Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781787073517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 494 str.

Claudia Gualtieri

Opis

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. The essays include topics such as sea crossings, borders and checkpoints, cultural proximity and distance, and the role of race, ethnicity, and memory in migration.

Recenzje

«Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean is all about crossing borders, blurring boundaries, following routes, traversing distances and differences. It rereads space as transits marked by the remembrance of things past, present and future. The book itself is a wonderful exercise in the very kind of mapping that is the very life of the Mediterranean.» (Lawrence Grossberg, Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

«Carefully woven and attuned by Claudia Gualtieri, this collective book radically unpacks what is currently discussed as a 'migration crisis' in Italy and in Europe. A sea of death and a sea of struggle for thousands of migrants, the Mediterranean becomes a prism that unmakes familiar geographies, partitions and borders. And migration becomes a movement whose political implications continue to challenge our imagination.» (Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna, and co-author, with Brett Neilson, of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013))

«Claudia Gualtieri's remarkable collection reflects from multiple perspectives both creative and scholarly on the perilous pathways traced in our new millennium across this most traversed of seas. It would be difficult to think of a more evocative, humane response to the European migration crisis than we find in these pages with their important lessons that connectivity is irrefutable, scholarship defeats hatred, and stories give shelter.» (Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: 99 Posse: «Spara!» - Claudia Gualtieri: Cultures in movement across the postcolonial middle sea - Giuseppe Campesi: Frontex and the production of the Euro-Mediterranean borderlands (2006-2016) - Martina Tazzioli: Lampedusa as a hotspot: Channels of (forced) mobility and preventive illegalization beyond the island - Yodit Estifanos Afewerki: The failures of Italian migration responses/approaches: The relocation scheme and the protection of unaccompanied and separated children - Simona Taliani: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child: Nigerian migration, race memories and the decolonization of motherhood - Fabio Caffio: Governing illegal immigration by sea: The difficult Italian challenge - Andrea Mario Lavezzi and Eileen Quinn: Migrant smuggling across the Mediterranean: An economic analysis - Claudia Gualtieri: Bodies in transit: The imperial mechanism of biopolitics - Jill H. Casid: Necropolitics at Sea - Tahar Lamri: The master's house - Marina Warner and Valentina Castagna: Stories in Transit/Storie in transito: Storytelling and arrivants' voices in Sicily - Paolo Gaibazzi: Back way to Babylon: (Unauthorized) migration and postcolonial consciousness in the Gambia - Massimo Zaccaria: Migration from the Horn of Africa: Rethinking space and time - Paul Carter: Emergency languages: Echoes of Columbus in discourses of precarity - Lidia De Michelis: Of islands and bears: The aesthetics and politics of Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare - Daniele Comberiati: Identity, memory, gender and plurilingualism in postcolonial women writers from Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia - Marco Martinelli: The circle of «I am us»: The dreams of Mandiaye N'Diaye, griot by vocation - Pap Khouma: Twenty thousand alive under the Sea of Sicily - Itala Vivan: The Janus-faced doors of Mediterranean emigration/immigration in museums and archives - Dagmawi Yimer: Documentaries as a new form of resistance - Roberto Pedretti: Resistance through performance in the Italian hip-hop scene - Iain Chambers: Broken geographies - Alda Merini: «Una volta sognai» / «Once I had a dream».

O autorze

Claudia Gualtieri is Assistant Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory) at the University of Milan.