"Productive Immigration": Reverse Colloquial on Migration and Development Cooperation

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Author/s Selenia Marabello
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/45
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 117-131 File size 539 KB
DOI 10.3280/SC2013-045008
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Looking at a co-development project involving Ghanaian migrants to Italy, this article explores the communication processes and identity construction among this group of migrants. Embodying the "migration which produces", they may question some common stereotypes concerning migrants, paradoxically strengthening other current public rhetorics in which only the economic producer can be a welcome migrant. The analysis of discourses shows the Ghanaian migrants’ ability to assume dominant rhetorics and descriptive categories with the aim of changing the current Italian media images-discourses and, thereby, gaining access to national and transnational public spheres.

Keywords: Ghana, migration, identity, media, stereotypes, development.

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Selenia Marabello, "L’immigrazione che produce": controcampi discorsivi sulla migrazione e la cooperazione allo sviluppo in "SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE " 45/2013, pp 117-131, DOI: 10.3280/SC2013-045008