Mediterranean Diasporas. The Migration of Albanians and Gypsies from the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of Naples in a compared perspective (XV- XVIII)

MEDI是一个旨在从新的角度看待强迫移徙导致的少数群体融入社会的动态的项目。由于与剑桥耶稣学院早期现代史教授、研究员、早期现代意大利和欧洲社会文化史专家玛丽·拉文教授的合作，我希望改善我的学术生涯，提出这项创新的研究，提出一些非常热门的主题。通过比较十五世纪和十八世纪阿尔巴尼亚人和吉普赛人从拜占庭帝国到那不勒斯王国的流散情况，这项研究旨在分析这些平行的运动，这些运动导致了完全不同的包容和排斥的动态，获得了截然不同的特权和特许权，以及意大利南部仍然保留着第一次互动的一些特征的永久性。之所以选择这两个少数民族，是因为他们保留了一些有助于比较的共同特征，可以提供对迁徙历史的横断面观察，并打开新的思考点。通过与语言学、人类学、艺术史和移民心理学相互作用的跨学科方法，我将首先分析广泛的书目，对这两个国家的传统代表性提出问题，然后通过深入的档案研究，记录这些存在的连续性及其与东道国人口的互动(巴拉多利德、马德里、那不勒斯、科森扎)。使用这些文件，我将调查和比较这些少数民族如何保持他们的种族认同，最后我将返回研究，使他们的研究结果公开，并使用开放获取方法。除了学术价值，该项目还将制作和传播关于地中海移民的另类叙事史，这在这一时期是非常必要的，但也将在作为这项研究的完整部分的性别研究中使用。

MeDi is a project that aims to give a new perspective on the dynamics of integration of minorities as a result of forced migration. Thanks to the collaboration with the supervisor Prof. Mary Laven, Professor in Early Modern History and Fellow at Jesus College in Cambridge, expert in social and cultural history of early modern Italy and Europe, I would like to improve my academic career proposing this innovative research which proposes some very topical themes. By comparing the diasporas of the Albanians and the Gypsies between XV and XVIII centuries, that brought them from the Byzantine Empire to the Kingdom of Naples, the research intends to analyse these parallel movements, which led to completely different dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, access to contrasting privileges and concessions, and a permanence in southern Italy that still retains some of the characteristics of that first interaction. These two minorities were chosen because they maintain some common features useful for a comparison that can offer a cross-sectional look at the history of migrations and open new points of reflection. With an interdisciplinary approach that interacts with linguistic, anthropology, history of art and psychology of the migration I will problematise on the traditional representation of these two nations by first analysing the extensive bibliography, then I will document the continuity of these presences and their interactions with the host population through in-depth archive research (Valladolid, Madrid, Naples, Cosenza). Using these documents I will investigate and compare how these minorities kept their ethnic identity, and finally I will return the research making their findings public and accessible using an Open Access Methodology. Beyond the scholarly value, the project will produce and disseminate alternative narrative history on migrations in the Mediterranean that is so necessary in this period, but also in Gender studies that are full part of this research.