Migrant belongings: memory, space, identity

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This book challenges generalised assumptions about ethnicity in Britain by positing that Italian identity formation cannot be understood in racial terms alone.

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Full title :Migrant belongings : memory, space, identity / Anne-Marie Fortier.

Summary

This book challenges generalised assumptions about ethnicity in Britain by positing that Italian identity formation cannot be understood in racial terms alone.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berg
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 209 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, 1 map ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1859734057, 9781859734056, 1859734103, 9781859734100
oclc:ocm43542693
LC Classification:DA125.I85
Dewey Decimal:305.851041

Introduction: Performative Belongings -- 1. Situating the Italian Project of Visibility -- pt. I. Histories and Identity Politics -- 2. Imagining a Community: Migration, Settlement, Sacrifice and the Trope Kinship -- 3. The Politics of 'Italians Abroad': Nation, Diaspora and New Geographies of identity -- pt. II. Spaces, Memories, and Displays of Identity -- 4. Space, Place and Icons: creating 'habitual spaces' -- 5. Re-membering places and the performance of belonging -- Conclusion: Memory, Location and the Body Motions of Duration -- App. 1. Methodological Considerations -- App. 2. Italian-born Population in Britain 1861-1991 -- App. 3. Italian-born Population in London, 1991 -- App. 4. Italian Associations and Committees named in the Book -- App. 5. Vote in Italian Senate on New Election Bill, 1993.

Subjects

Culturele identiteit demografie demography Ethnicité -- Grande-Bretagne Ethnicity Ethnicity -- Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain -- Emigration and immigra… Grossbritannien Immigranten Italianen Italians -- Ethnic identity Italians -- Ethnic identity. -- Great B… Italienischer Einwanderer Italy Italy -- Emigration and immigration migratie Migration sociaal milieu Social Environment