Eleanor Paynter: "Emergency Imaginaries, Contested Witnessing, and Migrant Rights in Transnational Italy"
Our contemporary age of migration is also a time of “crisis,” with movements from global south to global north perpetually framed in emergency terms. In Italy, these discourses are intimately tied not only to arrivals by sea, but to racialized notions of national identity and a general lack of reckoning with colonial history.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room