Per una sociologia delle rappresentazioni mediali delle migrazioni. Un'introduzione

Bruno, Marco J.; Peruzzi, Gaia

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“…For a long time, migrant people and even citizens who belong to minorities have been labelled as a threat, economic burden, or as victims (Anderson, 2008;Musaro `& Parmiggiani, 2018). In newsmaking, they are often represented in a passive role (unless they are agents of negative actions, the circumstance that turns them into evil figures) and thus rarely perceived as agents and actors (Bruno & Peruzzi, 2020). Against this backdrop, as volunteers, they can instead occupy an active position, helping others: ''The most important thing about being a volunteer?…”

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Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below

Ambrosini

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2022

Voluntas

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Immigrant volunteering is a disputed topic. For some scholars, an important instrument for the social integration of immigrants, while others frame immigrant volunteerism as a regime of 'ethical citizenship' centred around the paradigms of 'civic integration' and 'deservingness'. Our research collected the experiences of hundreds of migrant volunteers in Italy (658 questionnaires plus 89 in-depth interviews) to address three research questions in particular: immigrant volunteers' levels of social inclusion, their reasons for volunteering, and the links between volunteering and other forms of social and political participation. Our findings show that volunteering is more dependent on social integration than on social marginality, represents a way to achieve a higher level of social integration, and can be framed as a way to perform active citizenship and anti-xenophobic claims. In particular, volunteering allows immigrant to present themselves as active subjects, oppose demeaning stereotypes, and express political commitment. Ultimately, this substantiates a form of citizenship ‘from below’ that re-writes the script of citizenship and enriches it with new ideas of entitlements and belongings.

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Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below

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Artero

2022

Voluntas

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“…This study has offered some counterarguments to these critiques. First, in the sixth section we observed how wearing a veil, or being an African young man, is an open denial of both the portrait of immigrants in Italian news media (Binotto 2020;Bruno and Peruzzi 2020) and the ethno-cultural idea of Italianness held by the majority of Italians (Guglielmi 2020). If this idea divides immigrants between 'bad' and 'good immigrants', volunteering also achieves the primary result of showing that people with an immigrant background deserve to be recognized as 'Italians', and that their exclusion from this ideal citizenry is deeply unfair.…”

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“…In other words, some bodies (usually those that are visibly 'foreign') are deemed to be trespassers in a 'natural order'. This perception is further strengthened by the way in which Italian media portray immigration as primarily a threat to national security (Binotto 2020;Bruno and Peruzzi 2020). Against this background, some interviewees claimed that they were fighting against negative scripts on immigrants by volunteering with visible foreign attributes (e.g.…”

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Citizenship beyond the normative script: young immigrants’ volunteering as a practice of ‘citizenship from below’

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Ambrosini

2022

Citizenship Studies

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Immigrant volunteering is usually absent from the debate on the reconfiguration of citizenship 'from below'. Indeed, it has been generally considered a conservative force, if anything, an instrument of fuller integration. Building on 25 interviews with young migrant volunteers, this paper aims to fill this gap. It shows that, even if immigrant volunteering may reinforce some conventional categorizations, it achieves the primary result of showing that people with an immigrant background deserve to be fully recognized as citizens. Moreover, voluntary work appears to shape how young immigrants perceive both their belonging and citizenship in a way that defies restrictive politics of belonging and traditional conceptions of citizenship.

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“…The bibliography on the issue is vast. For an up-to-date critical overview of the international literature on the subject, see Bruno and Peruzzi (2020). 2.…”

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Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

2024

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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.The electronic open access publication of 'Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen' has been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license as a part of the Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805395942. Not for resale. INTRODUCTION . 3another way, that we are human, and that means that we are social, communitarian, moral and compassionate. In the film work scrutinized by Campanioni, Evans, Kocatürk, Hudelist, Raj and Sreekumar, and Peruzzi, Bruno and Massa, we have a clear exploration of the ethical outcomes of witnessing sacrifice, injustice and trauma. As Evans explains, reimagining the national imaginary to make it more inclusive and to bring into reality a more cosmopolitan outlook must be one of the main impacts of films about migrants and migration. However, as Kocatürk, and Raj and Sreekumar observe, films can also miss this opportunity and (self) reterritorialization and self-imposed immobility can often raise their ugly heads again, in the analysis provided by Andreas Hudelist in his chapter. Cinema is 'imperfect', as Campanioni asserts.Within the context of ethics, we could argue that an important achievement of this ever-increasing body of films, television series and documentaries about migration is the re-elaboration of the theme of otherness or strangeness. It offers the opportunity to talk in detail about strategies of othering (see Anisimovich's chapter in this volume), but more importantly, it allows 'strangers' to tell their own stories, as screen writers, directors and actors, or simply as people with a camera (see the chapters authored by Hudelist, Peruzzi, Bruno and Massa, and Trandafoiu and Shannon, in particular). This allows audiences to move away from parochial, nationalistic and ideologized storytelling and adopt multiple perspectives. We become 'us' and 'them' at the same time, we feel what foreigners feel as they are gazed upon and, similarly, we adopt the critical gaze of the stranger seeing things anew. Accordingly, films about migration are films of 'ambivalence', to adopt a term dear to Malini Guha (2015: 26). They adopt difference as a philosophical inquiry but, at the same time, they normalize difference, they transform it into a way of living with difference, while being different. They adopt a pendulum or seesaw approach, refashioning exterior experiences into interior ones, shifting perspectives, allowing viewers the freedom to appropriate or reject them, or even sew them into the quilt of their own lived experiences. And yet, in the same movement, they may perpetuate the troubling association between 'strangeness' or 'difference' and 'anomaly', as Campanioni explains i...

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Per una sociologia delle rappresentazioni mediali delle migrazioni. Un'introduzione

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Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below

Immigrant Volunteering: A Form of Citizenship from Below

Citizenship beyond the normative script: young immigrants’ volunteering as a practice of ‘citizenship from below’

Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

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