Empathic narratives

Study name: Empathic narratives: Migrants and integration/discrimination in Milan

Research project lead: Dr Nathasha E. Fernando

Project overview 

This research set out to explore how immigrati/e living in Milan perceive the ‘migration crisis’ and how they define their own position vis-à-vis the securitising debates and discourse on ‘new migrants’.

The research highlighted how discourse around the ‘migration crisis’, be it of a securitising type or of humanitarian nature, even if built on a call for action and empathy, seems to detriment the narrativity that has developed around the figure of the immigrato/a, holding people who are identified as such in a stagnating, fixed position.

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Study name: Sulla Razza – Podcast

Project overview

An Italian podcast sponsored by Juventus. The series ‘translates’ English terms into Italian that have mainly been used in Anglo-American race-ethnic studies: race, colourism, tokenism and many more.