- via Olbia 6, 50123 Pisa, Italy
- +393477032625
Federico Oliveri
University of Pisa, Sciences for Peace Interdisciplinary Centre, Department Member
- Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology of Migration, Migration Studies, Sociology of Critique, and 31 moreSocial Movements, Citizenship, Global Citizenship, Active Citizenship, Democracy, Human Rights, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Migration, Race and Racism, Anti-Racism, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Hate Speech, Bioethics, Jurgen Habermas, Governance, Stereotipi, Immigrazione, Razzismo, Pregiudizi, Razzismo Linguistico, Immigration, Political Theory, Michel Foucault, Border Studies, Governmentality, Immigration Law, Citizenship studies, Neoliberalism, Class Struggle, and Political Philosophyedit
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Marxism, Herbert Marcuse, Revolutions, Jurgen Habermas, and 12 moreFrankfurt School, Habermas, Citizenship, Postmarxism, Jürgen Habermas, Filosofia del Diritto, Jurgen Habermas Marxism Frankfurt School Reason and Freedom, Storia della Filosofia, Habermas public sphere, Filosofia Política, theory of communicative action of J. Habermas, and Teoria Critica
Research Interests:
Migrant struggles in contemporary Italy offer a critical standpoint for understanding the uses of race in times of crisis. This paper analyses racialization first as a structural feature of neoliberalism in Italian society, and then as a... more
Migrant struggles in contemporary Italy offer a critical standpoint for understanding the uses of race in times of crisis. This paper analyses racialization first as a structural feature of neoliberalism in Italian society, and then as a crisis management strategy in the transition to late neoliberalism. Against this background, migrant struggles – for freedom of movement and the right to life, for equality at work, for the right to housing – will be interpreted as examples of counter-racialization. Through the development of counter-discourses on the crisis and austerity, in terms of causes, responsibilities and alternatives policies, and through practices of solidarity those struggles deconstruct the dominant frame of "ethnic competition for scarce resources" and try to reunite "those below" against "those above" across national and other racializing lines.
Research Interests:
SOS Rosarno was launched in Winter 2011 as a campaign by a group of small farmers, activists and migrants based in the Gioia Tauro Plain. It evolved in 2012 into a formal association, which supported in 2015 the creation of a social... more
SOS Rosarno was launched in Winter 2011 as a campaign by a group of small farmers, activists and migrants based in the Gioia Tauro Plain. It evolved in 2012 into a formal association, which supported in 2015 the creation of a social cooperative, called Mani e terra. The idea of the campaign, conceived after the tumult of African orange-pickers exploded in January 2010, was to sell organic citrus fruits through short supply chains, essentially based on Solidarity Purchase Groups, in order to allow producers to pay migrant workers according to the law, to receive a fair remuneration, to guarantee healthy and affordable food to consumers, to protect the integrity of the environment. This paper aims to reconstruct genealogy and evolution of SOS Rosarno, with a special focus on ideology, organization and practices. It will draw mainly on political documents produced by the association and in-depth interviews with its members. On one side, the paper shows how the new social alliances implemented by SOS Rosarno might challenge the dominant food supply chain, which impoverishes small producers and lets migrant farmworkers be exploited. On the other side, it clarifies how principles of food sovereignty, self-management and democratic economic planning have been developed by SOS Rosarno within a new peasant civilization, which offers a viable alternative to the current economic crisis.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
SOMMARIO: 1. Lo sfruttamento nell'ordinamento italiano: una ricostruzione sistematica e genealogica.-1.1. Nuove norme: la lenta emersione di un reato autonomo di sfruttamento lavorativo.-1.2. Aggiornamento di norme cadute in desuetudine:... more
SOMMARIO: 1. Lo sfruttamento nell'ordinamento italiano: una ricostruzione sistematica e genealogica.-1.1. Nuove norme: la lenta emersione di un reato autonomo di sfruttamento lavorativo.-1.2. Aggiornamento di norme cadute in desuetudine: il caso della schiavitù.-1.3. Prime con-clusioni.-2. Critica delle norme in materia di sfruttamento lavorativo (dei migranti).-2.1. Difetti di giustificazione.-2.2. Difetti di adegua-tezza.-2.3. Difetti di sistematicità.-2.4. Difetti di attuabilità.
