Catholic Ethics and the Religious Moral Economy in Neapolitan Migrant Care

Naples, the biggest city in southern Italy, provides an interesting case study for surveying the complicated relationship of power and ethics around migrant care due to its peripheral positioning in the European economic space, on one hand, and as a significant stop in the trans-Mediterranean migration route, connecting North Africa to Southern Europe, on the other. In a nutshell, the city has seen a recent but extensive influx of migrants, but given its perceived dependence on the central state, underemployment and exacerbated social inequalities, the municipality cannot afford to (or does not have sufficient political will in that sense) to aptly respond to their needs, both newly arrived migrants and (more or less) settled communities. Beatriz Gomes de Figueiredo writes.

Danga, Deshbhag o Udbastu Somoy: Paschim theke Purbobanga – A Book Review

Danga, Deshbhag o Udbastu Somoy: Paschim theke Purbobanga, Compiled, edited and introduction by Mridul Haque; Kolkata: Mandas Publication, 2024; Pp: 460; Price: Rs. 650; ISBN: 9789395065634

Danga, Deshbhag o Udbastu Somoy: Paschim theke Purbobanga starts with a summary of Dibyendu Palit’s short story Alam’s Own House. The use of this particular story by the editor is significant because it is a story in the crowd of many fictional narratives of partition, which has the migration from West Bengal to East Pakistan and its consequences as its subject which is also the core issue dealt in this book. Anannya Das writes.