Debordering Europe

Livio Amigoni is a PhD Candidate in the Social Sciences at the University Genoa, Italy. Silvia Aru is an Assistant Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.Ivan Bonnin is a PhD Candidate in European Studies at Roma Tre University, Italy.  Gabriele Proglio is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy. Cecilia Vergnano is Marie Slodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• Introduction.- Part I: Historical reading of Ventimiglia as a border town.- Chapter 2: The path of hope.  Illegal border crossing in the last century (1861-2019),  Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 3: The Franco-Italian border at Menton-Ventimiglia: a perennial place of conflict, brotherhood, and media coverage, Sandro Rinauro.- Chapter 4: The Maritime Alps migration chains: from traditional transalpine mobility to international migration,  Marina Marengo.- Part II: Borderland infrastructures.- Chapter 5: The infrastructure environment of the Ventimiglia borderland and underground border crossings, Ivan Bonnin.- Chapter 6: The moral economy of a transit camp. Life and control on the Italian-French border, Marta Menghi.- Chapter 7: The irregular border. Theory and praxis the border of Ventimiglia in the Schengen age, Giacomo Donadio.- Part III: Social actors on the ground.- Chapter 8: Smugglers and smuggled migrants: amid Sudanese passeurs in the border regime of Ventimiglia, Livio Amigoni, Chiara Molinero, Cecilia Vergnano.- Chapter 9: Migrants at stake. Agency and autonomy in Ventimiglia, Silvia Aru.- Chapter 10: Opportunities and obstacles in (un)politicizing a European border, Daniela Trucco.- Chapter 11: Crimes of solidarity. The battlefield of the Roja Valley, Luca Giliberti.- Chapter 12: On the French-Italian border. Guards’ visions in the landscape, Francesco Migliaccio.