Come è stato codificato lo sfruttamento lavorativo e, più precisa-mente, il suo divieto nell'ordinamento italiano? Per rispondere alla domanda propongo di svolgere una ricostruzione sistematica e genea-logica. Una simile strategia consente, da un lato, di analizzare l'insieme delle norme dedicate ai fenomeni di sfruttamento e, dall'altro, di studiare l'evoluzione e la stratificazione, la "logica" e il fine di tali norme. Sulla base di questa ricostruzione intendo sostenere due tesi. La prima tesi è che la nozione di sfruttamento ha fatto la sua esplicita apparizione e si è articolata nel diritto italiano contemporaneo in stretto rapporto con politiche dell'immigrazione declinate secondo un paradigma liberista e securitario, fondato sulla regolazione dei flussi in funzione del mercato del lavoro, sui controlli selettivi delle frontiere e sul contrasto delle migrazioni irregolari così prodotte. La seconda tesi è che questo nesso con l'immigrazione, oltre a suggerire l'immagine fuorviante che il lavoro sfruttato riguardi soprattutto se non esclusivamente i migranti, ha prodotto effetti problematici sul modo in cui i fenomeni di sfruttamento sono stati codificati.
Come è stato codificato lo sfruttamento lavorativo e, più precisa-mente, il suo divieto nell'ordinamento italiano? Per rispondere alla domanda propongo di svolgere una ricostruzione sistematica e genea-logica. Una simile strategia consente, da un lato, di analizzare l'insieme delle norme dedicate ai fenomeni di sfruttamento e, dall'altro, di studiare l'evoluzione e la stratificazione, la "logica" e il fine di tali norme. Sulla base di questa ricostruzione intendo sostenere due tesi. La prima tesi è che la nozione di sfruttamento ha fatto la sua esplicita apparizione e si è articolata nel diritto italiano contemporaneo in stretto rapporto con politiche dell'immigrazione declinate secondo un paradigma liberista e securitario, fondato sulla regolazione dei flussi in funzione del mercato del lavoro, sui controlli selettivi delle frontiere e sul contrasto delle migrazioni irregolari così prodotte. La seconda tesi è che questo nesso con l'immigrazione, oltre a suggerire l'immagine fuorviante che il lavoro sfruttato riguardi soprattutto se non esclusivamente i migranti, ha prodotto effetti problematici sul modo in cui i fenomeni di sfruttamento sono stati codificati.
Research Interests:
The paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing and classifying migrant struggles for freedom of movement occurred in the "crisis" of the Euro-Mediterranean border regime since 2015.
Research Interests: Social Movements, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Mobility/Mobilities, Human Rights, and 9 moreBorder Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Migration Studies, Sociology of Migration, Social and Political Philosophy, Borders and Frontiers, Protest and resistance, Freedom of movement, and Borders and Borderlands
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary, racialized and competitive model of society could become... more
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary, racialized and competitive model of society could become a goal shared by migrants and nationals alike.
Research Interests:
Presentation given on November 2, 2018, at the Conference “Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital" (University of Basque Country) This paper explores the role that social media... more
Presentation given on November 2, 2018, at the Conference “Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital" (University of Basque Country)
This paper explores the role that social media play in Italy in the popular understandings of the “refugee crisis”, including deaths at sea, Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, the governance of the asylum system, and the role of EU institutions. In order to shed some light on these points, I will focus on a short video posted on March 6, 2017 by a blogger, reaching so far about 2,5 million and 400,000 views on Facebook and Youtube respectively. Emphatically entitled “The truth about migrants”, the video argues that SAR operations by NGOs increase deaths in the Mediterranean and systematically feed the “business” of asylum seeker reception.
Arguments of this kind are not new. Since the Italian “Mare nostrum” operation, politicians at national and EU level have claimed that the presence of rescue boats close to the Libyan coast functioned as a ‘magnet’ and tempted smugglers to send larger numbers of migrants in increasingly unseaworthy vessels, thereby boosting the overall death toll. Despite data showing that SAR operations reduce mortality risks (or conversely, the absence of SAR operations leads to more deaths), and has little effect on the number of arrivals, this controversy periodically reappears Italian debates, usually in connection with arguments denouncing high costs of SAR and asylum system as a whole. Especially after the corruption scandal “Mafia Capitale”, involving cooperatives working in this sector, it became common to denigrate organizations in charge of reception as “making money on migrants”.
