TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michelle Reale
PY  - 2026
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2378-0975
SN  - 9783034357098
TI  - Inquieto
T2  - A Transnational Autoethnography of Identity, Belonging and Racism in Sicily and the United States
DO  - 10.3726/b23801
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1523926
N2  - Part autobiography, part ethnography, Inquieto is a moving and original study of how migration shapes lives and generations. Seeking to understand the everyday racism experienced by refugees and asylum-seekers in present-day Sicily, author Michelle Reale delves into her own family’s history of immigration to the United States. Encounters with African refugees in Sicily offer a counterpoint to her family’s experience of migration, highlighting a common sense of precariousness, restlessness, exclusion, and (non)belonging. Allowing for dramatic differences in circumstance, she shows how racism, practical challenges, heartbreak, and political complications influence the life of those seeking to make it in a new country. This is a remarkable new contribution to diaspora and migration studies, connecting human experiences across time and space, and confronting entrenched stereotypes. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in how profoundly migration affects the individual, and how it can haunt future generations.
KW  - Italian-American Studies, refugees, immigration, migration, cultural studies, Autoethnography
LA  - English
ER  -