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The article explores the connections between Jewish history and the Italian decolonization through the prism of the Libyan Jewry's mobility to Italy between 1948 and 1951 and between 1967 and 1970. At the same time, the analysis sheds light on how the attitude of the Italian autorities towards the Jews of Libya was moved by the hope of an Italian return to Libya in the immediate postwar period, and by the willingness to maintain sound political, commercial and cultural ties with its former colony after Libyan independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author addresses the issue of relationship between the organ transplantation and the migratory experience. In the transplant practice the organs “migrate”, prolonging their own existence and at the same time ensuring life to the recipient. The experience of organ transplantation shocks not only the body, but also the sense of Self, and the integration process is very complicated, because the hospitality is inseparable from the intrusion. The alienating experience of transplantation reveals the foreign in our own bodies. The new organ, in fact, is an intensily ambiguous object, that evokes the Freudian concept of Unheimlich. In this contribution the author tries to identify some analytical paths that could favour the psychosomatic integration of transplanted organs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this article is to initiate a reflection on the fundamental significance, in the lives of individuals born and raised in Apulia (Italy), of returning to their homeland and roots after having relocated. Following an outline of the historical, sociological, and geographical context, the psychological analysis will focus on migration, a longstanding phenomenon in Italy, to elucidate the cultural and familial factors motivating individuals from Apulian region to depart initially and subsequently, for diverse reasons, to return. Through the depiction of a co-therapy session and the articulation of elements intrinsic to the therapists themselves, this article will shed light on the characteristics of Apulian families - culturally intertwined, matriarchal, and often possessing fluid boundaries - aiming to understand the influences that, even amidst migration, facilitate a nuanced equilibrium between attachment and separation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Venice has historically been open to travellers and newcomers, and its stones have spoken in many languages, engendering a myriad of cross-cultural dialogues between the human and the nonhuman environment. With its waters reflecting multiple images, the city is an apt example for a proposed new theory on geometaphors that considers the poetic metaphors in their exact geographical and physical location. This essay applies this concept to Eugenia Bulat's contemporary poetry. A unique figure in the Italian literary landscape, Bulat invites an innovative geocritical reading of the city and her verses. In Moldova she was the first democratically elected mayor of her town, but in Venice she was a caretaker for the elderly. This experiential clash inspired three collections of poems. Through her gaze, elements of the amphibious Venetian ecosystem – water and stone – become metaphors of migrant femininity and stimulate an ethic of openness and respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In her article, Magdalena Horodecka analyzes Jarosław Mikołajewski’s literary reportage Wielki przypływ [High Tide] (2015), approaching the text in the perspective of literary journalism studies and literary anthropology. Key in Horodecka’s interpretation are the tools of journalistic epistemology, particularly the concept of transparency. She also examines ethical issues and the problem of migration. In Mikołajewski’s book, an important role is played by the characteristics of the Italian people who help the refugees. A crucial aspect of his narration and perception is the art of dialogue with the direct witnesses of events. Horodecka also stresses the importance of his reflective attitude, which is stimulated by the landscape of the Lampedusa island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes an insight into how migrants face the migrant journey. With the aim of analysing this subject matter, we referred to three of the most emblematic autobiographies in the field of migrant literature, namely: Io, venditore di elefanti, by Pap Khouma (1990), Ama il tuo sogno. Vita e rivolta nella terra dell’oro rosso by Yvan Sagnet (2012), and Il deserto negli occhi by Ibrahim Kane Annour (2013). These are the first-hand testimonies that allowed us to examine in depth the different stages of a migrant journey: from the preparations to the way back; going through the departure, the transit per se, and the settlement in the new territory. For the migrants, not only this journey is the expression of the need to improve their living conditions, but, at the same time, it also represents a path that leads them to an inner growth, and to the knowledge of themselves and of the Other. Moreover, while reading these testimonies, the reader is brought to the dimension of the otherness, thus becoming able to experience empathy and sharing.

