrants and border regimes by arguing two fundamental points. First, migration governance changed the nature of the makeshift settlements, pushing them from being spaces of autonomy, however precarious, to ones characterised more by exclusion and uncertainty. Second, the relationship between formal and informal spaces and migrants’ agency is ambiguous and changes over time. Using a diachronic perspective and without underestimating migrants’ agency, this paper denounces the inadequacy, fragility and violence of the border regime which migrants move into and within

Discorso, testo e narrazione nella rappresentazione del paesaggio. Il piano paesaggistico sardo

Following a theoretical post-structuralist approach, the paper analyzes the discursive construction of the landscape in the Sardinian legislation from 2006 when it has been approved the first Regional Landscape Plan. The article focuses on the quality of being “built” of the landscape rather than on its technical aspects. The Landscape is a device capable of catalyzing and carrying very different and conflictual discourses, rhetorics and representations as well as an extraordinary tool that shapes reality. The analysis of the discourse on landscape and its protection in legislation can address and problematize the role played by the landscape in relation to broader economic and political interests