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.