Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices

<p> 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.</p>