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Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Abstract Geographical work on hotels has foregrounded their role as spaces of commercial hospitality, leisure, and increasingly as sites of emergency accommodation for a range of displaced groups. Developing such work, this paper critically examines the central role of hotels in accommodating and containing asylum seekers and refugees.
Jonathan Darling, Andrew Burridge
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The paper presents the work done during the two editions of the Summer School that took place in Lampedusa in 2017 and 2018, organized by the Italian Association of Sociology – Environment and Territory Section. The aim of the paper is twofold.
Adriano Cancellieri +7 more
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Vessels of Solidarity: The Material Politics of Civil Sea Rescue Ships
Abstract This article theorises ships as material carriers of transversal solidarity, based on the specific case of civil sea rescue vessels in the Mediterranean. My argument derives from eight months of fieldwork as an engaged activist‐ethnographer amongst civil sea rescue actors in Europe.
Antje Scharenberg
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A partire dagli anni ’90 del XX secolo, l’isola di Lampedusa, situata nel mar Mediterraneo e appartenente amministrativamente alla Sicilia, è interessata dal fenomeno degli sbarchi in massa di migranti che dall’Africa raggiungono l’isola a bordo di ...
Antonella Grossi
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The Intra‐EU Relocation Scheme of 2015: A Test Run for a Dublin Reform
ABSTRACT In 2015, the first obligatory scheme re‐distributing forced migrants from Italy and Greece to other EU member states was launched. The scheme anticipated the intra‐EU relocation of 160,000 people in 2 years. Ultimately, as few as 34,705 have actually been resettled.
Carolin Nieswandt
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Genomic data refine the species boundary of Papilio machaon and confirm the species status of Papilio saharae, with clarification of subspecies delineation of Mediterranean machaon and saharae. A heterogeneous level of genome‐wide heterozygosity between island and continental lineages warrants further taxonomic implications, and there is also evidence ...
Louis‐F. Cassar +6 more
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Turisti a Lampedusa. Note sul nesso tra mobilità e patrimonio nel Mediterraneo
Mobility studies can provide a fruitful approach to understand the relationship between migration and tourism in many Mediterranean contexts. Some islands that rely on tourism for their economic survival have in recent years become a place of transit and
Francesco Vietti
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Constraining the ship contribution to the aerosol of the central Mediterranean [PDF]
Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters lower than 10 µm, (PM10) aerosol samples were collected during summer 2013 within the framework of the Chemistry and Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment (ChArMEx) at two sites located north (Capo Granitola) and ...
S. Becagli +17 more
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Short Abstract 1940 saw the mass internment of so‐called ‘enemy aliens’ within Britain; this meant that innocent civilians were incarcerated in camps across the country, particularly within the tourist spaces of the Isle of Man. We interrogate how the holiday—as a geography of ideas, spaces, practices movements and sensibilities—became a frame of ...
Michael Holden, Peter Adey
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Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along the Coast of Israel: Abundance and Social Structure
ABSTRACT The dynamics of cetacean populations profoundly shape the survival and well‐being of their members, particularly in nutrient‐deficient and anthropogenically impacted regions like the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), one of the most extensively studied cetaceans, exhibits complex and diverse social ...
Yaly Mevorach +16 more
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