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The article focuses on the life-story of a Slovenian emigrant Stanka that serves as a basis to elucidate the processes of illegal migrations from the western Yugoslavian outskirts towards Italy. The personal perspective enables a more thorough and detailed insight into the massive outflow of Slovenian population in the initial postwar years and intends to upgrade the politicized and ideologically conditioned understanding of the phenomenon. In order to better understand the issue, the text encompasses the time before and after the act of Stanka's flight itself, trying to illuminate all the crucial events in her life that eventually led to or were conditioned by her emigration. Her story is embedded in the family environment and is also contextualized with historical development. Oral history interviews, informative conversations, analysis of various ego-documents and biographical notes are therefore supported with relevant literature from the field of historical and migration studies in order to reconstruct Stanka's migratory experience.

The article examines the results of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land related to the case study of the Mau forest (Rift Valley region). The Commission's work (2002-05) has brought to light the close link between land and political patronage, illustrating how land allocation has been used by the political, judicial and military élite to pursue their own political and personal interests. The paper aims to reflect on the effects of the Ndung'u Commission Report in the south-western region of the Mau forest; in particular, it analyses the process of "degazettement" that in the period of democratic transition (1991-2002) led to the conversion of large portions of forest into agricultural land.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of 'Dialogues' as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with 'others', which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, "dialogue" as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title 'translated' into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

The data and considerations in this article were collected and analyzed throughout a fieldwork research in Beit Sahour (West Bank), which aimed at studying the working and living conditions of olive-wood craftsmen. The present paper intends to broaden that analysis and draw the complex frame that operates onto the Palestinian population both socially and economically. Processes of inclusion and exclusion integrate each other rather than simply being opposed: within such a frame, Israeli policies are shaped to exercise control over the territory through strategies of spatio-cide (Hanafi) and over the population through the discipline of mobility as well as through the imposition of a regime of discrimination within the local communities. ; L'articolo parte da dati e riflessioni raccolte durante una ricerca sul campo a Beit Sahour (Cisgiordania), volta a indagare le condizioni lavorative e di vita degli artigiani che lavorano il legno d'olivo. Il presente contributo si propone di ampliare l'analisi nell'intento di tracciare il complesso quadro che agisce sulla popolazione palestinese, a livello economico e sociale, attraverso processi di esclusione ed inclusione che si integrano più che contrapporsi. Entro queste linee emerge l'intento delle politiche israeliane di esercitare il controllo sul territorio attraverso strategie di spazio-cidio (Hanafi) e sulla popolazione attraverso la disciplina della sua mobilità e l'imposizione di regimi di discriminazione interni.