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Mediterraneans
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"Mediterraneans".
People in Motion
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Population movements:
the bedrock of World History
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- Epic wanderings;
- Pilgrimage;
- Pastoral nomadism;
- Transhumance;
- Voluntary relocation;
- Forced expatriation;
- Trade diaspora;
- Travel;
- Tourism;
- Slavery;
- Labour mobility.
Taxonomies of motion
Taxonomies of motion
- Presence or absence of force;
- Motivations an objectives of departure;
- Duration and pattern of expatriation;
- Wheter the place of exile became over time a space of belonging.
"The people in motion brought wide-ranging social changes to their host societies and to those left behind"
Julia Clancy-Smith
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J. Clancy Smith,"Mediterraneans.
North Africa and Europe in an age of migration
1800-1900"
- What? A borderland society forged by mobilities.
- Where? In the Central Mediterranean corridor.
- When? During XIX century.
- How precolonial movements mark colonial State.
The Tunisian Case as a peculiar one. Book's objective
- How Tunisians viewed, lived in close proximity to and interacted with the immigrants.
- How a borderland society came into existence and what that meant for Tunisian History in the long term.
Questions
- Who is a migrant?
- Which approaches best lend themselves to the task of recrating a borderland society over time?
- How did circuits of movements converge?
- What does the word Mediterranean mean?
- Which is the Muslim and Arab role in the building process of the Mediterranean identity?
- How and why did Norh Africa turn into a place of permanent or temporary evasion for so many people from across the Mediterranean?
Yesterday. Today
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Borderlands and Literature of Motion
- Fluctuating limits between something called Europe and the Ottoman Empire;
- Tunisia, an aim for Italian anarchists, Masons, renegade priests, counterfeiters, sailors and deserters.
- 19th century's migratory flows are the largest trans-sea dispersal since the Reconquista.
- Marginalization of migration as a historical problem.
- The binary imperialist division "the colonizer and the colonized" doesn't work.
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Chapters and methodological matters
- Fragmented sources;
- A problem-centered exposition;
- 1st chapter, Arrivals: how did individuals and communities discrimintate between "us" and "them"?
- 2nd chapter, Departures: long standing traditions of travels and movements in the Mediterranean.
- 3rd, 4th and 5th chapter, Making a Living (the work trilogy): what kind of employment did a preindustrial society offer?
- 6th chapter, Justice, Order and legal pluralism: disputes anong citizens, rulers and migrants.
- 7th chapter, Missionaries: literature on global missionary society.
- 8th chapter, Sociabilities: how did immigration affect local and creole or expatriate elites?
- 9th chapter "Khadir al-Din al Tunisi and a Mediterranean community of thought"
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