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Introduction

Political Membership and Historical Temporalities in the Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2024

Joseph John Viscomi
Affiliation:
Birkbeck, University of London
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The Introduction proposes that a microhistorical lens on the departure of over 40,000 Italians from Egypt after the Second World War helps us to understand how historical temporalities and political membership shape migrant departures. It takes as its starting point the question of the memory of Italian departures from Egypt among Egyptian migrants in contemporary Italy. It frames the book’s argument in relation to ideas about historical time and conflicting notions of the Italian population in Egypt as ’out of time’, demonstrating that a history of temporalities which focuses on the future, present, and past can shed new light on processes of migration in the Mediterranean. It then articulates how political membership, as an encompassing concept functioning within these temporal frameworks, illustrates the construction of the categories normally ascribed to migrants and migrant communities in and beyond the Mediterranean. Finally, it draws these theoretical and methodological threads together to rethink periodisations of European and Mediterranean empires and decolonisation.

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Migration at the End of Empire
Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt
, pp. 1 - 32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Introduction
  • Joseph John Viscomi, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Book: Migration at the End of Empire
  • Online publication: 30 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009473415.001
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  • Introduction
  • Joseph John Viscomi, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Book: Migration at the End of Empire
  • Online publication: 30 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009473415.001
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  • Introduction
  • Joseph John Viscomi, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Book: Migration at the End of Empire
  • Online publication: 30 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009473415.001
Available formats
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