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Copyright Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienza Politiche Sociali Jun 2016

Abstract

In recent years emigration has become a debated issue in public and political arenas, because of the increased number of Italians who moved abroad. Unlike the public debate, sociologists have not addressed the issue, that remains an almost intact field of study. This paper attempts to systematize the little knowledge and highlight the main issues related to the topic. The first issue regards the spread of two frames by mass media which depict migration only as a brain drain or a consequence of the economic crisis. The second is the historic production which often compares past and present movements of people in term of poor vs. global migrants. The third concerns the division between approaches that deal with mobility and those that study migration, as if they were two different phenomena. The final aim is to provide a more complete picture of the state of the art, and propose some reflections for a better understanding.

Details

Title
La nuova emigrazione italiana: cosa ne sappiamo, come ne parliamo/The New Italian Emigration: What we Know, How We Talk of It
Author
Caneva, Elena
Pages
195-207,267
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Jun 2016
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
e-ISSN
22391118
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1858614799
Copyright
Copyright Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienza Politiche Sociali Jun 2016