2020
DOI: 10.14321/nortafristud.20.1-2.0027
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Colonial Subjects and Others: Racism and Inequality during Italian Rule in the Horn of Africa

Abstract: In the history of the Horn of Africa, Italian colonial rule came as a new chapter of a long history of foreigner rulers, conflicts, and translocal exchanges. Yet, Italian colonialism left long-lasting traces in the memory of the inhabitants of Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The present contribution deals with citizenship policy in the territories of the Horn of Africa during Italian rule (1880s– 1940s). It centers on the racialized and instrumentalized form of citizenship, i.e., colonial subjecthood (sudditan… Show more

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“…Many of these reforms were laid out in the Ordinamento giudiziario of 1908, which is also a fundamental text for citizenship relations in the colony and in the history of the Horn of Africa. 9 Article 2 of this legal text defined the legal status of those colonial inhabitants who were not Italian citizens (or Europeans). This definition made two points clear: firstly, the majority of the colonial population was made up of subjects and subjecthood became the legal status of the 'natives'; secondly, the colonial population also consisted of a conspicuous number of people who were not exactly of local origin, but hailed from neighbouring regions, especially from the Ottoman Empire.…”
Section: Enemy Aliens In Colonial Eritreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many of these reforms were laid out in the Ordinamento giudiziario of 1908, which is also a fundamental text for citizenship relations in the colony and in the history of the Horn of Africa. 9 Article 2 of this legal text defined the legal status of those colonial inhabitants who were not Italian citizens (or Europeans). This definition made two points clear: firstly, the majority of the colonial population was made up of subjects and subjecthood became the legal status of the 'natives'; secondly, the colonial population also consisted of a conspicuous number of people who were not exactly of local origin, but hailed from neighbouring regions, especially from the Ottoman Empire.…”
Section: Enemy Aliens In Colonial Eritreamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the meantime, historians known outside academia like Giorgio Rochat (2005), as well an entire generation of scholars, began to integrate the issue of colonialism in their studies and publications. Examples of the varieties of backgrounds and approaches would include Nicola Labanca (1993Labanca ( , 2002 Giulia Barrera (2005Barrera ( , 2008, Nicola Camilleri (2018Camilleri ( , 2020, Olindo de Napoli ( 2009) and Giuseppe Maria Finaldi (2009Finaldi ( , 2017, among many others that have contributed to a new centrality and new interpretation of Italian colonialism.…”
Section: A Bridge Between Historiography and Other Disciplinesmentioning
confidence: 99%