States of grace
Subtitle: Senegalese in Italy and the new European immigration
By: Donald Martin Carter.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Senegalese -- Italy -- Social conditions.; Senegalese -- Italy -- Cultural assimilation.; Muslims -- Italy -- Social conditions.; Culture conflict -- Italy.; Italy -- Race relations.; Italy -- Social conditions -- 1976-1994.
Description: Focusing on Turin, the northern Italian point of entry for so many Senegalese, States of Grace chronicles the arrival and formation of a transnational African Islamic community in a largely Catholic Western European country. Carter shows how the Senetgalese migration calls into question the European interstate system, the future of the nation-state, and the nature of its relationship with non-European states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1992) presented under the title: Invisible cities, Touba Turin, Sengalese transnational migrants in northern Italy.