1st Edition
Lives in Transit An Ethnographic Study of Refugees’ Subjectivity across European Borders
Introduction
Part I: The Historical Context: Asylum in Europe
1. Asylum on the Move. The Humanitarian-Security Border Regime in Europe
2. A Turbulent Sea. From the Arab Spring to the Berliner Herbst
Part II: The Ethnographic Journey: Into the Refugeness
3. Temporalities. Fragmented Mobility and Disrupted Time in the Everyday Life of Refugees
4. Interstices. Living Between and Beyond the Borders
5. Becoming Subjectivity in Transit. Feelings, Emotions, and Everyday Practices
Conclusion. Which Europe, for Whom?
Epilogue
References
Biography
Elena Fontanari is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy. She has a PhD in Sociology, Doctor Europaeus, from the University of Milan and Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin. She is part of the editorial board of the journal Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa (edited by Il Mulino, Bologna), and she is a co-founder of the CRC (Coordinated Research Centre) Escapes, a critical research network about forced migration, at the University of Milan. She is an activist in support of refugees and migrants and has worked on several projects with non-governmental organizations in both Italy and Germany. She regularly gives talks about the topic of refugees and Europe’s borders in universities, public lectures, and lectures that are a part of professional training courses.
