E Gallo
Biographic Data
| ID | 70705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Gallo |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallo |
| SIGNATURE | GALLO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5105-4947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Restricted learning, engaged students. Understanding the effects of academic freedom violations on youth education and activism
This article investigates the relationship between student academic freedom, educational experiences, and activism within authoritarian contexts, adopting a socio anthropological lens. Drawing on an ex-post comparative analysis of studies on Turkey and Belarus, the research is grounded in in-depth interviews with 47 students (29 from Turkey, 18 from Belarus). First, the study develops a typology of academic freedom violations that students encoun…
Exposición a Altas Temperaturas Y Desigualdades en El Riesgo De Diabetes Gestacional
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
The globalization of care work constitutes a major equality issue in contemporary societies. Although the relevance of religion and morality in constructing/organizing migrant care work (MCW) is acknowledged, their role remains under-theorized, and the debate has mainly centered on secular actors/processes. Yet organized religions carry specific gender/ethnic projects and are concerned with regulating social reproduction. Based on a critical lite…
Rifiutare un illustre passato. Memoria e stratificazioni migratorie nel contesto degli studiosi rifugiati in Europa
Questo contributo analizza il rapporto tra memoria e stratificazioni migratorie nel contesto dell’accoglienza di studiosi rifugiati arrivati in Europa dal 2015. L’analisi muove da due interrogativi interrelati. Il primo riguarda i modi attraverso cui la storia viene richiamata, o taciuta, nel presente in rapporto a specifiche categorie migratorie e relative strategie di accoglienza. Il secondo vuole intercettare le articolazioni esperienziali di …
Valorizzazione e subalternità. Religione, genere e mutamenti intergenerazionali nelle migrazioni sanitarie in Italia
Da tempo il dibattito antropologico e sociologico ha riconosciuto l’importanza della religione nel favorire le migrazioni internazionali. Tuttavia, la maggior parte degli studi si è tradizionalmente focalizzata sul contesto statunitense e/o sulla mobilità della forza lavoro non specializzata, cogliendo raramente il significato della religione nei settori lavorativi professionali. Questo articolo, basato su una lunga esperienza di ricerca etnograf…
Uomini in equilibrio. Migranti, rimesse e mascolinità tra India e Italia
The article analyses the relation between migrant men, masculinity, and remittances in the context of South Indian im-mobility with respect to Italy as a destination country. The analysis captures the unorthodox positioning of lower-class migrant men with respect to social scripts emphasising the hegemonic role of skilled migrant men as leading remitting subjects. The inversion of dominant and gendered remittance scripts through feminised migrati…
The Socio-Cultural Life of Migration Categories
Categories have gained new centrality in migration studies, highlighting the importance of critically approaching policy labels and considering categories as a lens rather than a pre-determined analytical toolkit. This Special Issue (SI) brings together migration scholars of different disciplinary backgrounds from the Global South and North. This article introduces the SI with a theoretically driven discussion of migration categories, hopefully i…
Academic Displacement and the Multi-Dimensional Life of Migration Categories
This article proposes academic displacement as a lens to analyse interconnections between skilled and forced migration, and discusses the policy, work and subjective dimensions of the phenomenon. The analysis suggests that policy construction of academic displacement is framed around a temporal oxymoron between short-term emergency intervention and long-term expectations around 'rescued' scholars' capacity to engage in scientific excellence. It a…
Utility workers
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families
This article explores inter-caste/religious (ICR) marriages in Kerala (South India) and focuses on the meanings and experiences of kinship when the latter is devoid of its expected emotional and relational substance, to become a ‘public fiction’. With this expression, I refer to kinship relations accepted in the public sphere, but which denied affective and material foundations in the everyday life. ICR marriages hold an important socio-political…
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
A broken chain? Colonial history, middle-class Indian migrants and intergenerational ambivalence
The article explores ambivalence among middle-class Indian migrants who return to India after their retirement. It discusses intergenerational ambivalence from the dual perspectives of the relation between older migrants and their parents, and that linking the former to their migrant children today. Older migrants’ transnationalism is an important yet under-researched topic. It offers insights into the temporal dimension of ambivalence: how famil…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
From Gods to Human Beings
Chapter two explores the generational dimension of Nambudiri class engagements with reform movements, and threads this into a discussion of the position held by Nambudiris in Kerala society. It analyses the various ways in which Nambudiris lineages engaged with YKS and YJS and how persistent inequalities within this community in terms of status and health remain central in preventing the formation of solid and longlasting community organizations.…
Some Moments in History
