Politiche del ritorno e governance dell’accoglienza in Italia: Economie del tempo e degli affetti nelle esperienze di operatori e richiedenti asilo = Return Policies and Asylum Reception Governance in Italy: Temporal and Affective Economies in the Experiences of Operators and Asylum Seeker

The nexus between return policies and the Italian asylum system provides a framework for observing how reception workers and asylum seekers negotiate the discursive and operational repertoires embedded in Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs in their daily encounters. Ethnographic research conducted in an Italian reception centre demonstrates the complex ways these actors navigate return regimes, recalibrate multiple and layered temporalities, and challenge the normative categories that shape EU border governance.