Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

Paolo Boccagni’s monograph offers a close-up, thought provoking ethnography of young men from West Africa who have been placed at an asylum centre in northern Italy while they wait for a decision o...

Authors

Karen Fog Olwig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2984-0156)

Institutions

University of Copenhagen (DK)

Publication Details

Journal: Ethnos
Published: 2026-08-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2026.2720146
Primary Topic: Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Type: article
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Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

Karen Fog Olwig

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Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

Karen Fog Olwig

August 25, 2026article en

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Ethnos

University of Copenhagen (DK)

Reduced inequalities

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Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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