Politics of Recognising Difference: Multiculturalism Italian Style: Multiculturalism Italian Style

This volume explores the Italian experience of immigration and racism, placing it in a wider international and comparative perspective, and addressing the politics of difference that underpin the issue. It explores experience in a post-industrial, declining society, considers the replication of North European integration, multiculturalism, and Catholic church and colonial legacy responses, and provides a model and agenda for research elsewhere.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This title, originally published in 2002, aims to expand and deepen our understanding of the Italian experience of immigration while also placing it within a broader, international, and comparative perspective. The text focuses on the politics of difference that underpin the issue of immigration and racism in Italy, while also addressing the wider field of migration and ethnicity in three ways. Firstly, it explores the experience of immigration in a society that is already post-industrial, undergoing demographic decline, and considering whether integration, the formation of ethnicity, and policies of multiculturalism will replicate North European examples. Secondly, the studies engage with comparative questions concerning how responses are shaped by factors such as the Catholic church or the colonial legacy. Finally, work on the politics of difference, sensitive to local variations, may provide a model and agenda for research elsewhere.

ISBN-13: 9781138734036