Against this background, I will try to explain how this video became viral by using "data" in order to confirm the most popular common places on the "refugee crisis", and mixing in a very sophisticated way an apparently evidence-based approach with a substantial conspiracy frame. More in details, I will: map the diffusion of the video, including through mainstream media, and the efforts of debunking it; apply social media categories (citizenship vs. mainstream journalism, echo chambers, emotion dynamics, etc.) to the video and its comments in order to understand its impact; reconstruct its main frames which distort the meaning of the “evidences” presented.
This paper explores the role that social media play in Italy in the popular understandings of the “refugee crisis”, including deaths at sea, Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, the governance of the asylum system, and the role of EU institutions. In order to shed some light on these points, I will focus on a short video posted on March 6, 2017 by a blogger, reaching so far about 2,5 million and 400,000 views on Facebook and Youtube respectively. Emphatically entitled “The truth about migrants”, the video argues that SAR operations by NGOs increase deaths in the Mediterranean and systematically feed the “business” of asylum seeker reception.
Arguments of this kind are not new. Since the Italian “Mare nostrum” operation, politicians at national and EU level have claimed that the presence of rescue boats close to the Libyan coast functioned as a ‘magnet’ and tempted smugglers to send larger numbers of migrants in increasingly unseaworthy vessels, thereby boosting the overall death toll. Despite data showing that SAR operations reduce mortality risks (or conversely, the absence of SAR operations leads to more deaths), and has little effect on the number of arrivals, this controversy periodically reappears Italian debates, usually in connection with arguments denouncing high costs of SAR and asylum system as a whole. Especially after the corruption scandal “Mafia Capitale”, involving cooperatives working in this sector, it became common to denigrate organizations in charge of reception as “making money on migrants”.
Against this background, I will try to explain how this video became viral by using "data" in order to confirm the most popular common places on the "refugee crisis", and mixing in a very sophisticated way an apparently evidence-based approach with a substantial conspiracy frame. More in details, I will: map the diffusion of the video, including through mainstream media, and the efforts of debunking it; apply social media categories (citizenship vs. mainstream journalism, echo chambers, emotion dynamics, etc.) to the video and its comments in order to understand its impact; reconstruct its main frames which distort the meaning of the “evidences” presented.
Research Interests:
Di fronte all’orrore della “morte collettiva” che forme sempre più brutali ci ripropongono in un era d’incertezza ed iniquità, studiosi di varie discipline e di diverse tradizioni, si confronteranno attorno ad un’idea di vita comune... more
Di fronte all’orrore della “morte collettiva” che forme sempre più brutali ci ripropongono in un era d’incertezza ed iniquità, studiosi di varie discipline e di diverse tradizioni, si confronteranno attorno ad un’idea di vita comune gioiosa, fraterna, conviviale. Se è vero come ha affermato Ernesto Balducci che: «L’avventura della storia del futuro per quanto riguarda l’Europa, è la scoperta dell’Altro», vogliamo incontrarci per riflettere sui possibili di una società futura quale comunità planetaria, in cui possano convivere tutte le diverse identità, etniche, culturali e religiose, nella consapevolezza comune della necessità storica che l’umanità debba farsi interprete e soggetto responsabile di questa transizione culturale, a partire da una rinnovata disponibilità all’incontro ed alla convivenza con l’Altro.
Ideato e diretto da: Pietro Piro
Intervengono: Aldo Tollini; Alfredo Jacopozzi; Claudia Melica; Daniele Steccanella; Domenico Cambareri; Federico Oliveri; Francescomaria Tedesco; Giovanni Nancini; Johnny Dotti; Marco Carniello; Marco Dotti; Maurizio Montanari; Stefano Sodaro; Verónica Roldán; Vincenzo Maria Corseri.
Sabato 7 ottobre 2017
Teatrino Parrocchiale
Chiesa Sant’Ambrogio di Villanova di Castenaso (BO)
Via Villanova, 13.
Mattina: ore 10:00-13.30
Pomeriggio: ore 16:00-19:00
Ideato e diretto da: Pietro Piro
Intervengono: Aldo Tollini; Alfredo Jacopozzi; Claudia Melica; Daniele Steccanella; Domenico Cambareri; Federico Oliveri; Francescomaria Tedesco; Giovanni Nancini; Johnny Dotti; Marco Carniello; Marco Dotti; Maurizio Montanari; Stefano Sodaro; Verónica Roldán; Vincenzo Maria Corseri.
Sabato 7 ottobre 2017
Teatrino Parrocchiale
Chiesa Sant’Ambrogio di Villanova di Castenaso (BO)
Via Villanova, 13.
