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The interaction between migration, access to housing, and depopulation provides a significant perspective on how Italian territories adapt to global dynamics and the role of public reception policies in addressing social urban inequalities. This paper proposes the case study of INTRA, a social cooperative located in Avellino, Campania, to examine the connection between Italian migrant integration policies and informal practices of access to houses. Focusing on the recognition of fundamental rights -enshrined in international legal frameworks and endorsed by nation-states- and proceeding through the lens of migration and housing, we recognise housing as a necessary tool to access the right to the city and thus to achieve minimum conditions of spatial and social justice. The analysis inquires a SAI project (Sistema di Accoglienza e Integrazione) in a network of small towns in the Campania region -partly- affected by the National Strategy of Inner Areas. Examining social inclusion policies in vulnerable areas, such as Avellino, illustrates the crucial role of local communities in implementing these policies by triggering bureaucratic barriers delaying the recognition of migrants’ spatial and social rights. At the stage of finding housing - as well as employment - the strategic role of mobilising personal skills and local networks within resident communities becomes evident, as these systems facilitate the integration of new inhabitants muddling through a complex formal inclusion system.
The informal practices of the proposed case study appear both as potential alliances between subjects with differential distribution of precarity and as a measure of the opportunities created by public policies. These alliances are built on the recognition of shared and contrasting vulnerabilities among subjectivities bringing different approaches and methodologies . Migration and housing access, therefore, are not only interconnected issues but also privileged arenas for observing and fostering practices of resistance and solidarity.
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Braidotti, Rosi (2017) Per una politica affermativa. Milano: Mimesis.
| Keywords | Migration, housing, practices, alliances, precarity |
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