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

• Autore: Carter Donald Martin <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1997; ©1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.896/63045
• Soggetto topico: Senegalese - Italy - Social conditions; Senegalese - Cultural assimilation - Italy; Muslims - Italy - Social conditions; Culture conflict - Italy
• Soggetto geografico: Italy Race relations; Italy Social conditions 1976-1994
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: States of grace
• ISBN: 0-8166-8625-4; 0-8166-2543-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778383403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II