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This panel will focus on the production of new human mobility narratives in cities. It will discuss how migration and displacement processes are narrated through migrant self-representation, popular discourse, humanitarian organizations, artists, and activists.
This panel is part of the Migration, Displacement and Citizenship in an Urban World virtual conference.
Presented by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, an initiative of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School.
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Gianluca Gatta is principal investigator (Archive of migrant memories research unit) for the Horizon 2020 project ITHACA. Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region (G.A. 101004539). He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” From 2018 to 2021 he worked as Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies of Kobe University (Japan). Has also taught and researched at the Universities of Naples “L’Orientale,” Calabria, and Naples “Federico II” and carried out fieldwork in Lampedusa, Rome, Naples and Kobe (Japan). He is also co-founder of the Archive of migrant memories (AMM) in Rome. His research interests are: body, power and production of illegality; third places and sociability; migrant voice, memory and subjectivity. Among his recent publications are: “Self-narration, Participatory Video and Migrant Memories: A (Re)making of the Italian Borders” (2019); “‘Half devil and half child’: an ethnographic perspective on the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa” (2018).
Giulia Sbaffi is a Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at New York University. Her dissertation examines the politicization and the cultural representations of sex labor in Italy through the collection of oral history interviews with sex workers. Her work has appeared on Public Seminar, Dinamopress, Zapruder: International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, and is forthcoming in The Italianist and Modern Italy. She is a member of the Archive of migrant memories and of the Italian Association of Oral History. She holds a M.Sc. in International History from the London School of Economics.
Valeria G. Castelli is an independent scholar whose research agenda focuses on how socially engaged documentary filmmakers deal with climate change and migration, as well as how they can catalyze social and narrative change. Valeria joined the Cities and Mobility Research Collaborative while at The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School as a 2018-20 Visiting Research Scholar. In 2017-18, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in migration and the humanities at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. Valeria’s work has appeared on Studies in Documentary Film, The Italianist, Gender/Sexuality/Italy, Public Seminar, Flash Art, and is forthcoming in Modern Italy. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from NYU, her M.Sc. in Analysis, Prevention and Combat of Organized Crime and Corruption from University of Pisa, and her M.A. in Italian Studies from University College London.
More than ever, the city is the locus of human mobility. The majority of the world’s migrants and forcibly displaced live in urban areas. Migration continues to be a fundamental process to the development and growth of cities. The role of cities in shaping mobility and that of migrants in shaping cities have been increasingly recognized in policy, academic, and media circles. Understanding this relationship and its implications for political and policy action requires us to gather new evidence from cities the world over and to possibly challenge past assumptions and theoretical concepts.
Key questions that emerge in this context are: What is the role of urban governance in addressing the challenges and in harnessing the opportunities that come with migration? How do cities negotiate contested views surrounding the topic of migration? How do new forms of mobility and technological advances affect membership and belonging? How do shifting narratives on migration and displacement shape political and media discourse?
This virtual conference is organized by the Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative, a consortium that aims to advance research on cities, mobility, and citizenship. The event will bring together leading scholars from across disciplines with the purpose of sharing recent research on the following themes: (a) Cities, Human Mobility and Digital Citizenship, (b) Cities and Environmental Mobility, (c) Mobility and Urban Governance, (d) Cities, Migration and Contentious Politics, (e) Refugees and Cities, (f) New Narratives on Cities and Mobility.
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