Abstract
The project proposes an analysis of human mobility between Southern Europe and North Africa during the colonial period, favouring a historical approach that examines them as original (political, social) elaboration processes. Specifically, the research is interested in those migratory flows coming from Southern Europe and directed to the Afro-Mediterranean colonial spaces " foreign " that is, not belonging to the colonial empires of the migrants' nations of origin. Going beyond the coloniser/colonised dichotomy, the focus of the research aims at a study of the spaces of contact, both social and physical, between the populations involved while maintaining a focus on the dynamics of class and belonging (national, religious, racial, political and gender). The time span of analysis includes from the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, which assigned the Mediterranean region a new geopolitical role in global dynamics, to the years of independence of the North African countries.
Fields
Contemporary History
Project duration
01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022 (12 months)
Local coordinator
Patrizia Dogliani
National coordinator (or coordinator)
Patrizia Dogliani
Partnership
École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Funding
€25,000