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Focusing on the economic migration of Macedonian-speaking Muslims from North Macedonia to Italy, this study examines shifting everyday lives across transnational contexts. The title, Spaghetti with Ajvar serves as a metaphor for the immersion and mutual influence of cultural practices from the places of origin and settlement. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2006 and 2014, with a return visit in 2022, it analyses migration experiences with particular attention to gender and intergenerational dynamics. Tracing translocal practices as they unfold over time, the book captures a specific moment in the lives of the Torbeši, reflecting both social change and the researcher's own embodied experience.
Despite being originally published a decade ago, the book continues to address important questions and offers unique ethnographic perspectives. Robert Rydzewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska’s work makes a significant contribution to the study of migration and Balkan studies, as well as the manifestations of contemporary Islam and European Islam. Her work demonstrates her erudition and, above all, her status as an excellent ethnographer and experienced anthropologist. Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include fieldwork methods, critical heritage studies, ethnographic and sociolinguistic aspects of migration and diaspora.
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1. Migration and Mobility in Social Studies: Contribution to Discussion
Chapter 2. The Method: Woman, Researcher, Foreigner, Mother: Questions of Ethics and Relations of Power
Chapter 3. Fields
Chapter 4. People: Macedonian-speaking Muslims/Torbeši/Našinci
Chapter 5. The ‘Local Islams’ of Macedonia
Chapter 6. Gurbet, Pečalba, Iseluvanje: Historical and Social Changes of Mobility Patterns in Macedonia
Chapter 7. From Emigration to Immigration: The Specificity of Italy
Chapter 8. Gendered Experiences of Migration
Chapter 9. Translocal Everyday Life: Dolu
Chapter 10. Translocal Everyday Life: Italija
Chapter 11. On Mobilization and Social Change
Conclusion
Epilogue: An Ethnographic Revisit
References
Index