Narrating Migration

Sabina Perrino is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Binghamton University. She has conducted research in Senegal and Northern Italy on topics such as racialized language; offline/online narratives; intimacy; migration; language revitalization; transnationalism; ethnomedicine; political discourse. She co-edited seven Special Issues for journals including Language in Society, Language & Communication, and Applied Linguistics.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Transcription ConventionsIntroductionGeographical Location: Northern ItalyCollecting Data in Northern Italy: MethodologyCo-Constructing Transcripts: Orthographic Conventions and BivalencyBook Structure - Outline of ChaptersChapter 1Migration and Politics in Northern Italy Introduction Mediterranean Migrations in and through Italy Multiculturalism and Superdiversity in Italy Inclusion-Resistant Superdiversity and Communities of Practice in Northern Italy Intimacy and Intimate Identities Intimacies of Exclusion in and through DNA DNA and Brand Identities in Narratives about Italian Fashion DNA and Language Use in Veneto, Northern Italy Concluding Remarks Chapter 2The Lega Nord (‘Northern League’): Language Revitalization and Anti-Immigration Politics2.1 Introduction2.2 The Lega Nord (‘Northern League’) and its Anti-Immigrant Politics2.3 Beyond the Lega: New Political Movements in Italy2.4 Poeticizing and Politicizing Language Revitalization2.5 Local Languages and Standardized Italian: A Brief Historical Background2.6 Revitalizing Language, Culture and History in Veneto and Beyond2.6.1 the Liga Veneta Repubblica’s Flag2.6.2 Terre dei Dogi in Festa in Portogruaro, Veneto2.6.3 Revitalization of Venetan and the "Veneto State"2.7 Concluding RemarksChapter 3Racializing Narratives: Stance, Scale, and Chronotope3.1 Introduction3.2 Narratives as Discursive Practices3.3 Narrative Practices through Spatiotemporal Scales: The Bakhtinian Chronotope3.4 Chronotopes Through Scalar Intimacy3.5 Racialized Storytelling: Stance and Stancetaking3.6 Narrating Extracomunitari in Veneto’s Health Care Facilities3.7 Concluding RemarksChapter 4Intimacies of Exclusion in and through Storytelling4.1 Introduction4.2 Racialized Narratives in Research Qualitative Interviews4.3 Intimacies of Exclusion in Political Rallies4.4 Narrating Authenticity and Migration in Northern Italian Historical Cafés4.5 Concluding RemarksChapter 5Performing Extracomunitari in Barzellette5.1 Introduction5.2 Racialized Jokes as "Keyed" Performances5.3 Barzellette and Italian Joke-Tellers5.4 Racialized Barzellette in Formal Political Addresses5.5 Enacting Extracomunitari in barzellette in Veneto5.5.1 "In Padua There are So Many Extracomunitari!"5.5.2 "Starting Today, You are Giovanni!":Assigning Italian Names to Migrant Students5.6 Concluding Remarks