Pre-occupied spaces : remapping Italy's transnational migrations and colonial legacies / Teresa Fiore.

"By linking Italy's long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country's colonial legacies, Fiore's book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility. Through an interdisciplinary cultural approach, the book finds traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present. Fiore rethinks Italy's formation and development on a transnational map through cultural analysis of travel, living, and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic, and musical texts. By demonstrating how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations."-- Provided by publisher.

"This book rethinks Italy's formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today's immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. All at One Point. The Unlikely Connections between Italy's Emigration, Immigration and (Post- )Colonialism -- Part I. Waters. Migrant Voyages and Ships from and to Italy. Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: L'orda ; Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette's Songs and Crialese's Nuovomondo ; Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra's Sailing Home: Ragusa's The Skin Between Us, and Tekle's Libera -- Part II. Houses. Multiethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention. Aperture II: A Multicultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio ; Displaced Italies and Immigrant "Delinquent" Spaces in Pariani's Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous' Roman Palazzo ; Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Transnational Homes: Public and Private Acts in Melliti's Pantanella and Mazzucco's Vita -- Part III. Workplaces. A Creative Re-Occupation of Labor Spaces against Exploitation ; Aperture III: Labor on the Move: Rodari's Construction Workers and Kuruvilla's Babysitter ; Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna's Les Ritals and Adascalitei's "Il giorno di San Nicola" ; The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial domestic work: Però's and Ciaravino's Alexandria and Ghermandi's "The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio" -- Conclusion. Italy as a Laboratory for Imagi-Nation: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows.