Paper short abstract:

Neoloberism not only commodifies and reduces public places but in the case of migrants produces exclusion. In our talk we will analyse how people with diversified rights and status fought for dwelling’s right through ‘squatting’ practice.

Paper long abstract:

In Italy, particularly in a big cities as Rome, there is a long history of squatting in house and struggle for the dwelling's right.

The paper will be divided into two parts. The first section It will be focused on the history of the movement that struggle for the dwelling's right in Rome. this social movement in recent years has seen a shift from the struggle for the right to housing to the struggle for dwelling's right and "right to the city"(LeFebvre, H, 2014; Harvey, D., 2013). This change has crossed the struggles of migrants who have transformed the fight for housing rights in a struggle for human rights and a form of resistance to the processes of exclusion (Tyler, I., Marciniak, K., 2013).

The second section, starting from to ethnographic examples on migrants squatting in house in Rome, will explore two topics: 1. the construction of temporary or permanent new social groups in the squatting houses, the dynamics of conflict and relations between migrant groups with different nationalities and different legal status. 2. the practices of resistance of migrants Moroccan women involved in the dwelling's struggles, as acts of resistance, constructing a new citizenship as political belonging.

It conclusion we will reflect in what extend the experience of squatting produces new political subjectivities capable to challenge the neoliberal logic of commodification of urban and dwelling and, finally redrawn and challenged the boundaries between public and private spheres, between legal-illegal and between inclusion/exclusion.