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The power of refugee artists
un rifugiato in Italia se il fondatore della sua stirpe vi era nato?” (Scarsini, 2018 ) (“in what way can Aeneas be defined a refugee in Italy if the founder of his race ( stirpe ) was born there?”). This tortured attempt to claim that the fictional character Aeneas was not a refugee because of his bloodlines reveals not only the negative connotations of “refugee” for certain readers, but also the significance of Aeneas as a founding figure for Italy. It is hard to imagine a similar critical debate in the United States over categorizing