Other Borders

Sabrina Tosi Cambini is Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Parma. She has previously served as a researcher for the Giovanni Michelucci Foundation, and taught at the University of Verona, the University of Florence and the University for Foreigners of Siena. She is also Scientific Coordinator of the Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Parma and the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations under the auspices of UNESCO (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia).

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Acknowledgements

Foreword



Introduction



Part I: History and Mobility



Chapter 1. The Nine Sisters

Chapter 2. Genealogical, Historical, Geographical Space

Chapter 3. Ethnographic Morceau: Memorial

Chapter 4. Marriage Rites and Practices

Chapter 5. Ethnographic Morceau: Ionica’s Conversion



Part II: The Time of Migrations: Home, Mobility and Transnationalism



Prologue      



Chapter 6. Leaving

Chapter 7. Migratory Décalages

Chapter 8. The Intertwining of Migration and Fights for the Right to Housing and to the City

Chapter 9. Ethnographic Morceau: Displacements and Evictions

Chapter 10. Settlement Strategies after la Luzzi

Chapter 11. Work in the Migration Context

Chapter 12. Acasă/At Home

Chapter 13. Ethnographic Morceau: Feeling Lonely

Chapter 14. Shifting Sense

Chapter 15. Ethnographic Morceau: Seven Sisters



Conclusion: An Open Field: The Rudari and Brâncuși                           



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