Policy Press

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure

By Paolo Novak

This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the European migration crisis and EU border management. It highlights key debates on the EU border, including their logistical management, the profit-driven industry they create and their colonial implications.

Paolo Novak is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS University of London.

Introduction

1. Buildings as Protagonists

2. The Place of Asylum Infrastructure

3. Provincializing Logistics

4. Destabilising Coloniality

5. Placing Autonomy

6. The Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure