The book delivers a rich ethnographic account of present-day Indian communities in northern Italy, considering their journeys of diaspora as well as dynamics of integration, focusing on the shift from first to second migrant generation with an important accent on gender.

Sara Bonfanti is a social anthropologist with expertise on gender issues and South Asian diasporas. Visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, since 2017 she has collaborated within the ERC HOMInG Project based at University of Trento, exploring the home-migration nexus across European cities. She has published widely in both Italian and English, and recently co-authored the volume Ethnographies of Home and Mobility, Routledge 2020.