(Un)ruly relationalities : Navigating mobility rules in the Italian asylum system

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Castellano, Viola:
(Un)ruly relationalities : Navigating mobility rules in the Italian asylum system.
In: Focaal. (2024) Heft 99 . - S. 68-81.
ISSN 1558-5263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2024.990106

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Abstract

In this article, I discuss the interplay between the formal and informal mobility rules regulating migration, asylum, and reception regimes in Italy. Engaging with the blurred grounds generated by mobility rules in practice, I argue that the (ir)regular functioning of bureaucracies of asylum and its gray zones created systemic injustice, while also accidentally fostering what I call a “relational mycelium” and support networks between the migrant and non-migrant population. The contribution dialogues with my former experience as reception worker and later as researcher with that of a group of Gambian asylum seekers to understand how subjectivities, goals, hopes, and desires were invested and reshaped through the asylum system, and by the relational networks developed in reception facilities.