Mattina: ore 10:00-13.30
Pomeriggio: ore 16:00-19:00
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Religion, Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Philosophy, and 42 morePolitical Philosophy, Multiculturalism, Philosophy Of Religion, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Marxism, Italian Studies, International Law, Religion and Politics, Critical Pedagogy, Conflict, War Studies, Yoga Meditation, Political Science, Paulo Freire, Voluntary Associations, Social Media, Ivan Illich, Mediation, Critical Discourse Analysis, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Multidisciplinary, Peace, Peacebuilding, Religious Studies, Pedagogía, Meditation, Teologia, Teología, Society, Antropología cultural, Antropología Social, Antropología, Cristianismo, Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil - ONG, Multiculturalidad, Pedagogia, Sociedad, Aldo Capitini, Mediaton, and Ernesto Balducci
Tavola rotonda in occasione della Giornata nazionale in memoria delle vittime dell'immigrazione. Saluti di Paolo Mancarella, Rettore dell'Università di Pisa. Relatori: Enza Pellecchia (Direttrice del Cisp), Eleonora Sirsi (Presidente... more
Tavola rotonda in occasione della Giornata nazionale in memoria delle vittime dell'immigrazione.
Saluti di Paolo Mancarella, Rettore dell'Università di Pisa.
Relatori: Enza Pellecchia (Direttrice del Cisp), Eleonora Sirsi (Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze per la Pace), Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Università di Palermo), Francesco Strazzari (Scuola Superiore S. Anna Pisa), Anna Ajello (Comunità di Sant'Egidio).
Saluti di Paolo Mancarella, Rettore dell'Università di Pisa.
Relatori: Enza Pellecchia (Direttrice del Cisp), Eleonora Sirsi (Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze per la Pace), Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Università di Palermo), Francesco Strazzari (Scuola Superiore S. Anna Pisa), Anna Ajello (Comunità di Sant'Egidio).
Research Interests:
The conference provides the chance for an interdisciplinary debate between scholars coming from the fields of social movement studies and political philosophy, who have been analysing the issue of migration and the episodes of collective... more
The conference provides the chance for an interdisciplinary debate between scholars coming from the fields of social movement studies and political philosophy, who have been analysing the issue of migration and the episodes of collective action related to it through different conceptual lenses.
In the last few years, an increasing number of migrants sought asylum in Europe. This phenomenon triggered a series of events and processes in different domains. Among them, various episodes of collective action took place in different countries: grassroots actions and initiatives in solidarity with refugees, self-organised protests lead by the same refugees at the borders and in camps, transnational campaigns demanding changes in European policies, and so on. The conference addresses these issues from different points of view and with the contribution of researchers and activists coming from different fields. In particular, this conference provides the chance for an interdisciplinary debate between scholars coming from the fields of social movement studies and political philosophy, who have been analysing the issue of migration and the episodes of collective action related to it through different conceptual lenses.
The morning session is dedicated to the discussion of the first results of the research project on collective action and refugees conducted by researchers at the Scuola Normale Superiore for the last year, under the direction of Donatella della Porta. The empirical focus is on the protest events related to the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015 all along the route followed by the migrants, from places of first arrival to places of passage and, then, places of destination. Through qualitative and quantitative data, researcher have mapped, within a cross-national comparative perspective, the wide set of actions and initiatives that are being created in solidarity with refugees that made the journey to the European Union to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. They focus on these cases from the perspective of social movement studies, aiming at bridging it with studies on migration and citizenship.
The afternoon session will be based on the outcomes of the DESEXIL project, directed by Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, favouring an interdisciplinary dialogue between social movement studies and political philosophy. The discussion will take place in two roundtables, with the participation of members of DESEXIL Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp, Federico Oliveri and Ilaria Possenti, of social movement scholars Nicole Doerr and Pierre Monforte, of political philosopher Sandro Mezzadra and of activist Daniela Padoan. The goal of this session is to discuss the main theoretical elements related to the episodes of collective action that are taking place along the migrant roots and the borders of Europe, focusing on the emergence of new subjectivities, practices, knowledge, worldviews and alternative policies across the borders.
In the last few years, an increasing number of migrants sought asylum in Europe. This phenomenon triggered a series of events and processes in different domains. Among them, various episodes of collective action took place in different countries: grassroots actions and initiatives in solidarity with refugees, self-organised protests lead by the same refugees at the borders and in camps, transnational campaigns demanding changes in European policies, and so on. The conference addresses these issues from different points of view and with the contribution of researchers and activists coming from different fields. In particular, this conference provides the chance for an interdisciplinary debate between scholars coming from the fields of social movement studies and political philosophy, who have been analysing the issue of migration and the episodes of collective action related to it through different conceptual lenses.
