ISBN:
9780816625420
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (292 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version States of Grace : Senegalese in Italy and the New European Immigration
DDC:
305.896/63045
Keywords:
Culture conflict ; Italy
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Italy ; Race relations
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Italy ; Social conditions ; 1976-1994
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Muslims ; Italy ; Social conditions
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Senegalese ; Cultural assimilation ; Italy
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Senegalese ; Italy ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Focusing on Turin, the northern Italian point of entry for so many Senegalese, this book chronicles the arrival and formation of a transnational African Islamic community in a largely Catholic Western European country, one that did not have immigrant legi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Invisible Cities; 1 Desert Crossings; 2 Turin: Work and Its Shadow in a Post-Fordist City; 3 Mouridism Touba Turin; Part II. States of Grace; 4 The Art of the State: Difference and Other Abstractions; 5 Media Politics and the Migrant; 6 Other Crossings: Socialist in Fascist Clothing; 7 Desperate Measures: Immigration and the South of the World; 8 Closing the Circle: On Sounding Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
