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Sep 04 2021 - 15:30

Sala Conferenze del Mart, Rovereto

Between strangeness and familiarity. Identities and paths of women's lives in motion.

Moderated by Sara Hejazi

Moving, relocating, migrating: the journey from one place to another is not the same for everyone. It depends on where you start, where you are headed, the color of your skin, your gender, your age, and what passport you hold. Those who emigrate not only change their own lives but also the lives they intertwine with in the destination countries, which may barricade themselves or open up, reorganize or become rigid. The variables of encounter, clash, and negotiation are numerous.

Then there are the new generations, who have never moved, yet seem "foreign" and almost have to "justify" their presence in the place where they were born and raised.

This is a dialogue through the facets of migratory processes, particularly those involving women: the lights and shadows of encounters with the other, the dualities of life, and the balance between the origin reality and the reality of everyday life

Martina Cvajner teaches in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Trento, where she offers courses on the sociology of migration and qualitative methods. She is currently engaged in a study on refugees and asylum seekers. In 2018, she published Sociologia delle Migrazioni Femminili with Il Mulino, and in 2019, Soviet Signoras: Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration was released by the University of Chicago Press, recognized with an award from the migration sociology section of the International Sociological Association.

Lucia Ghebreghiorges, born in Italy to immigrant parents, is an activist who collaborates with L’Espresso to give voice to the children of immigrants in the fight for the recognition of a citizenship law that considers their specificity and rights. After various journalistic experiences, she currently focuses on institutional communication and advocacy in the field of human rights. She published the story Zeta in the anthology Future: Il domani raccontato dalle voci di oggi, edited by the writer Igiaba Scego (Effequ).