Border Heritage - Migration and Displaced Memories in Trieste

This book takes the city of Trieste as a starting point to think critically and comparatively about migration, border regimes, and memories of displacement.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Trieste, a Border Area
Chapter 1: Refugees Welcome, Preferably Women: Migrants from Ukraine (2022-)
Story of Tatiana
Open Borders
Gender Issues
True and Bogus Refugees
Migrant Women between East and West
Chapter 2: Game Over? Asylum Seekers via the Balkan Route (2015-)
Story of Abdul
Arriving in Europe
The Balkan Circuit and Network
Different Scales of Solidarity
Changes in "Borderism"
Minors, The Only Way In
Chapter 3: Yugoslavian Assemblage: Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia (1990s-early 2000s)
Story of Arbnore
The Fall of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Grassroots Hospitality
Humanitarianism
Changing Regime
Old and New Europe-Bound Assemblages
Chapter 4: The "Exodus". Displaced Italians from Istria and Dalmatia (1945-1965)
Story of Rita
New Borders and Refugee Relocation
From Exiles to Refugees
In-between Nostalg(Istr)ia
Chapter 5: Borderscape
Refugee Spaces
The Great Human Hub
The Silos and Other Past Refugee Centers
Then and Now: An (im)possible Comparison?
Public Spaces and Emplacement
Chapter 6: Abandoned Things
No Stuff, No Name
Warehouse 18, The Cemetery of Things
Border Archive
Chapter 7: Bordering to Remember: A Critical Approach
Resurfacing Memories
The Past is a Foreign Country
From a Displaced Memory to a Memory of Displacement
Memories United by Humanitarian Reason
Towards some Conclusions
Fuzzy Heritage
References
About the Author

About the author

Roberta Altin is associate professor of cultural anthropology in the Department of Humanities, University of Trieste.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta Altin
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2024
• EAN: 9781666949490
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-949-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Italy, Trieste, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Population & demography, Population and Demography