Chapter one sets the historical context in which both nationalist and middle-class reformist movements developed in colonial Kerala and India across caste, class, gender, and religious diversity. It focuses on the reformist movements known as the Yoga Kshema Sabha (henceforth YKS) and Nambudiri Yuva Jana Sangham (YJS) which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century to voice the class ambitions of young Nambudiri Brahmins. The YKS and YJ…
Debts of Identity
Chapter three discusses how memories of the YKS are produced in contemporary Kerala through the material production of diaries and autobiographies. It explores why, and in what circumstances, diaries become a suitable way to narrate histories, the particular relationships they frame between present and past, and how their messages are received by Malayalis in the public sphere. The analysis of diaries is revealed to be important in order to trace…
Family Histories, Reproduction, and Migration
Chapter six discusses how different family models— joint, nuclear, transnational, among others—are linked to class mobility among Nambudiri migrant families. The question of the relation between family size, sterilization and citizenship is analysed to show how sticking to the ‘one-child’ model is made meaningful by referring to a wider colonial history of family reproduction and creates dilemmas in the present. The chapter discusses how historie…
The Illam and Its Dispersion
Chapter four examines Nambudiri houses and the place they hold in the material phenomenology of kinship memories. Houses are understood here not only as ‘private domestic’ places but as domains where families’ engagement with political history is expressed, visualiszd (or hidden) in internal spatial dispositions, in the presentation of objects, in the daily routine, and in consumption practices. Indeed, houses are conceived as sites where kinship…
The Fall of Gods
Interrogating the cultural roots of contemporary Malayali middle classes, especially the upper caste Nambudiri community, The Fall of Gods is based on a decade-long ethnography and historico-sociological analyses of the interconnections between colonial history, family memories, and class mobility in twentieth-century India and in the diaspora. It traces the transformation of normative structures of kinship networks as the community moves from co…
Migration and Religion in Europe
Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour
This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, …
Diaspora by Design? Multiple Allegiances and Belonging in Contemporary Global Catholicism
The article explores the semantic and experiential meanings of diaspora within the context of global Catholicism. Drawing from research conducted in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Turkey with the reformist movement known as the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW), the analysis delves into the broader question of how the refashioning of global religions is transforming the relation between people, places, and belonging and is contributing to the emotional, …
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
L’immigration sud-asiatique
International audience
Village ethnography and kinship studies
This article questions the dichotomy of 'classical anthropological topics/traditional fieldwork' versus 'contemporary topics/multi-sited imaginary' and interrogates the role of village ethnography in the understanding of kinship among globalising Indian middle classes. The argument is twofold. Firstly, I suggest that the current rhetoric on the dismissal of village ethnography in contemporary South Asian studies does not adequately address possib…
Italy is not a good place for men
Immigration from South Asia to Italy is a recent phenomenon and novel in that the pioneer migrants are often married or single women rather than men. In this article I explore the relationship between a 'feminization of migration' and the construction of masculine identities among Malayali migrants from Kerala, South India, who experience migration directly or indirectly through marriages with Malayali women living and working in Rome. The intere…
To define populism
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A broken chain? Colonial history, middle-class Indian migrants and intergenerational ambivalence
The article explores ambivalence among middle-class Indian migrants who return to India after their retirement. It discusses intergenerational ambivalence from the dual perspectives of the relation between older migrants and their parents, and that linking the former to their migrant children today. Older migrants’ transnationalism is an important yet under-researched topic. It offers insights into the temporal dimension of ambivalence: how famil…
Unorthodox Sisters
This article explores the relation between women's active engagement with trans-national migration and transformations in the meanings and practices of marriage through the lens of gender relations and generational change. After reconstructing the history of Malayali migration in Italy, I will show how ideologies and practices surrounding marriage and dowry, far from being confined to one country, are subjects of negotiation between different con…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Village ethnography and kinship studies
This article questions the dichotomy of 'classical anthropological topics/traditional fieldwork' versus 'contemporary topics/multi-sited imaginary' and interrogates the role of village ethnography in the understanding of kinship among globalising Indian middle classes. The argument is twofold. Firstly, I suggest that the current rhetoric on the dismissal of village ethnography in contemporary South Asian studies does not adequately address possib…
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
Migrants and their money are not all the same
