ABSTRACT
This chapter provides examples of urban translocalities established by the Senegalese diaspora in its homeland and abroad. It focuses on the issues of mobility and the importance of the local dimension. The chapter examines an important role in the identification and homing of transnational migrants who, along their routes, strongly refer to specific and locatable places as sources of belonging. Translocalities are more than places for migrant identification— they offer the basis for transnational living itself. Urban translocalities occupy an important role not merely as places of departure or of temporary and long-term residence, but also as places of transit and passage. Zingonia, located between the cities of Milan and Bergamo, saw its birth during the 1960s. It was at this time that work started for the development of what should have become a model industrial town, inhabited by a workforce drawn from southern Italy.
