In the case study here presented, the author shows that the negative social connotation associated with a primary school in the periphery or Rome (where more than 80% pupils have a non-Italian citizenship) was first "ethnicized" in numerical terms and then transformed into a question of national identity,via the efforts of various interested parties and institutions: the "local moms", the school management team, the regional director of education, a member of the Italian parliament and the minister for public education.

Vereni, P. (2014). Foreign pupils, bad citizens: the public construction of difference in a Roman school. In B. Thomassen, I. Clough Marinaro (a cura di), Global Rome: changing faces of the eternal city (pp. 99-113). Bloomington & Indiana : Indiana University Press.

Foreign pupils, bad citizens: the public construction of difference in a Roman school

VERENI, PIETRO
2014-01-01

Abstract

In the case study here presented, the author shows that the negative social connotation associated with a primary school in the periphery or Rome (where more than 80% pupils have a non-Italian citizenship) was first "ethnicized" in numerical terms and then transformed into a question of national identity,via the efforts of various interested parties and institutions: the "local moms", the school management team, the regional director of education, a member of the Italian parliament and the minister for public education.
2014
Settore M-DEA/01 - DISCIPLINE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHE
English
Rilevanza internazionale
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Rome immigration; urban anthropology; second generations; primary education
Vereni, P. (2014). Foreign pupils, bad citizens: the public construction of difference in a Roman school. In B. Thomassen, I. Clough Marinaro (a cura di), Global Rome: changing faces of the eternal city (pp. 99-113). Bloomington & Indiana : Indiana University Press.
Vereni, P
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