- Title Information
- Title
- Eritrea, A Diaspora in Two Parts: Memory, Political Organizing and Refugee Experiences in Italy.
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- Berhane, Fiori Sara
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- Fruzzetti, Lina
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- Advisor
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- Kertzer, David
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- Reader
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- Leinaweaver, Jessaca
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- Redeker-Hepner, Tricia
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- Brown University. Department of Anthropology
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- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
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- IX, 232 p.
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- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2021
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- theses
- Abstract
- This study charts the affective and performative dimensions of intergenerational rupture between members of Eritrea’s diaspora in Bologna, Italy. This study locates political struggles around meaning both within intimate social spaces—weddings, bars, and local festivals—and within official spaces, toward a phenomenological and granular perspective that charts processes of social change and contestation within stratified diasporas marked by serial waves of displacement. It is dissertation is based on 19 months of ethnographic and archival research in Emilia-Romagna, the heart of what in the decades following the Second World War was Italy’s communist “Red Belt.” Bologna was chosen as a site for this dissertation because of its hitherto unexamined role as the “capital of Eritreans in exile”. The Introduction examines the imbrication of border regimes and humanitarianism in the Euro-Saharan Mediterranean and sets the historical and political context for the dissertation. Chapter 1 looks at the process of engendering the nationalist past through the perspectives of Eritrean nationalist women, whose refusal to stand as research subjects indexes the freighted nature of multiple unassimilated pasts. Chapter 2 examines efforts of recent Eritrean refugees to memorialize the Lampedusa sinking as part of a strategy to make what I term discursive space—to challenge dominant humanitarian and nationalist discourses that render recent refugees unintelligible as political subjects. Chapter 3 examines the work of Eritrean care workers within Italy’s SPRAR system—its refugee and asylum-seeker reception system—it argues that homosocial practices of care seek to reconstitute communal bonds from the ephemeral sociopolitical realities of transit migration. Chapter 4 explores the phenomenology of violence and the narrative strategies that Eritreans use to remember violence that is denied, minimized or veiled. Chapter 5 defines the state of refugee reception and integration in Italy as a racially stratified policy practice that has significant material consequences in the lives of African refugees, in particular, and for the future of Eritreans in Italy, more specifically. I conclude the dissertation by drawing attention to the paradoxes of humanitarian recognition.
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- Italy--Bologna
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- Political refugees
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- African diaspora
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- Postcolonialism
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- Transnationalism
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- Political violence
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- temporality
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- Collective memory
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- Forced migration
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- Eritrea
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- place
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- English
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- RPB
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- 20210607
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- dissertations