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Migration and multiculturalism in Italy: Conflicting narratives of cultural identity
journal contribution
posted on 2017-12-06, 09:49 authored by Clelia CliniDespite the fact that immigration to Italy is not a new phenomenon, the Italian dominant discourse still treats it like an emergency. This attitude has important consequences for the way in which immigrants are represented in mainstream media and often fuels feelings of ‘hysteria’ about immigrants (Law, 2010: 208). In this paper I will discuss the politics of representation of dominant political and media discourses and will juxtapose them to the emerging counterdiscourses of “second generation” activists who, while refusing to be
called ‘immigrants’, claim their right to representation, and effectively contribute to the creation of a multicultural country.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
SynergyVolume
11Issue
2Pages
251 - 262Citation
CLINI, C., 2015. Migration and multiculturalism in Italy: Conflicting narratives of cultural identity. Synergy, 11 (2), pp. 251-262.Publisher
Editura ASEVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2015Notes
This is an open access journal. The paper appears here with the permission of the publisher.ISSN
1841-7191Publisher version
Language
- en