The new racism in Europe : a Sicilian ethnography

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Label

The new racism in Europe : a Sicilian ethnography

Title remainder

a Sicilian ethnography

Statement of responsibility

Jeffrey Cole

Creator

• Cole, Jeffrey, 1958-

Subject

• Sicily (Italy) -- Emigration and immigration
• Sicily (Italy) -- Ethnic relations
• Culture conflict -- Italy | Sicily
• Sicily (Italy) -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• Sicily (Italy) -- Race relations

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 107

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

107