The Politics of Recognising Difference
Multiculturalism Italian Style
Published on 28. April 2002
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-7546-1891-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume seeks to extend and deepen an understanding of the Italian experience of immigration, going on to place it in a wider, international and comparative perspective. The text is concerned in particular to articulate the workings of the politics of difference that underpin the issue. Apart from its specific concerns with immigration and racism in Italy, this volume addresses wider field of migration and ethnicity in three ways: it explores experience in a society already post-industrial, undergoing demographic decline, and considers whether processes of integration, the formation of ethnicity and policies of multiculturalism will replicate North European examples; the studies engage with comparative questions concerning how responses are shaped, for example, by the Catholic church, or the colonial legacy; and finally, work on the politics of difference, sensitive to local variations, may provide a model and agenda for research elsewhere.
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Series
Edition
Illustrated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Illustrated edition
Illustrations
maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 221 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1891-1 (9780754618911)
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Content
Immigration and the politics of recognizing difference in Italy, Ralph Grillo; Italy - poliical unity and cultural diversity, Jeff Pratt; racist discourses and practices in the Italian empire under Fascism, Barbara Sorgoni; An obsession with cultural difference - representations of immigrants in Turin, Laura Maritano; Myths and moral panics - Italian identity and the media representation of Albanian immigration, Nicola Mai; the Left and the political participation of immigrants in Italy - the case of the "Forum" of Bologna, Nicola mai; "Gabibbo" and the squatters - who speaks for whom? Alternative and official representation of immigration in Bologna; recognizing difference, reinforcing exclusion - a "family-planning centre for migrant women and their children" in Emilia-Romagna, Ruba Saliah; female domestic labour migrants and local policies in Bologna - the story of a Filipino woman, Elisabetta Zontini; "Toubab" and "Vu Cumpra" - Italian perceptions of Senegalese transmigrants and the Senesalese Afro-Muslim critique of Italian society, Bruno Riccio; "Pacem in Terris" - problems in reading a "multi-ethnic" television variety show, Dorothy Louise Zinn; the colonial and the post-colonial - a view from Scaninavia on Italian minority issues, Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Italy as a comparative case, Adrian Favell; a note on the Italian media, Mariagiulia Grassilli, Dorothy Zinn.