Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy

Dotsey, Senyo; Lumley‐Sapanski, Audrey

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.103100

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“…Migrants are often neither citizens nor permanent residents (Dotsey, Lumley-Sapanski 2021). Except for migrants with full citizenship status who thus somewhat enjoy all formal rights and privileges accrued to native citizens, all other migrant groups are denizens, with these different groups having access only to some or no rights (Standing 2011).…”

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Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Bonizzoni

Dotsey

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has unequally impacted the lives of Italian subjects. The article uses evidence from forty-seven semi-structured interviews with various migrant groups to illuminate how temporalities embedded in Italy’s migration governance shape migrants’ precarious legal status and access to welfare. The authors show that whereas migrants with secure legal status or citizenship have not engaged significantly with Italian bureaucracies, they have no easy access to welfare as it is contingent on their employment and financial status. Migrants with precarious status have been the worst hit by the pandemic’s secondary effects across several fronts. These findings have implications for policy and future research.

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Section: Temporalities the State And Migration Governance: Insights From Italymentioning

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Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Bonizzoni

Dotsey

2021

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“…The literature on the politics of waiting has explored the relationship between waiting and power, emphasising how waiting can function as a governmental technology of control, in a Foucauldian sense (Andersson, 2014; Auyero, 2012, 2021; Dotsey and Lumley-Sapanski, 2021; Drangsland, 2020; Griffiths, 2014: 1996; Hage, 2009; Ramsay, 2017). Foucault (1982, 2009) sees power not as intrinsically tied to specific institutions, such as the state, but instead as manifesting through disparate governmental technologies – the often mundane methods and procedures that govern and regulate people’s behaviour (Rose and Miller, 2010).…”

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“…Waiting involves unequal power relations between those who wait and those who withhold the object or event that others are awaiting (Bourdieu, 1997 cited in Auyero, 2021; Peteet, 2018: 48; Ramsay, 2017: 521). It is often experienced as a period of marginalisation, uncertainty and liminality (Dotsey and Lumley-Sapanski, 2021: 3; Griffiths, 2014; Haas, 2017; Ramsay, 2017: 521). Waiting can create a sense of being unable to ‘move forward’ (Rotter, 2016: 86), and waiting time can be experienced as ‘sticky’, as those waiting often feel stuck (Griffiths, 2014: 1995).…”

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“…As Nicol, a black woman in her forties, said, ‘Whenever you go to the Victim’s Unit they say “you need to wait, it’s being processed. You’re on the list for reparations,” but it never comes.’ The delays the IDPs experienced in accessing reparations while they were struggling to get by highlight the marginality that often characterises experiences of waiting (Dotsey and Lumley-Sapanski, 2021; Griffiths, 2014; Haas, 2017). While the internally displaced suffered in the present, rights restitution measures were pushed into the future (Brun, 2016).…”

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Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

Iversen

2021

Time & Society

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This article contributes to the existing literature on the politics of waiting by discussing occupations led by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia. This literature has emphasised both the power that waiting frequently entails and, increasingly, the agency it can comprise. Yet less has been said about the potential role of waiting in generating resistance. Drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of power as intimately tied to resistance, this article explores how waiting can, in some instances, produce resistance. It uses fieldwork conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, between October 2017 and August 2018, including ethnographic observations and 120 interviews conducted with IDPs and state officials, to explore the centrality of waiting to IDPs’ experiences of displacement in Colombia. Contrary to those who would argue that such waiting encourages passivity, the article draws on a discussion of a two-year-long occupation by IDPs in Bogotá to argue that the long waiting periods facing the occupation’s participants prior to partaking in it were instrumental to facilitating the occupation. Waiting enabled the occupation in two major ways: by bringing together a group of people who would not have met had they not been forced to spend prolonged time together in close quarters and by constituting a key source of frustration motivating the occupation.

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“…In addition, a body of research explores how immigrant integration policies and the legal and institutional context and political 'climate', can have an impact on refugees' opportunities for socio-economic inclusion (or exclusion) and participation in local communities (see, e.g., Caponio & Jones-Correa, 2018;Esses et al, 2017;Hynie, 2008;Jetten & Esses, 2018;Phillimore, 2021). In addition to large-scale quantitative research (Cheung & Phillimore, 2017), various policy studies use qualitative (case study) methods that focus on the (local) policy context (e.g., Dotsey & Lumley-Sapanski, 2021;Easton-Calabria & Wood, 2001;Łukasiewicz et al, 2021). For instance, case study research amongst refugees and social welfare workers in New York suggests that a combination of increased policy decentralization, underfunding, and coordination challenges can result in diminishing the social and economic opportunities for refugees (Łukasiewicz et al, 2021).…”

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Refugee settlement and inclusive local communities: An ethnographic study in the dwindling town of Riace, Italy

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Since the 1990s and especially since the so-called Refugee Crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of people have applied for asylum in Europe. This rising number of asylum seekers has, among other things, led to more negative public attitudes toward refugees. Whereas governments and NGOs in some areas struggle with accommodating newcomers while taking public attitudes into account, other, mostly rural regions face the additional challenge of depopulation that leads to socio-economic difficulties for the people left behind. An innovative approach that addresses both these challenges was developed in the dwindling town of Riace, Italy. Local NGOs and the municipality have been hosting migrants and refugees for over twenty years and combine immigrant inclusion programs with the sustainable development of this small and depopulating community. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation examines and uncovers some critical policy aspects and local social dynamics that impacted newcomers' inclusion into the pioneering Riace community. The case of Riace can also serve as an example to other small European towns that (wish to) host refugees. Findings show that governments' financial, legal, and institutional support is crucial for the success of local immigrant inclusion practices. In addition, strong local (e.g., political) leadership that encourages people to be actively involved in community initiatives and, if possible, appeals to shared pro-social values to generate support for newcomers positively impacts refugees' inclusion. The findings further point to the advantages of small-scale refugee reception over large-scale and often segregated reception centers, as the setting of a small community can stimulate social dynamics that promote the inclusion of newcomers, for example, the formation of positive local relations and friendships. However, local migrant inclusion practices should simultaneously and equally address the socio-economic concerns and needs of receiving communities and refugees alike since this can result in a shared community perspective that benefits all its members. The findings of this dissertation also have methodological and theoretical implications for social science theories that aim to provide an understanding of community dynamics, particularly for social identity theory, intergroup contact theory, gossip theories, theories of multi-level governance, and more generally for the discussion of the role of theory in ethnographic research.

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Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy

Cited by 27 publications

References 35 publications

Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

Refugee settlement and inclusive local communities: An ethnographic study in the dwindling town of Riace, Italy

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