Naslov
Located in transit(ion). Student's practices and experiences in pullman between Pula and Padua

Autori
Matošević, Andrea

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Remaking Borders: First EastBordNet Conference

Mjesto i datum
Catania, Italija, 20.01.2011. - 22.01.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
students; migration; Istra; Veneto

Sažetak
Although students can be defined privileged social category, those young people from the city of Pula (Istria, Croatia) that decided to continue their higher education in Padua’s University (Veneto, Italy), often had to travel in public transport when trying to ‘reach’ their new residence. This, a prima vista, insignificant fact conditioned a set of unpleasant and not always benign situations in long distance bus - e.g. crossing four boarders in one way (Croat-Slovenian–Slovenian–Italian) was not always successful–inevitable communication with guard police, mostly on Slovenian part of Schengen border, often didn’t contain minimal respect for passengers time, self-esteem or privacy, the home prepared food that family ‘forced’ student to take often turned out to be very inconvenient aspect in long distance travelling, the dominating style of music played on the bus stereo provoked them to describe it in terms of ‘necessary evil’ and the co-travellers, mainly incarnated in the so called le badanti (nurturing women working in Italy), did not always turned out to be, from the student’s point of view, the most delightful persons to travel with. That is why actions taken on this only bus line that connects cities of Padua and Pula can be interpreted as ‘significant experiences’ ; i.e. those that determine some of the main elements of students’ transnational identity and in which an ‘creative’ answer to these problematic situations is inscribed, avoiding thus, often mentioned, so-called east European immigrant “rhetoric of the victim” at the gates of EU.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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