Romanie emergenti. Costruzione di spazi “familiari” tra Est ed Ovest europei

Based on a long-term multi-sited ethnography, mainly carried out between Italy and Romania, but also in England, France, and Bulgaria, this article explores interconnected mobilities through genealogies and kinship ties, thus directly connecting mobility to social organization. We will focus on the intertwining of physical, social, cultural and emotional geographies through the dynamism of the kinship networks of Romanian rudari families, reflecting on practices and sense of interconnected (im)mobilities and their stratifications. We will therefore find the emergence of different and intertwined “Romanias” (in the past and in the present) as well as the construction-deconstruction-reconstruction of multiple borders/boundaries that contribute to continuously making and undoing an “East” and a “West”, and with whom we deal through experiences, belongings and transformations of “our” rudari, also referencing to the figure of Constantin Brâncuşi — himself a Rudar – whose life and work enable a multifaceted spatio- temporal reading. This, in turn, invites reflection on the loss of a refined artisanal craftsmanship, gradually subsumed into exploitable manual labor, first in factories and fields, and today in the migration market.