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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778271003321

Autore

Merrill Heather

Titolo

An alliance of women [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and the politics of race / / Heather Merrill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9484-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

305.420945

Soggetti

Feminism - Italy

Women, Black - Italy - Social conditions

Women immigrants - Italy - Turin

Feminism - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: immigration and the spatial politics of scale -- The spatial politics of race and gender -- Alma  Mater: the architecture of an interethnic social politics -- Limiting the laboring: industrial restructuring and the new migration -- Extracomunitari in post-Fordist Turin -- Race, politics, and protest in the Casbah, or San Salvario, Africa -- Turin feminism: from workerism to interethnic gender alliance -- Making Alma Mater: gender, race, and other differences -- Conclusion: speaking subjects -- Epilogue: gender and globalization at the G8 in Genoa, July 2001.

Sommario/riassunto

Heather Merrill investigates how migrants and Northern Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. Using rich ethnographic material, Merrill traces the emergence of Alma MaterÑan anti-racist organization formed to address problems encountered by migrant women. Through this analysis, she reveals the dynamics of an alliance consisting of women from many countries of origin and religious and class backgrounds.