Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion
Edited by Monica Colombo
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 12:2 (2013) iii, 159 pp.
Monica Colombo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Monica Colombo is involved.
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2026 ‘A resilient Europe’? The representation of European society in the national recovery and resilience plans Discourses on Racism and Resilience: Between power and resistance, Lindroth, Marjo, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen and Claes Tängh Wrangel (eds.), pp. 194–214 | Article
In recent years, the concept of resilience has rapidly proliferated across the social sciences and policy domains, with evolving and often ambiguous meanings. Drawing on critical discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, this paper investigates how resilience is… read more
2016 Exploring the intersections between governmentality studies and critical discourse analysis: A case study on urban security discourses and practices Studies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods, McIlvenny, Paul, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard (eds.), pp. 323–352 | Article
In our chapter, we explore how the intersection of governmentality studies with
critical discourse analysis (CDA) enables an empirical and analytical examination
of the ways in which discursive and non-discursive practices contribute to
the rationalities (episteme) and apparatus (techne) of… read more
2013 Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion, Colombo, Monica (ed.), pp. 157–179 | Article
This introductory essay aims at offering an overview of the historical, demographic and economic dimensions of migration in Italy – as well as of Italian politics and migration-related legislation. Based on statistics, research reports, and existing Italian and international literature on… read more
2013 Continuity and change in anti-immigrant discourse in Italy: An analysis of the visual propaganda of the Lega Nord Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion, Colombo, Monica (ed.), pp. 180–202 | Article
Anti-immigrant political arguments have long been at the centre of the campaigning of the Lega Nord (the Northern League), the Italian extreme-right secessionist party. The paper analyses posters from political campaigns between 2001 and 2008 in order to detect similarities and differences… read more