Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices

Download or read book Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices written by Davide Però and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.