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Mapping Memories, Charting Empathy. Framing a collaborative research-creation project
Author(s): Rossetto, Piera; Melilli, Martina
Date: 2021
Topics: Immigration, North African Jewry, Main Topic: Other, Methodology, Memory, Artefacts and Material Culture, Anthropology
Abstract: This short dialogue presents the theoretical framework used by the two authors – a visual artist and a social anthropologist of Judaism – as the starting point for the development of a scientific partnership. The aim of the collaboration is to explore the potential of “research-creation” (Giacco et al. 2020) to find alternative ways of representing ‘difficult stories’, like those of Jewish migrants and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. Specifically, the authors are experimenting with creative visualisations inspired by maps, in all their various forms and in all meanings of the word.
Mind the map: charting unexplored territories of in-visible migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Italy
Author(s): Rossetto, Piera
Date: 2022
Topics: Immigration, Main Topic: Other, North African Jewry, Sephardi Jews, Jewish Space, Jewish Neighbourhoods, Cities and Suburbs
Abstract: Visibility and invisibility represent crucial categories of analysis in migration studies. However, the multiple manifestations of in-visibility can make it difficult to precisely define them. This article suggests reconsidering these categories not so much in terms of ‘what they are’ but rather ‘when they occur’. By encompassing the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of social interaction and analysis, in-visibility proves to be a viable category to explore the case of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish migrations to Milan, Italy–an area that still remains ‘uncharted territory’ for scholars of Sephardi and Mizrahi studies.