A taste of “Brownies”: Shifting color lines among Indian diasporas in southern Europe

Bonfanti, Sara

doi:10.1080/21931674.2017.1360034

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“…Researchers describe a situation of ‘fragmented integration’ for the Indian immigrant community, such that economic engagement can be achieved but social, cultural and political inclusion is thwarted by discrimination, segregation and slow and complex citizenship regulations (Garha & Paparusso, 2018). Many have noted the nature and extent of racism, racialization, exclusion, prejudice and discrimination experienced by Indian immigrants in Italy in both everyday and formal domains (see Bonfanti, 2017). It is against this national and local backdrop that we explore Leela's experiences.…”

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Migrant youth ‘between mobilities’: Sessility as a working concept

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Raffaetà

2021

Global Networks

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Conventionally, young people today are seen to be benefited by opportunities for mobility and disadvantaged by staying in place. We seek to advance critiques of this binarism by exploring the mobility and attachment aspirations and experiences of the 1.5 generation: those who migrate as children accompanying their parents. Building on calls to better understand the complexity of both mobility and staying in place for migrant youth, we analyse the experience and aspirations of a young Italian woman of Indian background who finds herself ‘between mobilities’, navigating her life amidst her parents’ migration and settlement plans and her own aspirations for both mobility and emplaced belonging. We introduce the concept of ‘sessility’, taken from plant biology, to explore how forms of mobility and agency can be enacted in place, depending on the extent to which the environment supports capacities and aspirations.

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Migrant youth ‘between mobilities’: Sessility as a working concept

Harris

Raffaetà

2021

Global Networks

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“…Their lived experiences of cross-border love relations (Constable, 2005) may yield more inclusive possibilities to imagine, anticipate and aspire to. This is especially true in a nation-country like Italy, which still perceives itself as white and autochthonous, and where accommodating migrants is a latent emergency rather than the normalcy of contemporary multicultural social life) (Bonfanti, 2017).…”

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Where do we go from here? Exploring the future of mixed families between Italy and South Asia

Bonfanti

2021

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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Family labor migration from South Asia to Europe is often framed as proceeding in a predictable pattern of “male first-time migrant, ethnic marriage and spouse reunion.” Migration to Northern Italy is no exception. Primary data from recent ethnographic fieldwork reveal a slow rise in mixed South Asian–Italian couples, which might bring into question the quandaries they face in raising children. This article considers the daily struggles in conjugal and parental relations in mixed-culture households formed by spouses one of whom is from a South Asian background, and the other is an Italian “native.” Applying intersectional analysis to the life stories and aspirations of such cross-cultural new generations allows for revisiting the commonplace view of South Asia–Europe intimate links.

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A taste of “Brownies”: Shifting color lines among Indian diasporas in southern Europe

Cited by 2 publications

References 30 publications

Migrant youth ‘between mobilities’: Sessility as a working concept

Migrant youth ‘between mobilities’: Sessility as a working concept

Where do we go from here? Exploring the future of mixed families between Italy and South Asia

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