Nonostante la iperdiversità linguistica che caratterizza molti contesti nazionali e il valore riconosciuto dalla letteratura scientifica alle lingue dei migranti come risorse per le società ospitanti, l’introduzione di tali lingue nei programmi di istruzione scolastica è una realtà consolidata solo in alcuni paesi europei. L’articolo si propone di identificare gli elementi che riguardano la formulazione degli interventi pubblici che possono condurre a un’efficace didattica delle lingua d’origine dei migranti, nonché le premesse contestuali e istituzionali che possono facilitare o ostacolare l’attivazione di processi di policy learning tra esperienze avanzate di insegnamento delle lingue d’origine (in questo studio, Austria e Svezia) ed esperienze meno avanzate in tal senso (in questo articolo, l’Italia). Il contributo affronta queste tematiche alla luce della teoria del lesson-drawing, comparando i tre sistemi d’istruzione nazionali, selezionati sulla base dei rispettivi approcci e obiettivi rispetto alle lingue dei migranti. La comparazione si sviluppa sia in termini di caratteristiche contestuali che di peculiarità delle specifiche politiche e servizi di didattica delle lingue dei migranti, sulla base di dati raccolti a partire da fonti ufficiali. I risultati della ricerca sono poi discussi alla luce della letteratura rilevante e indicano l’esistenza di molti facilitatori e di alcuni ostacoli all’attivazione di dinamiche di policy learning, proponendo al contempo alcune idee sviluppate a partire dalla comparazione sia per i policymaker che per coloro che sono preposti a erogare i servizi educativi.

Il sistema gestionale è il fulcro di tutte le attività di una biblioteca, dalla catalogazione alle acquisizioni alla circolazione, e la mancanza di un modulo per gestire le risorse elettroniche penalizza le attività quotidiane. La scelta di una nuova piattaforma integrata, però, può comportare sia vantaggi che sfide, tra cui il passaggio a un nuovo formato di catalogazione. Nel 2021, la Biblioteca di Ateneo dell’Università di Milano-Bicocca ha scelto di adottare il gestionale Worldshare Management Services (WMS) di OCLC, affiancando al cambio di software il passaggio da UNIMARC a MARC21. L’articolo vuole condividere le scelte e gli aspetti cruciali della transizione, soprattutto da un punto di vista catalografico: in particolare, si sofferma sul passaggio da un ambiente locale a uno condiviso, e sull’influenza che il nuovo formato adottato ha avuto sulle scelte catalografiche.

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In this article, the author proposes three layers of film analysis and spectatorship in order to discuss film director Elia Moutamid's oeuvre. The first layer refers to the filmic texts (plots and aesthetics), the second situates the films in their socio-historical and cinematographic contexts, and the third layer relates the films to Plato's simile of the cave, establishing their philosophical quality. The author argues that the interrelation between these various layers attests to the refinement of Moutamid's cinematic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws on Mieke Bal's reflections about the use of the documentary film as a way to explore migration cultures from a scholarly perspective, and it chronicles the production of Maka (2022), a film about Geneviève Makaping's life and thoughts on race and belonging. It focuses on the collaboration and dialogue with Makaping and director Elia Moutamid, among other members of the creative team, and it argues that collaboration and dialogue can have an impact beyond the academic context. Indeed, Maka is a hybrid work that blends theory and biographical storytelling, and it is therefore accessible to a larger audience. Documentaries involve self-reflective practices which might be useful to interrogate our position throughout the research process and to reflect upon the ethical questions which are involved in scholarly work about migration cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how two recent configurations of the Albanian sworn virgin prompt a reflection on the intersection of transgender discourses with questions of transnational mobility. Elvira Dones's novel Vergine giurata and its eponymous cinematic adaptation (directed by Laura Bispuri) imagine in diverging ways the material and symbolic disruptions that occur when this tribally sanctioned figure leaves Albania for another nation. Novel and film suggest to different degrees how this distinctive transgender figure challenges binary regimes of heteronormativity and the power-knowledge systems underpinning them, revealing contrasting investments in the possibilities of the sworn virgin's integration into the respective migratory settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lexicon of immigrant writers in Italy is full of words derived from their mother tongues. Among the semantic fields most involved is undoubtedly that of fashion. We find many clothes, dresses, fabrics typical of the areas of emigration to Italy: Arab world, states of sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia. Some of these are attested in Italian for a long time now (burnus, fez, sari); others are very recent, in correlation with migration and the presence of immigrant communities in Italy. The term ‘migratismo’ has been proposed for this class of words. Some ‘migratismi’ have already spread in Italian and recorded in vocabularies (for example the veils of Islamic women: burqa, hijab, niqab). Their circulation has produced derived and compound words (burkini, antiburqa). Others are well detectable in the italian literature of migration, where the authors explain the meaning with a gloss or in a note. Searches in archives and databases allow to understand the real circulation of these words.

