Underground Europe : along migrant routes / Luca Queirolo Palmas, Federico Rahola.
Queirolo Palmas, Luca, author.; Rahola, Federico, author.
2022
JV7590
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Title Underground Europe : along migrant routes / Luca Queirolo Palmas, Federico Rahola.
Author Queirolo Palmas, Luca, author.
ISBN 9783031161513 (electronic bk.)
3031161513 (electronic bk.)
9783031161506
3031161505
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16151-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : color illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-16151-3 doi
Call Number JV7590
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.8094
Summary This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a kind of historical travelogue tracing the remnants of the 19th-century Underground Railroad in the US and Canada, including its legacies and unfulfilled heritage. It then shifts to the political present by ethnographically sketching a series of different border instances and situations, both external and within the EU space (Ventimiglia, Athens, Paris, Calais, Ceuta and Melilla, Patras, Pozzallo). Focusing on the violent harshening of local border regimes, this book nonetheless suggests a different picture, one conceived as the dynamic effect of both migrants autonomy and of the solidarity provided by local and international groups. Focusing on these specific and contested situations, it is possible to reverse the image of a main borderland into one of a space crisscrossed by many routes and passages. Reading those experiences through the historical lens of the US antebellum Underground Railroad, the book suggests the idea of an analogous "Underground Europe". Luca Queirolo Palmas is Professor of Sociology of Migration at Genoa University, Italy, and Co-editor of the journal Mondi Migranti. Federico Rahola is Professor of Sociology of Culture at Genoa University, Italy, and member of the editorial board of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa. They are both principal and senior investigators in the European Research Council project SOLROUTES and founders of the research collective Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale.
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- Chapter 4: Calais, Jungle-Tolone, Adoma Foyer -- A Few Days to the End -- From Leprosy to Plague? The Humanitarian Eviction -- Awrak. Papers and struggles -- Faggera! -- A CAO's Life -- References -- Chapter 5: Stalingrad/Porte de la Chapelle, Paris -- Paris Camping -- The Battle of Stalingrad -- Siege of the Humanitarian Center -- The Bubble -- References -- Chapter 6: Ventimiglia - Val Roja -- If the Shebab Rise Up in Revolt... -- The Spirit of the Rocks -- Stations and Operations -- Eufemia, Showing a Node of the Underground Railroad -- References -- Chapter 7: Calais/Paris
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Traveling Along the Underground Railroad, in Europe
Chapter 2: The Strange Book of Benjamin Drew
The Refugee
Abolition Democracy
Do You Remember the UGRR?
A Contended History...
...To Be Examined...
...And Continuously Rewritten
A Name...
...A Train
References
Chapter 3: Along the Routes
Stations
Florence, Northampton (MA)
Zooming in on a Map
Subterranean Continuities
Borderland Europe
The Prose of Counter-Migrations
Counter-Camps
The Leash and the Tear

Reclaiming the Landscape
Survival
The Hunt
The Attempt
Le Journal de Jungles
From a First-Floor Room on the Outskirts of Paris
References
Chapter 8: Ceuta, Melilla. Spain/Morocco
Ibra and the Guards in a Borderland
Behind the Fences: Morocco, Europe
Beyond the Fences: The Enclaves as a Spectacular Filter
Porous Borders and Contested Settlements
Minor Subversion
Under Hostile Cities
References
Chapter 9: In and Around Athens
Premise: Why the Shadow?
The True Dream of Diavata
In Lavrio
Outpost Patras
Epilogue: to Europe
References

Chapter 10: Pozzallo, Sicily
Memories/Resonances/Presences
Dying, Telling
Policing Landings
The Scafista: A Smuggler Savior
Stuck in the Camp
The Mirrors
References
Chapter 11: Omonia, Athens
At the Crossroads
Outlines for the Ethnography of a Square
Runaway: Ways Out
Epilogue: Inhabiting a Crossroads
References
Chapter 12: Passages (Diaries of a Male Conductor and a Female Conductor)
Diary of a Male Conductor
Diary of a Female Conductor
Chapter 13: Epilogue: Harriet and that Last Train to Europe
Escape
Comparison
Coalition

Abolition Democracy
References

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