The article analyses the relation between social remittances and migrant families through the perspective of migrant elites’ politics of identity in sending contexts. It argues for the importance of looking historically at how competing engagements with migration have led people to morally evaluate the suitability of remittances for kinship well-being. Migrant elites' conceptions of remittances are underpinned by a double meaning associated with …
Creating Gurdwaras, Narrating Histories
The creation of places of worship in the Indian diaspora has received due attention in social sciences. The current literature has rightfully highlighted the role of religious places in connecting ethnic minority fellows across generations, in promoting continuity with different diasporic locations and in allowing migrants to enter the public sphere in receiving contexts. A minor attention has been paid to how communities’ internal differences an…
Academic Displacement and the Multi-Dimensional Life of Migration Categories
This article proposes academic displacement as a lens to analyse interconnections between skilled and forced migration, and discusses the policy, work and subjective dimensions of the phenomenon. The analysis suggests that policy construction of academic displacement is framed around a temporal oxymoron between short-term emergency intervention and long-term expectations around 'rescued' scholars' capacity to engage in scientific excellence. It a…
Utility workers
Diaspora by Design? Multiple Allegiances and Belonging in Contemporary Global Catholicism
The article explores the semantic and experiential meanings of diaspora within the context of global Catholicism. Drawing from research conducted in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Turkey with the reformist movement known as the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW), the analysis delves into the broader question of how the refashioning of global religions is transforming the relation between people, places, and belonging and is contributing to the emotional, …
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families
This article explores inter-caste/religious (ICR) marriages in Kerala (South India) and focuses on the meanings and experiences of kinship when the latter is devoid of its expected emotional and relational substance, to become a ‘public fiction’. With this expression, I refer to kinship relations accepted in the public sphere, but which denied affective and material foundations in the everyday life. ICR marriages hold an important socio-political…
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
The globalization of care work constitutes a major equality issue in contemporary societies. Although the relevance of religion and morality in constructing/organizing migrant care work (MCW) is acknowledged, their role remains under-theorized, and the debate has mainly centered on secular actors/processes. Yet organized religions carry specific gender/ethnic projects and are concerned with regulating social reproduction. Based on a critical lite…
The Socio-Cultural Life of Migration Categories
Categories have gained new centrality in migration studies, highlighting the importance of critically approaching policy labels and considering categories as a lens rather than a pre-determined analytical toolkit. This Special Issue (SI) brings together migration scholars of different disciplinary backgrounds from the Global South and North. This article introduces the SI with a theoretically driven discussion of migration categories, hopefully i…
To define populism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Unorthodox Sisters
This article explores the relation between women's active engagement with trans-national migration and transformations in the meanings and practices of marriage through the lens of gender relations and generational change. After reconstructing the history of Malayali migration in Italy, I will show how ideologies and practices surrounding marriage and dowry, far from being confined to one country, are subjects of negotiation between different con…
Italy is not a good place for men
Immigration from South Asia to Italy is a recent phenomenon and novel in that the pioneer migrants are often married or single women rather than men. In this article I explore the relationship between a 'feminization of migration' and the construction of masculine identities among Malayali migrants from Kerala, South India, who experience migration directly or indirectly through marriages with Malayali women living and working in Rome. The intere…
Zontini, Elisabetta
Anthropos , Seite 729 - 729
Creating Gurdwaras, Narrating Histories
The creation of places of worship in the Indian diaspora has received due attention in social sciences. The current literature has rightfully highlighted the role of religious places in connecting ethnic minority fellows across generations, in promoting continuity with different diasporic locations and in allowing migrants to enter the public sphere in receiving contexts. A minor attention has been paid to how communities’ internal differences an…
Migrants and their money are not all the same
The article analyses the relation between social remittances and migrant families through the perspective of migrant elites’ politics of identity in sending contexts. It argues for the importance of looking historically at how competing engagements with migration have led people to morally evaluate the suitability of remittances for kinship well-being. Migrant elites' conceptions of remittances are underpinned by a double meaning associated with …
L’immigration sud-asiatique
International audience
Village ethnography and kinship studies
This article questions the dichotomy of 'classical anthropological topics/traditional fieldwork' versus 'contemporary topics/multi-sited imaginary' and interrogates the role of village ethnography in the understanding of kinship among globalising Indian middle classes. The argument is twofold. Firstly, I suggest that the current rhetoric on the dismissal of village ethnography in contemporary South Asian studies does not adequately address possib…