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Questo contributo focalizza l’attenzione sulla scrittura di Laura Pariani, una fra le autrici italiane contemporanee più sperimentali, con l’intento di evidenziarne quegli elementi che caratterizzano i romanzi della post-postmodernità. La sua cifra stilistica è una scrittura costruita da frammenti e brani stranianti, da una lingua costantemente in bilico tra altre lingue, con la quale si riferisce al tema dell’emigrazione. In particolare si prenderanno in considerazione tre romanzi dell’autrice, che sembrano rappresentare al meglio le caratteristiche di questa nuova tipologia romanzesca e che sono stati pubblicati a cinque anni di distanza l’uno dall’altro: Quando Dio ballava il tango (2002), Ghiacciofuoco (2007 – scritto a quattro mani con Nicola Lecca) e Il piatto dell’angelo (2013). In queste opere, che hanno sempre per protagoniste le donne, l’emigrazione viene vissuta attraverso due differenti punti di vista: per chi parte vi è sradicamento e indeterminatezza, perdita della memoria e delle proprie radici; per chi resta vi è illusione, attesa, angoscia e lutto. Il tentativo di ricollocare la fluidità antinarrativa postmoderna entro pattern narrativi nuovi viene ben esemplificato da questi romanzi metamoderni, in cui sia l’autrice che le sue protagoniste sono costantemente alla ricerca di strutture identitarie più flessibili, che tengano conto delle molteplici deterritorializzazioni e dell’ampliamento del flusso transnazionale contemporaneo.This essay aims to investigate Laura Pariani as one of the most experimental contemporary Italian authors, with the purpose of highlighting those elements that characterise the post-postmodern novels. Her writing style is constructed by fragments, with a language constantly splitted between different languages, and it is focused on the issues connected to the emigration. In particular, three novels of the author will be taken into account, because they seem to best represent the characteristics of this new novel typology: Quando Dio ballava il tango (2002), Ghiacciofuoco (2007 – co-authored by Nicola Lecca) and Il piatto dell’angelo (2013). Those novels highlight some topoi of migrant literature, such as the loss of roots, the desire to retreat to one’s memories, the sense of loneliness and rootlessness etc. Emigration, for those who go away, represents uncertainty and displacement, loss of memory and roots; for those who are still waiting emigration represents vain hope, grief and despair. The analysis will try to understand if the contemporary transnational flows and the deterritorialization could be taken into account by the new post-postmodern novel; in particular, this essay aims to investigate the fluidity of contemporary storytelling, which inevitably leads to the existence of flexible identity structures.

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L’articolo tratta il fenomeno della migrazione dal punto di vista psicoanalitico insieme alle tematiche dell’interculturalità e della genitorialità. Tale lavoro vuol fare emergere la condizione di particolare vulnerabilità che caratterizza i soggetti migranti, nel loro confrontarsi con il complesso passaggio alla genitorialità. Le autrici intendono presentare le potenziali difficoltà connesse ai processi migratori, in particolare per quanto riguarda la sofferenza che molte donne vivono lasciando il loro paese d’origine e le violenze fisiche e psicologiche che spesso sono costrette a subire. Il complesso tema della migrazione viene affrontato con riguardo agli aspetti dell’integrazione e alle relative dinamiche che la caratterizzano, all’interno di una visione epistemica dell’essere umano, in cui ciascun soggetto mette a disposizione le proprie fragilità, risorse e competenze in un’ottica di crescita umana. Attraverso il viaggio terapeutico, il viaggio migratorio assume dignità e consistenza permettendo così ad entrambi di esistere.

Passages is a book about journeys: mythic, realistic journeys that bring people from one place to another, from one universe to another one. In this sense, all the characters are immigrants and/or exiles, moving through three different places: a Caribbean island (Haiti), Miami and Montreal. The aim of this essay is to introduce a non-specialist reader to the main themes of Ollivier’s novel which stands on migration, identity and home.

