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Migration of Rich ImmigrantsViews of Migrants and Foreign Residents: A Comparative European Perspective

Migration of Rich Immigrants: Views of Migrants and Foreign Residents: A Comparative European... [When I began outlining the content of this chapter, two descriptions of human migration flashed through my mind. One is ethnographic, the other poetic. Let me start with the ethnography. While doing research in Brindisi, in southeast Italy, in the late 1980s on how political ideologies had influenced economic policies in the area, a successful local entrepreneur told me that he had rejected the suggestion to move his business to the North of Italy. Experience, he said, had taught him that, because of his southern origins, he would be treated as an immigrant, a “rich” immigrant perhaps, but a “migrant” nonetheless (Prato 1993). Personal feelings apart, he said that due to the negative stereotypes associated with southerners, the relationship with his northern business partners would inevitably change once he moved to the North.2 This entrepreneur’s observations brought to mind the poem dedicated to the transhumant shepherds of Abruzzo, in central Italy, quoted at the beginning of this chapter, which stimulated comparative reflections.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Migration of Rich ImmigrantsViews of Migrants and Foreign Residents: A Comparative European Perspective

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Vailati, Alex; Rial, Carmen
Prato, Giuliana B.
Migration of Rich Immigrants — Dec 18, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-349-56675-4
Pages
179 –198
DOI
10.1057/9781137510778_10
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Abstract

[When I began outlining the content of this chapter, two descriptions of human migration flashed through my mind. One is ethnographic, the other poetic. Let me start with the ethnography. While doing research in Brindisi, in southeast Italy, in the late 1980s on how political ideologies had influenced economic policies in the area, a successful local entrepreneur told me that he had rejected the suggestion to move his business to the North of Italy. Experience, he said, had taught him that, because of his southern origins, he would be treated as an immigrant, a “rich” immigrant perhaps, but a “migrant” nonetheless (Prato 1993). Personal feelings apart, he said that due to the negative stereotypes associated with southerners, the relationship with his northern business partners would inevitably change once he moved to the North.2 This entrepreneur’s observations brought to mind the poem dedicated to the transhumant shepherds of Abruzzo, in central Italy, quoted at the beginning of this chapter, which stimulated comparative reflections.]

Published: Dec 18, 2015

Keywords: European Union; European Union Member State; Urban Periphery; Rural Migrant; Foreign Resident

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