Autore
Langrognet, Fabrice

Titolo
The crossings of Luigi Pirolli, a migrant among others (1886-1953)
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2019 - Volume: 162 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 831 - Pagina finale: 857

Historical studies attempting to understand the migrant experience at theindividual level remain scarce. This article offers one contribution to remedyingthis historiographical deficit, by engaging in a transnational analysis ofthe life course of one migrant, Luigi Pirolli (1886-1953). At the time of hisbirth in the heart of the Italian Mezzogiorno, Luigi’s family already had amigration culture. Combined with a particular nexus of constraints and opportunities,this allowed him to migrate at fifteen to the Plaine-Saint-Denis, aworking-class, all-migrant suburb of Paris. This is where he would eventuallypass away after two world wars, several return-trips, and various oscillationsof his national, ethnic, and class identifications. From the reconstruction ofLuigi’s itinerary, made possible by a great variety of archival and oral sources,emerges a narrative in which contingent and singular mechanisms of socialand cultural differentiation are brought back to the forefront of migrationhistory.



SICI: 0301-6307(2019)162:3<831:TCOLPA>2.0.ZU;2-J
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