When will new generations of Afro-Italians finally be heard and recognized as full and active members of Italy’s culture and society?

Gabriele Lazzari
Gabriele Lazzari is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University. His research focuses on the contemporary novel and on literature of migration, particularly in relation to the resurgence of a new global realism. His articles and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Comparative Literature, Research in African Literatures, and Comparative Literature Studies.
Somalia and Italy across a Century
The United Nations Refugee Agency has calculated that, by the end of 2016, there were almost 68 million “persons of concern” (refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable groups) living on this ...