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This article presents an innovative research experience based on a method (Collective Analysis of Practices) used in Venezuela among sociologists engaged in social movements. This method travelled to Padova (thanks to a refugee-researcher) and our proposal is to explore how to contrast anti-migrant racism at the urban level learning from solidarity practices shared through a collective reflexive work. Moreover, we propose to rethink (internal) border struggles in relation to the emergence of political antiracism in Italy. The article starts introducing our theoretical background, connecting migration and urban studies for a renewed focus on the legacies of colonialism and on the relevance of race and (anti)racism. Then we reconstruct our empirical context, showing continuities and changes in Padova’s antiracist political activism. After a presentation of the different phases of the method, we discuss the most interesting issues that emerged: the dilemmas of solidarity facing welfare racism; the limits and potentialities of antiracist practices according to different positionalities; and the need to further coordinate antiracist everyday practices at the urban level, going beyond reactive convergences tied to racist border violence and building together long-term strategies of socio-political change. In the last section of the article, we show the importance of making antiracist places in cities to claim the right to stay together and working for a common liberation struggle which goes beyond the migrants-natives divide.

This paper introduces the context of European mobilizations for and against refugees and how participatory cinema has become a way of expressing political solidarity with refugees in Italy. We present and discuss ten years of the artistic work of ZaLab and Archivio Memorie Migranti and focus on two film projects of 4CaniperStrada. Central to the production of participatory cinema in Italy is challenging the mainstream narrative of migration through the proactive involvement of asylum seekers, with their political subjectivity, by using a self-narrative method.

This paper reflects upon a specific, but rarely used, methodological tool we term back-talk focus group, which consists in drawing together research participants to discuss research findings. After three years of research on Muslim youth in Italy we will show the importance of creating space for a further research stage called \"back-talk\". The paper will argue that focus group is a very useful tool to make a powerful back-talk for three main reasons. First it stimulates the reflexivity of the researcher by allowing to generate new data. Second, it empowers participants by allowing them greater role in the research process and more reflexive practices in civil society. Third, it ensures responsible dissemination of potentially sensitive issues to a potentially diverse and highly politicised audience. Following a general discussion of how back-talk focus group could contribute to create a research culture more reflexive and more social responsible, the paper will review the empirical case of a back-talk focus group of young Italian Muslims and will show their dissents, agreements and suggestions emerged through the discussion of the research results. We will conclude by reflecting on the main strengths of back-talk focus group and we will also note some limitations of this \"missing link\" in qualitative migration research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs060352

The contributions aim at discussing the limits and the potential of activism for migrants’ rights at the urban level, analyzing discourses and practices of resistance and disobedience in relation to borders and racialized social orders. We follow the research line of Keskinen, Alemanji and Seikkula (2024), adopting a critical lens of decolonial studies and critical border studies to put in relation antiracism and migrant (solidarity) activism. Our proposal is to discuss the often contradictory processes taking place in different Italian cities.

The contributions aim at discussing the limits and the potential of activism for migrants’ rights at the urban level, analyzing discourses and practices of resistance and disobedience in relation to borders and racialized social orders. We follow the research line of Keskinen, Alemanji and Seikkula (2024), adopting a critical lens of decolonial studies and critical border studies to put in relation antiracism and migrant (solidarity) activism. Our proposal is to discuss the often contradictory processes taking place in different Italian cities.

The acceleration and diversification of the movement across borders of millions of people has recently implied a heightened relevance of topics such as ethnicity, race and migration in the social sciences. Nevertheless, being migration a highly interdisciplinary and complex issue, the diverse national academic traditions and methodologies of investigation currently existing have up to now hindered the development of a clear framework for the understanding of the phenomenon. Through this special issue HERMES (European Researchers in Migration and Ethnic Studies) attempts to provide a dedicated arena offering European researchers the opportunity to disseminate the results of their investigations in the field of migration and, in particular, of reflecting on fieldwork and/or methodological issues. The eight articles presented here all contribute – in their own ways – to the provision of a reflexive ground for the understanding of methodological choices and options and, hopefully, to the creation of a shared understanding of such issues across disciplines and research traditions.

The acceleration and diversification of the movement across borders of millions of people has recently implied a heightened relevance of topics such as ethnicity, race and migration in the social sciences. Nevertheless, being migration a highly interdisciplinary and complex issue, the diverse national academic traditions and methodologies of investigation currently existing have up to now hindered the development of a clear framework for the understanding of the phenomenon. Through this special issue HERMES (European Researchers in Migration and Ethnic Studies) attempts to provide a dedicated arena offering European researchers the opportunity to disseminate the results of their investigations in the field of migration and, in particular, of reflecting on fieldwork and/or methodological issues. The eight articles presented here all contribute – in their own ways – to the provision of a reflexive ground for the understanding of methodological choices and options and, hopefully, to the creation of a shared understanding of such issues across disciplines and research traditions.