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Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

Novak, Paolo

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This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced and transformed in the rooms of ordinary buildings converted into shelters for asylum seekers.

Drawing on postcolonial and feminist approaches, the author explores the intersection of global and local histories, migrant stories and bordering processes, providing a timely lens for understanding migration today.

This is an invaluable contribution to debates on EU borders, including their logistical management, their coloniality and the autonomous force of migration that subverts them.

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Novak, P. (2025). Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803

Book Type Authored Book
Publication Date Jun 18, 2025
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2025
Publicly Available Date Jun 18, 2025
Publisher Bristol University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Series Title Global Migration and Social Change
ISBN 9781529234220
DOI https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803
Publisher URL https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of-refuge-and-the-postcoloniality-of-asylum-infrastructure
Related Public URLs https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.18323803

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