UID:
almahu_9949996613102882
Format:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520404113
,
0520404114
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What does everyday life look like for young men who flee to Europe, survive, and are then assigned temporary housing? Hypersurveillance or parallel normality, irrelevance, or even nothingness? Based on four years of ethnographic research, Undoing Nothing recounts the untold story of Italian asylum seekers' struggles to produce relevance--that is, to carve out meaning, control, and direction from their legal and existential liminality. Their ways of inhabiting space and time rest on a deeply ambivalent position: together and alone, inside and outside, absent and present. Their racialized bodies dwell in their assigned residence while their selves inhabit a suspended translocal space of moral economies, nightmares, and furtive dreams. This book illuminates a distinctly modern form of purgatory, offering both a perceptive critique of state responses to the so-called refugee crisis and nuanced psychological portraits of a demographic rarely afforded narrative depth and grace.
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Background -- 2. The Center -- 3. Inside, Outside -- 4. Still, Moving -- 5. Present, Absent -- 6. Dirty, Clean -- 7. Home, Non-home -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520404106
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520404106
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
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