Il ruolo dei confini nell’Unione Europea.: L’attivismo prosociale della rete Stop Border Violence

Abstract

The main purpose of the Stop Border Violence network is to organise joint action, in a
prosocial way, through the use of the formal instrument of the ECI, namely the European

Citizens’ Initiative: this initiative is aimed at inducing the European Commission to guar-
antee and apply, specifically to migrants, the provisions established in art. 4 of the Charter

of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Although recent studies on pro-migrant
European protests (Calvário et al., 2020; Fadaee, 2021; Monforte e Maestri, 2022) reveal
actions of dissent against political institutions, the aforementioned network would seem to
influence political decisions in order to improve the management of migration and ensure
respect for human rights. The purpose of the contribution is to analyse the link between

prosocial and institutional activism, through the analysis of 15 narrative interviews ad-
dressed to Stop Border Violence activists. The network’s participants will be examined to

determine their preference for institutionalised or traditional protest, considering both the

current emergency situation at the borders and the future implications linked to the Euro-
pean context.