«Moving on the thread of belonging: fragments of subaltern discourses in the Italian Consular Court in Cairo»
(2022) «Mediterranean Mobilities between Migrations and Colonialism (XIX – XX centuries)» — Location: Bologne (11.November.2022)
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- The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the reasons for an oversight. Indeed, despite profound advances in historiography, historians of colonialism and emigration have not adequately investigated the Italian presence in the South and East Mediterranean between the Unification of Italy (1861) and the occupation of Libya (1911. My analysis draws attention to two subjects: the first is the relationship between colonialism and migration, although not in the sense of a subordinate, unidirectional and unequivocal relationship (mother country vs colony; elite vs masses). The second is the impact mass migration has on the countries of settlement that have been colonised by the countries from which migrants come from. Specifically, the aim is to assess the effects of the Capitulations on the socio-cultural dynamics underlying between the local foreign populations, from a bottom-up perspective. To this end, I will use Egypt as a case study, since this country has some original characteristics: the fact that the Capitulations remained in force until 1937, therefore, even after the British occupation of 1882; the existence of a large, long-standing, stratified Italian colony.
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Paonessa, C. (2022). «Moving on the thread of belonging: fragments of subaltern discourses in the Italian Consular Court in Cairo». «Mediterranean Mobilities between Migrations and Colonialism (XIX – XX centuries)», Bologne. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220441