Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices
Subtitle: Left-Wing Politics and Migrants in Italy (New Directions in Antrhopology)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781845451578
Subjects: Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Political History; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Emigration & Immigration; Political Ideologies - General; Emigration And Immigration; Italy; Political aspects; Right and left (Political science)
Description: "Migration and multiculturalism are hotly discussed in public debates across Europe. Whereas ethnographic research has begun to examine the Right in this context, the Left remains largely unexplored. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Bologna - the show-case city of the Italian Left - this book provides fresh perspectives on how the contemporary Left "frames" these issues in practice and how such framing has changed in recent decades. By focusing on the official rhetoric grassroots discourses, policy and civil societal practices of the Left as well as on the immigrants' own views, this book timely offers a comprehensive, vivid, and critical account of changing ideas about ethnicity, class, identity and difference in "progressive" politics and of the implications that such ides have for the incorporation of migrants in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.