THE RIGHT TO RESIST AND THE HIERARCHISATION OF CITIZENSHIP. CHALLENGING HOW POLICY PRODUCES VULNERABILITY

The study explores how realities of migrants' and allies' collective organising, dissenting from the Italian institutional discourse on “migration”, produce knowledges that can offer alternative spaces to rethink the evolution of the law. It analyses how (im)mobility is problematised in Italian and European policy, arguing that the migrant person’s condition of socio-juridical vulnerability is produced by the law itself. Interrogating the contingency of the existing system and its inegalitarian and hierarchical structures, the research approaches the current order of things through the question: 'what if it was otherwise?'. Informed by the counternarratives of the migrant political subject, it attempts to create a space for criticism and reinterpretation of policy where the dogmatic paradigms of the sovereign state, the border, security, citizenship and the rights attached to it are approached as assumptions that can be contested and denaturalised. Arguing that migrants’ and allies’ realities promote a vision of substantial equality while seeking legal reform, the study reflects on the right of resistance in the context of the social conflict, with a view to explore the potential that this has for normative change and for the evolution of constitutional principles guarding the human person in their corporeality, as inhabitant of the earth.