Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt

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Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Political Membership and Historical Temporalities in the Mediterranean
	Mediterranean Temporalities
	Teleologies of Departure
1 Extraterritoriality and Migrant Diplomacy in Egypt, 1861–1937
	1.1 The Capitulations, Migration, and Empire
	1.2 Italy in Egypt
	1.3 Imperial Horizons
	1.4 Embracing Community
	1.5 Conflicting Nationalisms
	1.6 The End of Extraterritoriality
	1.7 A Community Inside Out
2 Isolating Time: Civilian Internment during the Second World War
	2.1 Separation
	2.2 Isolation
	2.3 ‘The Continual Vision of Tents. . .’
	2.4 ‘The Right to Life’
	2.5 ‘The Future Does Not Belong to Me’
3 Twice without a King: Uncertainty in Postwar Egypt, 1943–1953
	3.1 Fascist Residues
	3.2 Unsettled Questions, Growing Divides
	3.3 Representing Italy in Egypt
	3.4 Andarsene – Getting out of Egypt
	3.5 Broken Bridges
	3.6 Twice without a King
4 Becoming Refugees, 1954–1960s
	4.1 Taking Sides
	4.2 Placing Italians
	4.2 Conflict Looms
	4.3 Crisis, Repatriation, and Evacuation
	4.4 Becoming Refugees
	4.5 Institutionalising Political Community
5 ‘Leave Us Our Memories!’ Nostalgia, Community, and the Politics of Departure
	5.1 The End of Protection
	5.2 A Fascist Community?
	5.3 Working Materials
	5.4 ‘We Were Treated Like Refugees!’
	5.5 Conclusion: Unfinished Histories
Epilogue: Mediterranean Futures
Bibliography
Index