Category Archives: (anti)racism

Library guide Italian studies. “Italy: emigration and immigration”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (24) Fifth in the series – having been preceded by those on National identity, Mafia and other organized-crime groups, Franco Basaglia‘s democratic psychiatry, and Prostitution in Italy: The Merlin Law -, the guide … Continue reading

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Library guide Italian Studies. “Mafia and other organized-crime groups”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (21) The topic of the first Library guide Italian Studies was national identity, which easily related to diversity, equity and inclusion through the ways a given people defines its collective identity, and what … Continue reading

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New: Library guide for Italian Studies. “National identity”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (20) This blog series, as laid out a year ago when starting, aims among others at being «a collaborative effort to help broaden and diversify both the UvA Library collections and the way … Continue reading

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Stories by migrant women in Italy: A book series

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (14) First organized in 2005 on the initiative of journalist and writer Daniela Finocchi (editor of the volumes listed below) – and supported by the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino – the … Continue reading

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Stories by migrant people in Italy: A book series

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance Languages (10) DIMMI Diari Migranti is the title of a book series started in 2018 to promote the outcomes of the writing context DIMMI Diari Multimediali Migranti which, since 2012, «collects and circulates the … Continue reading

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New book: “Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations: Intersecting inequalities in post-2008 Italian migration”

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (9) The object of a recent event at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Amsterdam – with UvA’s lecturer Elio Baldi, director and writer Daniela Tasca, and the book’s author, Simone Varriale (Loughborough … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (2)

10 Migrant women writers in ItalyEssays, novels, poetry & short stories from the UvA Library Complementary to the previous post, the following list is a first exploration of works – held at the UvA Library – by ten migrant women … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (1)

Migrant women writers from & in ItalyA tentative reading list of secondary sources (open access & UvA Library) The following is a first attempt – built on search actions in the UvA CataloguePlus and citation tracking in Google Scholar – … Continue reading

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