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Migranti senza fissa dimora nella Sicilia occidentale: dalla «doppia mancanza ai processi di resilienza e socialità interstiziale»
2018
The proposal aims to highlight the self-representations of homeless – economic migrant who transform the personal project of a different life in Italy in an exercise of survival. This modifies the perception of the self through the subversion of specific categories of «presentified time» and space de- limited by their skills of perceiving their immediate surrounding space as a branch of their own bodies. The reflection focuses on the effects of experience of 47 migrants interviewed in two different mo- ments and after almost two years after the first interview. The focus of research is an analysis of concept of abjection as self-perception of an irreversible degradation condition that block…
Il Bingo. Consociazioni fra disaffiliati in una sala giochi siciliana
2017
Analysing customers attending a Sicilian Bingo hall, the article identifies a subsidiary kind of sociability for those people who, due to traumatic events such as losing a job, the death of a spouse or divorce, have experienced a progressive estrangement from their usual social life, and the consequent weakening or loss of bonds of solidarity. The concepts of «consociation» and «disaffiliation» are the interpretative frames of analysis adopted by the author to examine the material collected from 30 semi-structured interviews with players selected from a larger sample of 160 frequent customers of the Bingo hall in the city of Marsala. The Bingo hall allows the creation of alternative forms o…