The New Racism in Europe

A Sicilian Ethnography
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-58493-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

In the last twenty years, immigration has become one of the most contested issues in Western Europe. The arrival of Africans, Asians, Eastern Europeans and others in Italy has reversed earlier trends of emigration. Debate, political activity and violence have raised questions of rejection and integration, of anti-racism and the new racism. Studies of these issues commonly focus on political activity and the plight of minorities, but this book breaks new ground in its emphasis on the everyday reactions of Italians to immigration and related issues. Drawing on research carried out in Palermo, Jeffrey Cole considers the role of class, culture, local history and political economy in the ambivalent responses of Sicilians to immigrants. He places Italian attitudes in a European context, and investigates why anti-immigrant politics are concentrated in the wealthy Italian North.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. When the bottom looks down: working-class views of immigrants in Palermo; 3. The view from the top: Bourgeois views of immigrants in Palermo; 4. The politics of race and immigration in the Italian North and South; 5. Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References.