Margins of Resistance: Intersecting Mobility and Socio‐Environmental Justice in Rural Contexts

Migration and socio-environmental justice are becoming increasingly intertwined as climate change reshapes global mobilitypatterns while intensifying existing inequalities. In this context, grassroots initiatives that combine mobility justice with socio-environmental justice are emerging as forms of resistance to the economic, gendered, racial and territorial exclusions experiencedby marginalised communities. This contribution highlights the growing convergence of these frameworks in rural settings,focusing on community-led initiatives in southern Italy that situate mobility, hospitality and ecological practices within broaderstruggles for justice. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in the village of Camini, the article examines how locally rootedactors integrate practices of reception with socio-ecological interventions. The case of Camini illustrates how marginalised ruralcommunities can generate situated forms of socio-environmental resistance by addressing environmental challenges and socialexclusion together. In particular, the article shows how centring imaginative capacities, interdependencies and knowledges fromthe margins can reframe marginalised places as sites of radical possibility.