Social phenomena of individual mobility and migrations represent central processes in the transformation of contemporary Western societies. Social dimensions interested by migrations are multiple and their investigation asks for a critical approach on both cognitive aspects, produced in common sense and in social sciences, and concrete contexts of social life. Our essay points in evidence some social spheres that are remarkable for the analysis of relationships among local population and migrants, recognizing a centrality to employment relations and public politics acted towards the citizenship and the urban life of migrants that live in the Italian society.

Gennaro Avallone, Raffaele Rauty, in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 83/2007, pp. 41-60, DOI: