Paper short abstract:

This paper presents the data stemming from an on-going research in Rome (Italy) about migrants and second generations who live in occupied buildings. It aims to read tha practice of squatting in term of "acts of citizenship" (Isin 2008).

Paper long abstract:

This paper aims at presenting the data stemming from an on-going ethnographical research in Rome (Italy) about migrants and second generations who live in occupied buildings. The methodology follows the idea of participatory research, where objects and topics are negotiated with "natives" as much as possible. The people involved in the research are the activists of Blocchi Precari Metropolitani and squatters of four occupied buildings: hotel4stelle, CasalBoccone, Collatina and Anagnina. The last two do not have to do with Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, since they are self-managed by Eritrean refugees and Asylum Seekers that represent the majority of the population inside. This paper would like to show the different stakes for the squatters that most of times depend on different needs, horizon and way to live the urban space. The theoretical aim is to reflect on citizenship as a battlefield (Oliveri 2015), trying to take in the same account both the reflection on the citizenship as a way to create social hierarchies (Mezzadra 2012) and what Isin (2008) defines "act of citizenships": actions based on the right to have rights that challenge the social order by struggles and political activism. This will be done through an anthropological perspective that starts from "native's" point of view: the paper will show how people act in the battlefield of citizenship, stemming from their different stakes, that could be the gender relationships, child education and so on: doing this the paper follows Ong's (2005) suggestion to consider citizenship related to "the materiality of Ethics".