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Migration at the End of Empire

Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt

By: Joseph John Viscomi

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Migration at the End of Empire

Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt

By: Joseph John Viscomi

How has migration shaped Mediterranean history? And what role did conflicting temporalities and the politics of departure play in the age of decolonisation? Using a microhistorical approach, Migration at the End of Empire explores the experiences of over 55,000 Italian subjects in Egypt during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before 1937, Ottoman-era legal regimes fostered the coupling of nationalism and imperialism among Italians in Egypt, particularly as the fascist government sought to revive the myth of Mare Nostrum. With decolonisation, however, Italians began abandoning Egypt en masse. By 1960, over 40,000 had deserted Egypt; some as 'emigrants,' others as 'repatriates,'and still others as 'national refugees.' The departed community became an emblem around which political actors in post-colonial Italy and Egypt forged new ties. Anticipated, actual, and remembered departures of Italians from Egypt are at the heart of this book's ambition to rethink European and Mediterranean periodisation.

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Migration at the End of Empire

Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt

By: Joseph John Viscomi

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

By: Sarah Green,Samuli Lähteenaho,Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki,Carl Rommel,Joseph J. Viscomi,Laia Soto Bermant,Patricia Scalco

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

By: Sarah Green,Samuli Lähteenaho,Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki,Carl Rommel,Joseph J. Viscomi,Laia Soto Bermant,Patricia Scalco

An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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