By bringing together scholarship on affective (non)citizenship and critical geographies of public space, in this article we examine how the exposure refugees’ intimate lives, private relationalities personal histories mediate their conditional access to “the public”. Drawing long-term ethnographic engagement field asylum Italy, show seekers are confronted with changing patterns obligation depen...

Traditionally, the port management model has been characterized by the presence of a centralized public agent in charge of the long run planning and provision of most of the port services. Nowadays, in many cases the need to adjust public expenditure has motivated the search for the active participation of the private sector in many countries, not only for the provision of port services but als...