Cinesi all'Esquilino. Pratiche di luogo, relazioni situate e tendenze evolutive

A place of frontier and crossing, in constant transformation: these images often recur in the narrative of the Esquilino, XVth Ward of Rome's Capital City. Indeed it has always been a liminal space, of transit, of pas- sage from the city to the non-city. At Esquilino, as in other big-city neighborhoods, shops and businesses have been abruptly transformed into Chinese clothing storefronts unattractive to natives, Bangladeshi food outlets, and Pakistani and Indian internet points. And the displeasure with such establishments, in the Esquiline as elsewhere, is due not only to the suspicion that they are irregular activities (about the source of capital for their establishment and the low profitability that would not explain their holding)