Book presentation: Vite ferme. Storie di migranti in attesa

As part of the PRIN 2022 project “The subjective well-being of immigrants and natives: Italy in the European context (WELL-MIG)“, Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento) will present the book Vite ferme. Storie di migranti in attesa (Il Mulino).

The meeting will be moderated by Angela Paparusso (CNR-IRPPS), with contributions from Stefano degli Uberti (CNR-IRPPS) and Aurora Massa (University of Perugia).

Based on patient ethnographic work at a reception center, the book tells the daily lives of migrants in their own words—of desires and frustrations, dreams and nightmares, presence and absence. Most are young men in their twenties, Black, African, asylum seekers, survivors of so-called “journeys of despair,” still waiting to know if they will be granted permission to live in the country where they have already spent years.

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