The Mediterranean Passage Migration and New Cultural Encounters in Southern Europe

by King, Russell

• ISBN13: 9780853236467
• ISBN10: 0853236461
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-05
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, southern Europe became a key destination for global migration. Countries which had been important source countries for emigration, mainly to northern Europe, quickly became targets for international migrants coming from an extraordinary range of source countries. Today, the management of immigration is complex with countries torn between the need to satisfy the rules of Schengen and ‘fortress Europe' on the one hand, and the economic benefits of cheap and flexible labour supplies on the other. This book brings together a variety of detailed studies recording the ‘cultural encounters' of these migrants. Most of the chapters are based on detailed research in locations such as Lisbon, the Algarve, Barcelona, Turin, Bologna, Sicily and Athens, as well as in source countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Albania and the Philippines. What emerges is a scenario diverse and rapidly evolving, with cultural encounters which are both enriching and depressing, yet always fascinating.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
List of Contributors	x
The troubled passage: migration and cultural encounters in southern Europe	1	(21)
Russell King
Revising migratory contexts: the Mediterranean caravanserai	22	(19)
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Cultural dimensions of African immigrants in Iberian labour markets: a comparative approach	41	(25)
Cristobal Mendoza
Festes, ferias and hip-hop: images of multiculturalism in Barcelona	66	(29)
Mariagiulia Grassilli
Reinventing cultures: the contribution of the Cape Verdean community to the cultural dynamics of Lisbon	95	(24)
Alina Esteves
Maria Jose Caldeira
African immigrants and their organisations in Lisbon: between social and systemic influence	119	(27)
Ricard Moren-Alegret
Immigration and national literature: Italian voices from Africa and the diaspora	146	(16)
Alessandra Di Maio
Inclusionary rhetoric/exclusionary practice: an ethnographic critique of the Italian Left in the context of migration	162	(24)
Davide Pero
The double passage: Tunisian migration to the South and North of Italy	186	(20)
Faical Daly
San Salvario, Turin: the creation of a dangerous place 1990-99	206	(25)
John Foot
Family formation in gendered migrations: Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna	231	(27)
Elisabetta Zontini
Transforming traditions: a critical analysis of the trafficking and exploitation of young Albanian girls in Italy	258	(21)
Nicola Mai
Deconstructing naturalism: the racialisation of ethnic minorities in Greece	279	(23)
Gabriella Lazaridis
Maria Koumandraki
Index	302