Digital Mosque, narrating Allah in the times of Covid: the case of muslim communities in Italy

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
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Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 193-213 File size 238 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2024-002008
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Drawing on two ethnographic cases, at sea and on land, which concerned dif-ferent countries (Tunisia and Italy) and bring together the results of different ethnographic research conducted on different fields, this article explores the nexus between solidarity and the migration industry “from below”. In this framework, according to the authors, solidarity does not take shape in a mor-al/idealistic frame; rather, it is conceived within a materialistic approach, re-vealing its multiple and spurious forms, as well as its importance for the com-pletion of a multiplicity of transactions and ex-changes through which mi-grants shape their daily routines. The article consists of two ethnographic case studies in which all authors were in-volved, albeit in different ways. By delv-ing into the specificities of the different ethnographic fields, the authors come to define “interested solidarity” as a set of material practices that can be con-figured both as constitutive of a social bond and as a set of capacitive practic-es, which allow people to concretely exercise their rights, even in hostile con-texts or crossed by violent racialisation dynamics.

Keywords: solidarities; social practices; migration industry; border; agricul-ture.

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, La Moschea Digitale, raccontare Allah nei tempi del Covid: il caso delle comunità musulmane in Italia in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 2/2024, pp 193-213, DOI: 10.3280/MM2024-002008