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Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices: Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy: 28 (New Directions in Anthropology, 28)

Perņ, Davide

 
9781845451578: Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices: Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy: 28 (New Directions in Anthropology, 28)

Synopsis

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 ideas have for the incorporation of migrants in Europe.

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About the Author

Davide Perņ, is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham and Research Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Oxford University) where he previously worked. He has conducted ethnographic research on migration and politics in Italy, Spain and the UK.

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