Lampedusa: From a Fishing Island in the Middle of the Mediterranean to a Tourist Destination in the Middle of Europe’s External Border
(2015) Italian Studies — Vol. 70, n° 4, p. 521-536 (2015)
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- By placing the inhabitants of Lampedusa at the centre of the analysis, this paper seeks to interpret the events that occurred on the island in 2011 — relating to the arrival of 50,000 boat migrants — through the lens of the major local sociocultural transformations taking place in Lampedusa over the previous decades. In fact, a profound change of the island’s geography has occurred that turned this Mediterranean fishing island into today’s tourist destination located at the frontier of the EU border regime. The article will give space to local voices while showing the micro sociocultural dynamics of locals’ responses and reactions to the bordering of the island. In doing so, it will demonstrate not only how that border shapes the lives of Lampedusans, but how the border is itself shaped and performed by local Lampedusans.
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University of Essex Department of Sociology
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Orsini, G. (2015). Lampedusa: From a Fishing Island in the Middle of the Mediterranean to a Tourist Destination in the Middle of Europe’s External Border. Italian Studies, 70(4), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2015.1120945?src=recsys&journalCode=yits20 (Original work published 2015)