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Il ricorso massiccio a campi (di detenzione, identificazione, accoglienza, ecc.) sembra essere la principale risposta istituzionale per governare il movimento di soggetti a vario titolo !fuori posto". L'articolo prende le mosse dalla proliferazione di centri di confinamento che investe la superficie striata del presente: esplora la continuitŕ tra manifestazioni all'apparenza opposte di campo, ne rilegge la diffusione globale in base al piů generale processo di deterritorializzazione dei confini del presente, e ne suggerisce una specifica produttivitŕ, come dispositivi che incombono su soggetti displaced ratificandone una costante internabilitŕ e deportabilitŕ. I campi, in questa prospettiva., emergono come snodi di un apparato di cattura che piů che definire un'esclusione radicale produce forme di inclusione differenziali all'interno di una superficie problematicamente unificata.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Traveling Along the Underground Railroad, in Europe -- Chapter 2: The Strange Book of Benjamin Drew -- The Refugee -- Abolition Democracy -- Do You Remember the UGRR? -- A Contended History… -- …To Be Examined… -- …And Continuously Rewritten -- A Name… -- …A Train -- References -- Chapter 3: Along the Routes -- Stations -- Florence, Northampton (MA) -- Zooming in on a Map -- Subterranean Continuities -- Borderland Europe -- The Prose of Counter-Migrations -- Counter-Camps -- The Leash and the Tear -- References -- Chapter 4: Calais, Jungle-Tolone, Adoma Foyer -- A Few Days to the End -- From Leprosy to Plague? The Humanitarian Eviction -- Awrak. Papers and struggles -- Faggera! -- A CAO's Life -- References -- Chapter 5: Stalingrad/Porte de la Chapelle, Paris -- Paris Camping -- The Battle of Stalingrad -- Siege of the Humanitarian Center -- The Bubble -- References -- Chapter 6: Ventimiglia - Val Roja -- If the Shebab Rise Up in Revolt… -- The Spirit of the Rocks -- Stations and Operations -- Eufemia, Showing a Node of the Underground Railroad -- References -- Chapter 7: Calais/Paris -- Reclaiming the Landscape -- Survival -- The Hunt -- The Attempt -- Le Journal de Jungles -- From a First-Floor Room on the Outskirts of Paris -- References -- Chapter 8: Ceuta, Melilla. Spain/Morocco -- Ibra and the Guards in a Borderland -- Behind the Fences: Morocco, Europe -- Beyond the Fences: The Enclaves as a Spectacular Filter -- Porous Borders and Contested Settlements -- Minor Subversion -- Under Hostile Cities -- References -- Chapter 9: In and Around Athens -- Premise: Why the Shadow? -- The True Dream of Diavata -- In Lavrio -- Outpost Patras -- Epilogue: to Europe -- References -- Chapter 10: Pozzallo, Sicily -- Memories/Resonances/Presences.

This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a kind of historical travelogue tracing the remnants of the 19th-century Underground Railroad in the US and Canada, including its legacies and unfulfilled heritage. It then shifts to the political present by ethnographically sketching a series of different border instances and situations, both external and within the EU space (Ventimiglia, Athens, Paris, Calais, Ceuta and Melilla, Patras, Pozzallo). Focusing on the violent harshening of local border regimes, this book nonetheless suggests a different picture, one conceived as the dynamic effect of both migrants autonomy and of the solidarity provided by local and international groups. Focusing on these specific and contested situations, it is possible to reverse the image of a main borderland into one of a space crisscrossed by many routes and passages. Reading those experiences through the historical lens of the US antebellum Underground Railroad, the book suggests the idea of an analogous "Underground Europe". Luca Queirolo Palmas is Professor of Sociology of Migration at Genoa University, Italy, and Co-editor of the journal Mondi Migranti. Federico Rahola is Professor of Sociology of Culture at Genoa University, Italy, and member of the editorial board of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa. They are both principal and senior investigators in the European Research Council project SOLROUTES and founders of the research collective Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale.