"Our conversation considers how [Ali Farah's] movements between Somali & Italian call attention to colonial & postcolonial power dynamics & also reflect Ubah's upbringing in Mogadishu, her experiences of migration, her relationship with her Italian mother, & notions of the 'mother tongue.'"

If you're planning a course or unit on Mediterranean crossings, asylum, migrant reception, testimony, coloniality, racial politics in Italy, or migration ethnography, check out Emergency in Transit!

I'm also happy to zoom into your class to discuss 3/

Part 1 focuses on the immediate questions of arrival and reception

Part 2 looks at longer term questions of belonging and rights in an environment nevertheless shaped by emergency politics & the colonial present 2/