Flaminia Bartolini Libri

Examines the stories behind such wonders of the world's architecture as the pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China, Chartes Cathedral, the city of Venice, etc.

Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migration regime and on its effects on migrants' lives.