The morning session is dedicated to the discussion of the first results of the research project on collective action and refugees conducted by researchers at the Scuola Normale Superiore for the last year, under the direction of Donatella della Porta. The empirical focus is on the protest events related to the so-called ‘long summer of migration’ of 2015 all along the route followed by the migrants, from places of first arrival to places of passage and, then, places of destination. Through qualitative and quantitative data, researcher have mapped, within a cross-national comparative perspective, the wide set of actions and initiatives that are being created in solidarity with refugees that made the journey to the European Union to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. They focus on these cases from the perspective of social movement studies, aiming at bridging it with studies on migration and citizenship.
The afternoon session will be based on the outcomes of the DESEXIL project, directed by Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, favouring an interdisciplinary dialogue between social movement studies and political philosophy. The discussion will take place in two roundtables, with the participation of members of DESEXIL Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp, Federico Oliveri and Ilaria Possenti, of social movement scholars Nicole Doerr and Pierre Monforte, of political philosopher Sandro Mezzadra and of activist Daniela Padoan. The goal of this session is to discuss the main theoretical elements related to the episodes of collective action that are taking place along the migrant roots and the borders of Europe, focusing on the emergence of new subjectivities, practices, knowledge, worldviews and alternative policies across the borders.
Research Interests:
Tra maggio 2016 e novembre 2017 si è svolto il progetto di ricerca "Conflitti, spostamenti, memoria", in collaborazione tra il Centro Interdisciplinare "Scienze per la Pace", la Birmingham City University e la University of East London.... more
Tra maggio 2016 e novembre 2017 si è svolto il progetto di ricerca "Conflitti, spostamenti, memoria", in collaborazione tra il Centro Interdisciplinare "Scienze per la Pace", la Birmingham City University e la University of East London. Il progetto è stato finanziato dall'Art and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) tramite un bando innovazione sul tema "conflitti" nell'ambito del programma Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS). Il progetto ha raggiunto i tre obiettivi previsti: indagare il modo in cui in Italia e in Gran Bretagna la popolazione usa i media per informarsi e crearsi un'opinione sui conflitti in corso nei principali paesi di provenienza delle migrazioni forzate; ricostruire il modo in cui tale rappresentazione comune dei conflitti influenza, nei due paesi, la gestione della cosiddetta "crisi dei rifugiati" e l'atteggiamento dell'opinione pubblica, sia verso i richiedenti asilo che verso le istituzioni che ne regolano l'arrivo e l'accoglienza; fare emergere analisi e memorie dei conflitti elaborate dai richiedenti asilo e dai rifugiati stessi, mettendo questi punti di vista a confronto con la rappresentazione veicolata dai media e dal discorso pubblico dei due paesi di arrivo. In questo modo, il progetto ha contribuito a restituire una visione critica e complessa del nesso tra conflitti e migrazioni contemporanee, sulla cui base avanzare proposte alternative di diffusione di notizie, risoluzione dei conflitti e governo delle migrazioni, in grado ad esempio di prevenire l'ostilità verso i richiedenti asilo. Il progetto si è caratterizzato, tra le altre cose, per la scelta di raggiungere un pubblico più vasto, attraverso la produzione di uno spettacolo teatrale in cui le analisi del discorso pubblico e mediatico e le voci dei richiedenti asilo/rifugiati venissero messe a confronto sulla scena, attraverso la tecnica del cosiddetto "etno-dramma". Il 10 novembre è stato rappresentato a Bologna, presso il teatro del MET - Cantieri Meticci, lo spettacolo "Performing Memories. Reading performativo su conflitti, migrazioni e mass media". Il testo teatrale, realizzato dalla dott. Viviana Salvati e dal dott. Federico Oliveri, è stato ricavato dalle interviste dei richiedenti asilo ed è stato messo in scena accompagnato da immagini su conflitti e fenomeni migratori tratte dai media e dal web. Il reading è consistito in cinque monologhi, affidati ad altrettanti attori quattro dei quali con un proprio vissuto di migrazione forzata, dedicati all'Afghanistan, all'Iraq, all'Eritrea, alla condizione di vita nei centri di accoglienza e al funzionamento delle commissioni territoriali per l'asilo.