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Autore |
Carter Donald Martin <1955-> |
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Titolo |
States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration / / Donald Martin Carter |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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0-8166-8625-4 |
0-8166-2543-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Senegalese - Italy - Social conditions |
Senegalese - Cultural assimilation - Italy |
Muslims - Italy - Social conditions |
Culture conflict - Italy |
Italy Race relations |
Italy Social conditions 1976-1994 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1992) presented under the title: Invisible cities, Touba Turin, Sengalese transnational migrants in northern Italy. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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