... in February 2019. Ashna Ali Activist by Default An Interview with Igiaba Scego Discourses of African diaspora and postcolonial Europe in the Ameri- can Academy seldom include the Italian context. However, media attention to the 2015 17 migration crisis in the Mediterranean has brought overdue attention...

... a European or EU national public. In the context of Italy, public and political discourses related to migration are shaped by the country s position as a major point of arrival for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Immigration to Italy and the racial and religious diversity it represents...

... the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, strewing black and brown bodies from different points of the global South throughout the waters and on the shores of European beaches, call for a slightly different grid of analysis. The migritude boat is a haunted and haunting assemblage of bodies. To be haunted, writes...

... for understanding modernity (Waller- stein 2004, 16–17; 2000, 46). As a unit, the world-system is derived from Braudel’s conception of the Mediterranean as an économie-monde. The hyphen between world and system indicates not that a unitary system has engulfed every terrestrial inch but rather that systems...