Overview
- Collapses disciplinary boundaries in Italian studies
- Examines interplay of race, identity, and positionality
- Combines ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and textual analysis
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name “Lampedusa” as a means of restoring a sense of subjectivity or agency to migrants themselves. Jacopo Colombini argues that the work of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome), the self-organised refugee group Lampedusa in Hamburg, and the Lampedusa-based Collettivo Askavusa offers an alternative to the stereotypical, often racially connoted, public discussion of migrant presence in Italy and Europe. He also demonstrates, however, that the marginalisation of migrant and refugee voices in the public discourse is also partially and unavoidably reproduced in the cultural projects that wish to restore their agency.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Lampedusa
Book Subtitle: Representing Migration in Italy and Beyond
Authors: Jacopo Colombini
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45734-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45733-3Published: 08 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45736-4Due: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45734-0Published: 07 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, European History, History of Italy, World History, Global and Transnational History