Book(electronic)2018

Migration and the contemporary mediterranean: shifting cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and beyond

In: Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century 3

Gualtieri, Claudia

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Abstract

This collection of essays presents a study of migration cultures in the contemporary Mediterranean with a particular focus on Italy as a point of migratory convergence and pressure. It investigates different experiences of, and responses to, sea crossings, borders and checkpoints, cultural proximity and distance, race, ethnicity and memory, along with creative responses to the same. In dialogic and complementary interaction, the essays explore violence centring on race as the major determining factor. The book further submits that the interrogation of racialized categories represents different kinds of critical response and resistance, which involve both political struggle and day-to-day survival and coexistence. Following the praxis of cultural and postcolonial studies, the essays focus on the present but draw indispensable insight from past connections and heritage as well as offering prognoses for the future. The ambitious aim of this collection is to identify some useful lines of thought and action that could help us to think outside intricacy, isolation and defensiveness, which characterize most of the public official reactions to migration today

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Migration and the contemporary Mediterranean: shifting cultures in twenty-first-century Italy and beyond

In: Race and resistance across borders in the long twentieth century volume 3

Gualtieri, Claudia
Gualtieri, Claudia

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