This manuscript reviews Translanguaging as Everyday Practice, edited by Gerardo Mazzaferro (Università degli Studi di Torino) and published in 2018 by Springer. The book contains 14 studies, drawing on different methodological approaches and implemented in multiple contexts, that contribute to a rich analysis of translanguaging. The concept of translanguaging is explored at the intersection of broader discussions, such as identity construction in immigrant or minority communities, language maintenance and loss, and individual agency in educational contexts. In this review, following a brief overview of the book’s objectives and intended audience, the contents of the individual chapters are presented with commentary on noteworthy and valuable contributions as well as minor critiques, which do not detract from the value of this excellent volume.

The "stranger" and the "other" are very different intrapsychic and relational topics both in their sources and their developments. Particularly is examined what's happen in migration when the foreign can suddenly become a "stranger" more then simply an "other". The perception of the migrants seems to waver between a complete otherness and a distorted double. As Abdelmalek Sayad said, migration has a "mirror function": both migrants and natives see in each other their own "strange parts", parts that they can't recognize as theirs. All this is examined in the complex situation of the coronavirus pandemic, with its deep psychic and anthropological consequences due to the sudden alteration of the borderline between the familiar/safe and the unfamiliar/dangerous with its anxiuos and uncanny effects that seem to transform any "other" in a "stranger". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 19th century, Red kite (Milvus milvus) was very common and widespread in Sardinia, but in the mid-900 an important decline occurred. Since the 1970s the species has been studied more continuously, but in recent years the published data seem contradictory. In 2018-2020, authors carried out specific research to collect data on the population of the Red kite in Sardinia exploring both the historical range of the species and areas where the species was reported in the past. In 2018-2020, we estimated 10-13 breeding pairs in an area of about 3,440 km2 located in the north west of Sardinia. As regard wintering, we estimated 30-40 birds in winters 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, whereas 90-110 birds were counted in winter 2020-2021. Nel diciannovesimo secolo il nibbio reale (Milvus milvus) era molto comune e diffuso in Sardegna, ma a metà del secolo si verificò un importante declino. Dagli anni '70 la specie è stata studiata con più continuità, ma negli ultimi anni i dati pubblicati sembrano contraddittori. Nel 2018-2020, gli autori hanno svolto ricerche specifiche per raccogliere dati sulla popolazione del nibbio reale in Sardegna esplorando sia l'attuale areale delle specie sia le aree in cui la specie è stata segnalata in passato. Nel 2018-2020 abbiamo stimato 10-13 coppie nidificanti in un'area di circa 3.440 km2 situata nel nord ovest della Sardegna. Per quanto riguarda lo svernamento, abbiamo stimato 30-40 uccelli negli inverni 2018-2019 e 2019-2020, mentre sono stati stimati 90-110 uccelli nell'inverno 2020-2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1880 and 1940 paternalist, philanthropic initiatives promoted the arts as an instrument to improve the condition of working people, and offer leisure opportunities to the aspiring classes of East London away from the West End. The foundation of the People's Palace in 1887 created opportunities for operatic performances which brought together philanthropist volunteers and local people, and attracted audiences from across the new suburbs stretching beyond the Mile End Road. These included from as early as 1893 'costume recitals' of 'scenes from popular Italian operas', and later regular seasons by the main touring Italian opera companies. This article uses archive sources from a range of institutions alongside literary and musical periodicals and local press to suggest ways in which Italian opera was viewed in relation to native and other foreign repertoires, and what this operatic 'slice of life' reveals about popular ideas of italianità in East London across this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In un momento in cui il discorso politico, sociale e mediatico rappresenta il tema della migrazione e della fuga come socialmente esplosivo, questo articolo analizza come nei racconti di Fra-intendimenti (2010) di Kaha Mohamed Aden la percezione di sé del soggetto migrante venga formata dagli stereotipi che la società di arrivo proietta su loro e come, allo stesso tempo, si rappresenti la vera complessità della realtà vissuta dal soggetto migrante attraverso una doppia referenzialità. Da una parte si ricorrerà alle riflessioni di Edward Said sulla costruzione europea ed egemonica dell’alterità e all’approccio di bell hooks, che si focalizza sulle intersezioni tra race e gender, per evidenziare le percezioni stereotipe della società di arrivo; dall’altra, il concetto di «Terzo Spazio» sviluppato da Homi K. Bhabha per segnalare le dinamiche di comunicazione in contesti migratori contribuirà a mostrare la complessità della realtà sperimentata dal soggetto migrante. Così, il lettore o la lettrice ha la possibilità di cambiare la propria percezione della realtà.