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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814605803321

Autore

Carter Donald Martin <1955->

Titolo

States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration / / Donald Martin Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8625-4

0-8166-2543-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

305.896/63045

Soggetti

Senegalese - Italy - Social conditions

Senegalese - Cultural assimilation - Italy

Muslims - Italy - Social conditions

Culture conflict - Italy

Italy Race relations

Italy Social conditions 1976-1994

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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