Exploring Europeanness in Sicily: Re-Assessing Hospitality towards Immigrants and Newcomers

我目前的工作是探索欧洲地中海边缘的边界和接待实践。我研究了地方实践和政治叙事（围绕热情好客，宽容，欢乐，多样性，欢迎等）与国家和超国家权力结构，社会遗弃和边缘化，外围性和现代性思想，以及重新制作社会和文化身份的过程之间的相互关系。我感兴趣的是，包容和排斥是如何在情感上、政治上、存在上以及在实地参与者（“当地人”和“新来者”一样）的想象中被记录下来的。我的地缘政治优势是意大利南部，特别强调西西里岛和地中海中部。

My work currently explores bordering and reception practices at Europe's Mediterranean edge. I examine the interrelatedness of local praxis and political narratives (around hospitality, tolerance, conviviality, diversity, welcome, etc.) with national and supra-national structures of power, social abandonment and marginalization, ideas of peripherality and modernity, and processes of re-making social and cultural identities. I am interested in how inclusion and exclusion are inscribed affectively, politically, existentially, and in the imaginaries of people involved on the ground ('locals' and 'newcomers' alike). My geo-political vantage point is southern Italy, with a particular emphasis on Sicily and the Central Mediterranean.