<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Intra-EU labour migration literature is fairly limited within migration studies and it has seldom considered migrants' embodied experiences and processes of subjectivation as a constitutive element of translocal economic transformations. The present paper focuses on the popular economies enacted by a segment of the migrant working class moving from Vicovu de Sus in Suceava district, Romania to Turin, Italy after 1989 as entangled in the production of “neoliberalism from below” (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_subbs-2016-0011_ref_035_w2aab2b8c11b1b7b1ab1ac35Aa">Gago, 2015</xref>). Mobilizing oral histories collected during an ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2012 and 2013, I will present some aspects related to the fields of <italic>production</italic> and <italic>reproduction</italic> within the movements of migrants belonging to a pentecostal community affiliated to the <italic>Cultul Penticostal – Biserica lui Dumnezeu Apostolică</italic>. Pentecostalism is here understood as a performative regime of truth and practices (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_subbs-2016-0011_ref_034_w2aab2b8c11b1b7b1ab1ac34Aa">Foucault, 1987</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_subbs-2016-0011_ref_048_w2aab2b8c11b1b7b1ab1ac48Aa">Marshall, 2009</xref>), through which migrant bodies perform processes of subjectivation to actively “inhabit” the borders of the State and Capital. Bukovinean pentecostal discourse, through an entrepreneurial drive, a cultural shift towards material prosperity and a strict gendered division of labour, seems to have fostered the creation of a self-organized translocal community whose economic practices obey/re-enact rather than escape/re-signify the dynamics of exploitation and dispossession proper of Romania's peripheral incorporation into contemporary global regimes of production, accumulation and division of labour.</p></abstract>

Intra-EU labour migration literature is fairly limited within migration studies and it has seldom considered migrants' embodied experiences and processes of subjectivation as a constitutive element of translocal economic transformations. The present paper focuses on the popular economies enacted by a segment of the migrant working class moving from Vicovu de Sus in Suceava district, Romania to Turin, Italy after 1989 as entangled in the production of “neoliberalism from below” (Gago, 2015). Mobilizing oral histories collected during an ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2012 and 2013, I will present some aspects related to the fields of production and reproduction within the movements of migrants belonging to a pentecostal community affiliated to the Cultul Penticostal – Biserica lui Dumnezeu Apostolică. Pentecostalism is here understood as a performative regime of truth and practices (Foucault, 1987; Marshall, 2009), through which migrant bodies perform processes of subjectivation to actively “inhabit” the borders of the State and Capital. Bukovinean pentecostal discourse, through an entrepreneurial drive, a cultural shift towards material prosperity and a strict gendered division of labour, seems to have fostered the creation of a self-organized translocal community whose economic practices obey/re-enact rather than escape/re-signify the dynamics of exploitation and dispossession proper of Romania's peripheral incorporation into contemporary global regimes of production, accumulation and division of labour.

The Ambivalent Autonomy of Mobile “Pocăiți” between Vicovu de Sus, Romania and Turin, Italy after 1989

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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Intra-EU labour migration literature is fairly limited within migration studies and it has seldom considered migrants' embodied experiences and processes of...

The Ambivalent Autonomy of Mobile “Pocăiți” between Vicovu de Sus, Romania and Turin, Italy after 1989

Published Online: Jan 27, 2017

Page range: 71 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2016-0011

Keywords
intra-EU labour migration, post-communism, subjectivation, pentecostalism, neoliberalism from below

© 2016 Cecilia Rubiolo, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Ambivalent Autonomy of Mobile “Pocăiți” between Vicovu de Sus, Romania and Turin, Italy after 1989

Published Online: Jan 27, 2017

Page range: 71 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2016-0011

Keywordsintra-EU labour migration, post-communism, subjectivation, pentecostalism, neoliberalism from below

© 2016 Cecilia Rubiolo, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
intra-EU labour migration, post-communism, subjectivation, pentecostalism, neoliberalism from below