An alliance of women : immigration and the politics of race / Heather Merrill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merrill, Heather.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Italy.

Feminism.

Women, Black--Italy--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Women immigrants--Italy--Turin.

Women immigrants.

Feminism--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heather Merrill investigates how migrants and Northern Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. Using rich ethnographic material, Merrill traces the emergence of Alma MaterÑan anti-racist organization formed to address problems encountered by migrant women. Through this analysis, she reveals the dynamics of an alliance consisting of women from many countries of origin and religious and class backgrounds.

Contents:

Introduction: immigration and the spatial politics of scale

The spatial politics of race and gender

Alma Mater: the architecture of an interethnic social politics

Limiting the laboring: industrial restructuring and the new migration

Extracomunitari in post-Fordist Turin

Race, politics, and protest in the Casbah, or San Salvario, Africa

Turin feminism: from workerism to interethnic gender alliance

Making Alma Mater: gender, race, and other differences

Conclusion: speaking subjects

Epilogue: gender and globalization at the G8 in Genoa, July 2001.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9484-2

OCLC:

476124029