States of grace : Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration / Donald Martin Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Donald Martin, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senegalese--Italy--Social conditions.

Senegalese.

Senegalese--Cultural assimilation--Italy.

Muslims--Italy--Social conditions.

Muslims.

Culture conflict--Italy.

Culture conflict.

Italy--Race relations.

Italy.

Italy--Social conditions--1976-1994.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on Turin, the northern Italian point of entry for so many Senegalese, this book chronicles the arrival and formation of a transnational African Islamic community in a largely Catholic Western European country, one that did not have immigrant legi

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Invisible Cities; 1 Desert Crossings; 2 Turin: Work and Its Shadow in a Post-Fordist City; 3 Mouridism Touba Turin; Part II. States of Grace; 4 The Art of the State: Difference and Other Abstractions; 5 Media Politics and the Migrant; 6 Other Crossings: Socialist in Fascist Clothing; 7 Desperate Measures: Immigration and the South of the World; 8 Closing the Circle: On Sounding Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1992) presented under the title: Invisible cities, Touba Turin, Sengalese transnational migrants in northern Italy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8625-4

0-8166-2543-3

OCLC:

567827811