Book contents
- Migration at the End of Empire
- Migration at the End of Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Extraterritoriality and Migrant Diplomacy in Egypt, 1861–1937
- 2 Isolating Time
- 3 Twice without a King
- 4 Becoming Refugees, 1954–1960s
- 5 ‘Leave Us Our Memories!’ Nostalgia, Community, and the Politics of Departure
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue
Mediterranean Futures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 May 2024
- Migration at the End of Empire
- Migration at the End of Empire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Extraterritoriality and Migrant Diplomacy in Egypt, 1861–1937
- 2 Isolating Time
- 3 Twice without a King
- 4 Becoming Refugees, 1954–1960s
- 5 ‘Leave Us Our Memories!’ Nostalgia, Community, and the Politics of Departure
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter draws together the book’s overarching narrative by examining the regional transformations inscribed in the social and material architecture of the Italian care home, the Casa di Riposo, in Alexandria, Egypt. The institution was founded in 1928, at the height of the community’s importance in regional politics. Designed to house over 250 individuals, its inhabitants were fewer than 20 at the time of writing. Within its halls, it contains a locked and abandoned museum, aptly named ’The Time Machine’, which displays the accumulated objects of departed Italians. Walls grew around the building in proportion to Alexandria’s expanding population. During moments of political revolt since 2011, demonstrators’ calls for new futures reverberated in the Casa di Riposo’s emptying halls. Using the Casa di Riposo as an analytical lens, this conclusion suggests that imperial afterlives, even in states of absence and entropy, demonstrate the contested nature of historical temporalities in shaping migration, empire, and decolonisation in the modern Mediterranean.
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- Migration at the End of EmpireTime and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt, pp. 263 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024