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SUMMARY:Research Seminar in Sociology of Law with Michelle von Dach
DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: tolibjon.mustafoev@soclaw.lu.se\n\n&nbsp\;Stuckedness 
 in the Lives of Migrants in RomeAn Ethnography of Everyday Navigation of a
 n Existential ConditionThis research examines the experiences of illegalis
 ation and precarity among migrants in Rome\, Italy. More precisely\, I stu
 died how migrants live an experience of "stuckedness\," a form of liminali
 ty that is circularly structural to Italy and Europe's border regimes. Stu
 ckedness is characterized by involuntary immobility (Carling 2002) both ph
 ysically but also existentially\, resulting in the impossibility of making
  long-term life plans. Rather than a temporary liminal stage or Sayad's (1
 999) "double absence\," stuckedness is a mode of governing migration that 
 slows people down\, gets them stuck in place\, time\, and life for extende
 d periods\, sometimes indefinitely and often cyclically.When I began my et
 hnographic fieldwork in 2022\, Italy’s political situation transitioned 
 with a new far-right government\, ushering in a more authoritarian anti-mi
 grant political climate that materialised with significant legislative cha
 nges. Through 1.5 years of engaged ethnography in Rome\, I gained access t
 o the field in NGOs and grassroots solidarity organizations. This activist
  positionalities allowed me to build rapport with interlocutors\, enabling
  in-depth participation in their social and intimate lives while attending
  to ethical implications.In a first part I delineate stuckedness’s polit
 ical-economic framework. Administrative bureaucracy creates loopholes wher
 e migrants become and re-become stuck\, extending through criminalisation 
 and externalization measures (Tuckett 2018\; Griffiths et al. 2013). Forms
  of precarity intersect when waiting for residence permits\, looking for a
  job with regular contract\, and searching for housing are all entangled a
 spects where one depends on the others. Importantly\, stuckedness is not s
 tatic immobility but marked by urgency and hypermobility as migrants try t
 o sort out their lives\, prompting tactics to manage hopes and frustration
 s (Fontanari 2021).The second half of my work explores domains of navigati
 ng stuckedness through forms of solidarity with grassroots associations an
 d among migrants themselves. In the latter case\, friendship networks emer
 ge from shared stuckedness often transcending nationality.Dr. Michelle von
  Dach is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in social and cultural ant
 hropology at the University of Zurich. Her doctoral research project “St
 uckedness in the Lives of Migrants in Rome. An Ethnography of Everyday Nav
 igation of an Existential Condition” is based on long-term fieldwork in 
 the Italian capital with migrant-led grassroots associations and civil soc
 iety organisations\, as well as with migrants that experienced irregolaris
 ation in Italy. With a focus on lived experiences of precarity\, uncertain
 ty and temporal liminality\, it introduces stuckedness as an analytical fr
 amework to understand a structural and cyclical migrant condition that sus
 pends migrants in place\, time and life\, often indefinitely.\n\nMer infor
 mation om händelsen: https://www.soclaw.lu.se/evenemang/research-seminar-
 sociology-law-michelle-von-dach
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LOCATION:Room M331\, 3rd floor\, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 (House M)\, Lund a
 nd online.
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