Migration and Religion in Europe
Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour
This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, …
Diaspora by Design? Multiple Allegiances and Belonging in Contemporary Global Catholicism
The article explores the semantic and experiential meanings of diaspora within the context of global Catholicism. Drawing from research conducted in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Turkey with the reformist movement known as the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW), the analysis delves into the broader question of how the refashioning of global religions is transforming the relation between people, places, and belonging and is contributing to the emotional, …
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
The Fall of Gods
Interrogating the cultural roots of contemporary Malayali middle classes, especially the upper caste Nambudiri community, The Fall of Gods is based on a decade-long ethnography and historico-sociological analyses of the interconnections between colonial history, family memories, and class mobility in twentieth-century India and in the diaspora. It traces the transformation of normative structures of kinship networks as the community moves from co…
From Gods to Human Beings
Chapter two explores the generational dimension of Nambudiri class engagements with reform movements, and threads this into a discussion of the position held by Nambudiris in Kerala society. It analyses the various ways in which Nambudiris lineages engaged with YKS and YJS and how persistent inequalities within this community in terms of status and health remain central in preventing the formation of solid and longlasting community organizations.…
Some Moments in History
Chapter one sets the historical context in which both nationalist and middle-class reformist movements developed in colonial Kerala and India across caste, class, gender, and religious diversity. It focuses on the reformist movements known as the Yoga Kshema Sabha (henceforth YKS) and Nambudiri Yuva Jana Sangham (YJS) which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century to voice the class ambitions of young Nambudiri Brahmins. The YKS and YJ…
Debts of Identity
Chapter three discusses how memories of the YKS are produced in contemporary Kerala through the material production of diaries and autobiographies. It explores why, and in what circumstances, diaries become a suitable way to narrate histories, the particular relationships they frame between present and past, and how their messages are received by Malayalis in the public sphere. The analysis of diaries is revealed to be important in order to trace…
Family Histories, Reproduction, and Migration
Chapter six discusses how different family models— joint, nuclear, transnational, among others—are linked to class mobility among Nambudiri migrant families. The question of the relation between family size, sterilization and citizenship is analysed to show how sticking to the ‘one-child’ model is made meaningful by referring to a wider colonial history of family reproduction and creates dilemmas in the present. The chapter discusses how historie…
The Illam and Its Dispersion
Chapter four examines Nambudiri houses and the place they hold in the material phenomenology of kinship memories. Houses are understood here not only as ‘private domestic’ places but as domains where families’ engagement with political history is expressed, visualiszd (or hidden) in internal spatial dispositions, in the presentation of objects, in the daily routine, and in consumption practices. Indeed, houses are conceived as sites where kinship…
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
A broken chain? Colonial history, middle-class Indian migrants and intergenerational ambivalence
The article explores ambivalence among middle-class Indian migrants who return to India after their retirement. It discusses intergenerational ambivalence from the dual perspectives of the relation between older migrants and their parents, and that linking the former to their migrant children today. Older migrants’ transnationalism is an important yet under-researched topic. It offers insights into the temporal dimension of ambivalence: how famil…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Kinship as a ‘public fiction’. Substance and emptiness in South Indian inter-caste and inter-religious families
This article explores inter-caste/religious (ICR) marriages in Kerala (South India) and focuses on the meanings and experiences of kinship when the latter is devoid of its expected emotional and relational substance, to become a ‘public fiction’. With this expression, I refer to kinship relations accepted in the public sphere, but which denied affective and material foundations in the everyday life. ICR marriages hold an important socio-political…
The Socio-Cultural Life of Migration Categories
Categories have gained new centrality in migration studies, highlighting the importance of critically approaching policy labels and considering categories as a lens rather than a pre-determined analytical toolkit. This Special Issue (SI) brings together migration scholars of different disciplinary backgrounds from the Global South and North. This article introduces the SI with a theoretically driven discussion of migration categories, hopefully i…
Academic Displacement and the Multi-Dimensional Life of Migration Categories
This article proposes academic displacement as a lens to analyse interconnections between skilled and forced migration, and discusses the policy, work and subjective dimensions of the phenomenon. The analysis suggests that policy construction of academic displacement is framed around a temporal oxymoron between short-term emergency intervention and long-term expectations around 'rescued' scholars' capacity to engage in scientific excellence. It a…
Utility workers
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (9 works)