Descrizione del progetto
Connessioni tra memoria, migrazione e solidarietà
La memoria svolge un ruolo fondamentale nel contesto della migrazione e nel modo in cui gli individui e le società costruiscono solidarietà e partecipazione. Per le persone in esilio che si confrontano con ambienti nuovi e spesso ostili, la memoria è utile per mantenere vivi i legami transnazionali e per plasmare inoltre le loro identificazioni collettive. In questo contesto, il progetto MEMODIAS, del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, esaminerà il funzionamento della memoria nel mantenimento dei legami transnazionali e nel rafforzamento della solidarietà tra diverse diaspore. L’attenzione sarà rivolta ai ricordi di conflitto, esilio e ritorno nelle diaspore di afghani e somali in Italia e negli Stati Uniti. Servendosi di pratiche di autonarrazione, MEMODIAS rafforzerà la capacità dei partecipanti di essere attivi nei processi decisionali e prevedere nuove possibilità future di coabitazione.
Obiettivo
Memory is a crucial resource for people in exile who have to deal with new and often hostile environments, since it keeps their transnational ties alive and shapes their collective identifications. Memory, however, is today increasingly subject to challenges, rearticulations and negotiations, especially when it refers to individual and collective practices, more and more confronted with global dynamics. MEMODIAS aims to explore these dynamics through an ethnographic inquire on the memory of conflict, exile and return among Afghan and Somali diasporas in Italy and the USA. Reflecting my previous mixed experience as researcher and practitioner in the field of migrant memories, my project enhances the implementation of participatory research methods and practices which can facilitate a circularity between the researcher and diaspora members as “co-researchers”. While exploring the interdiasporic forms of mnemonic solidarity in the transnational space between US and Italy, the project’s scientific and societal impacts will be strictly entangled and interdependent. MEMODIAS overall theoretical framework draws from Memory and Migration/Diaspora studies, Media, Art and Performance studies, Cultural studies, and Critical Global studies, subjects of my training activities which will include Gender studies. Research methods will be particularly focused on self-narrative practices. This approach will enhance the capability of participants to become active in policy making processes and to envisage new future possibilities of cohabitation. MEMODIAS dissemination and communication target scholars (through scientific publications), diasporas members, policy makers, journalists, educators and a broader public (through social media, civic events and an educational toolkit). Inspired by two brilliant supervisors while working in stimulating research environments in Italy and the US, I will have the chance to broaden my network and build future collaborations.
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinatore
20122 Milano
Italia