Federico Oliveri

Federico Oliveri is Research Associate in the Sciences for Peace Interdisciplinary Centre at University of Pisa, where he currently coordinates the editorial board of the online journal ScienzaePace. He worked as a research advisor at the Council of Europe, editing several volumes of Trends in social cohesion and writing, Migrants and their descendants. Guide to policies for the well-being of all in pluralist societies.

Migrants as activist citizens in Italy

In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary, racialized and competitive model of society could become a goal shared by migrants and nationals alike.

By Federico Oliveri

/ 8 Nov 2012