HOMING INTERVIEW #63: FRANCESCO CHIODELLI

“By mobilizing the notion of slums we do not identify only a specific object, a specific type of settlement, but we identify simultaneously some groups which we do not consider entitled to citizenship rights. I mean, the crucial difference between Pasolini’s Accattone and, say, Mustafa living in a migrant slum in Southern Italy is that they have different citizenship rights: Accattone was an Italian citizen (although a poor and marginalized person). Mustafa doesn’t have any kind of citizenship right”.