Un travail invisible au vu de tout le monde ?
In contemporary Italian cities, volunteer asylum seekers help to clean up parks, streets and pavements, while at the same time being targeted by repressive policies aimed at the “undesirable” users of these same spaces. In this article, I examine this apparent paradox in order to understand how the...
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Genre, Sexualité et Société
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Genre, Sexualité et Société |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/9017 |
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| Summary: | In contemporary Italian cities, volunteer asylum seekers help to clean up parks, streets and pavements, while at the same time being targeted by repressive policies aimed at the “undesirable” users of these same spaces. In this article, I examine this apparent paradox in order to understand how the visibility of asylum-seeking volunteers is managed in Italian public spaces. The study of volunteer programmes in two northern Italian cities invites us to link the requalification of public spaces, the ways in which minority populations are put to work, and the processes of visibilisation-invisibilisation at work. By exploring the ways in which the visibility of volunteer sweepers and waste collectors is brought into play in the redesign of public spaces, it becomes possible to investigate how the assignment of these individuals to specific social categories is re-actualised in and through space. |
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| ISSN: | 2104-3736 |