Narrating Migration

Sabina Perrino is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Binghamton University. She has conducted research in Senegal and Northern Italy on topics such as racialized language; offline/online narratives; intimacy; migration; language revitalization; transnationalism; ethnomedicine; political discourse. She co-edited seven Special Issues for journals including Language in Society, Language & Communication, and Applied Linguistics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Transcription Conventions

Introduction

Geographical Location: Northern Italy

Collecting Data in Northern Italy: Methodology

Co-Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions and Bivalency

Book Structure - Outline of Chapters

Chapter 1

Migration and Politics in Northern Italy








Introduction



Mediterranean Migrations in and through Italy



Multiculturalism and Superdiversity in Italy



Inclusion-Resistant Superdiversity and Communities of Practice in Northern Italy



Intimacy and Intimate Identities



Intimacies of Exclusion in and through DNA





DNA and Brand Identities in Narratives about Italian Fashion



DNA and Language Use in Veneto, Northern Italy




Concluding Remarks



Chapter 2

The Lega Nord (‘Northern League’):

Language Revitalization and Anti-Immigration Politics

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Lega Nord (‘Northern League’) and its Anti-Immigrant Politics

2.3 Beyond the Lega: New Political Movements in Italy

2.4 Poeticizing and Politicizing Language Revitalization

2.5 Local Languages and Standardized Italian: A Brief Historical Background

2.6 Revitalizing Language, Culture and History in Veneto and Beyond

2.6.1 the Liga Veneta Repubblica’s Flag

2.6.2 Terre dei Dogi in Festa in Portogruaro, Veneto

2.6.3 Revitalization of Venetan and the "Veneto State"

2.7 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3

Racializing Narratives: Stance, Scale, and Chronotope

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Narratives as Discursive Practices

3.3 Narrative Practices through Spatiotemporal Scales: The Bakhtinian Chronotope

3.4 Chronotopes Through Scalar Intimacy

3.5 Racialized Storytelling: Stance and Stancetaking

3.6 Narrating Extracomunitari in Veneto’s Health Care Facilities

3.7 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4

Intimacies of Exclusion in and through Storytelling

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Racialized Narratives in Research Qualitative Interviews

4.3 Intimacies of Exclusion in Political Rallies

4.4 Narrating Authenticity and Migration in Northern Italian Historical Cafés

4.5 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5

Performing Extracomunitari in Barzellette

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Racialized Jokes as "Keyed" Performances

5.3 Barzellette and Italian Joke-Tellers

5.4 Racialized Barzellette in Formal Political Addresses

5.5 Enacting Extracomunitari in barzellette in Veneto

5.5.1 "In Padua There are So Many Extracomunitari!"

5.5.2 "Starting Today, You are Giovanni!":

Assigning Italian Names to Migrant Students

5.6 Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

Intimacies of Exclusion in and through Storytelling Practices

Racialized Barzellette in Northern Italy

Intimacies of Exclusion: Future Research

References

Index