Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Invisible Cities -- 1 Desert Crossings -- 2 Turin: Work and Its Shadow in a Post-Fordist City -- 3 Mouridism Touba Turin -- Part II. States of Grace -- 4 The Art of the State: Difference and Other Abstractions -- 5 Media Politics and the Migrant -- 6 Other Crossings: Socialist in Fascist Clothing -- 7 Desperate Measures: Immigration and the South of the World -- 8 Closing the Circle: On Sounding Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.