ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the case of the 'movement of migrants and refugees in Caserta (MMRC), which presents the peculiarity of being one of the few long-term experiments between Italian squatting activists and migrant workers in Southern Italy. It describes the geographical context in which the MMRC has developed. Then, it explores how the local squatter's and migrant's trajectories have crossed to give birth to this social movement. It also describes the specific organization of the MMRC to understand how they managed to obtain real gains for migrant workers. The chapter further considers that how these gains, together with the migrant's participation in the MMRC, have contributed to the recognition of migrants as political players capable of challenging their exclusion, criminalization and precariousness. This socio-political experiment underlines the difficulties in setting up self-managed spaces with migrants that represent a social category whose economic, social and cultural capital cannot be compared with those of the local activists struggling with them.
