Migration Landing Spaces - Processes and Infrastructures in Italy

Combining an ethnographic gaze with insights from urban planning, architecture, geography, social sciences, and migration studies, this book invites us to look closer at the interactions between people, practices, and places as migrants land in Europe.

List of contents

Preface: The Pilot Book 1: Introduction 2: Landing as an open-ended process 3: Palermo as crossroads in the central Mediterranean route 4: Urban spaces as landing infrastructures 5: Working perspectives

About the author

Martina Bovo is an architect and postdoc researcher at KU Leuven, with a PhD in Urban Planning, Design and Policy obtained at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Her research focuses on the territorial dimension of migratory arrival processes, and broadly on urban and welfare policies and ethnographic approaches to urban analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Martina Bovo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032578682
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3257868-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Law, Landscape art & architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Communication Studies, Regional Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, International institutions, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban communities, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Landscape architecture and design, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Urban communities / city life, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations