@article{1451081,
      recid = {1451081},
      author = {Queirolo Palmas, Luca, and Rahola, Federico,},
      title = {Underground Europe : along migrant routes /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451081},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16151-3},
}