Table Of ContentMigrants’ Political Participation in Exclusionary
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Also by Katia Pilati
LA PARTECIPAZIONE POLITICA DEGLI IMMIGRATI. Il caso di Milano (UNAR series)
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Migrants’ Political
Participation in
Exclusionary Contexts:
From Subcultures
to Radicalization
Katia Pilati
Assistant Professor, University of Trento, Italy
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migrants’ political participation in exclusionary contexts.
from subcultures to radicalization
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Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments viii
1 Political Context and Organizations 1
2 A Multifaceted Exclusionary Context
in Milan 15
3 Comparing Migrants and Natives in
Milan, and Migrants in Milan and in
Other European Cities 29
4 Linking Civic and Political Engagement 45
5 Organizational Networks and Political
Engagement of Organizations 58
Conclusions 74
Methodological Appendix 85
References 98
Index 115
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List of Illustrations
Figures
2.1 The political context of European cities
related to immigration 23
5.1 Network of ties among migrant organizations 68
5.2 Network of ties between migrant organizations
and Italian organizations 68
Tables
3.1 Levels of civic engagement of migrants in
European cities 32
3.2 Civic engagement of migrants in Milan
by group 34
3.3 Immigrants’ and natives’ rates of participation
in any political activity, and corresponding gaps
across European cities 40
3.4 Migrant participation in different types of
political activities across European cities 41
3.5 Participation in at least one of the following
political activities by group in Milan 42
4.1 Predictors of engagement in at least one
political activity by ethnic group in Milan 49
4.2 Predictors of engagement in at least one of the
following types of political activities by Filipino,
Egyptian and Ecuadorian migrants in Milan 51
5.1 The organization of events (weekly or every
month) by migrant organizations in Milan 64
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List of Illustrations vii
5.2 Public and political activities by migrant organizations in
Milan. Percentage of organizations engaged in the activities
at least 4-6 times a year 65
5.3 Network characteristics of migrant organizations in
Milan: structural centrality (eigenvector) and number
of ties (outdegree) 70
A1 Descriptive statistics of the variables analyzed by group 94
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Acknowledgments
This book draws upon the support and assistance of many
people. I thank Professor Mario Diani for his support and
constant constructive criticism of my work and his inspir-
ing ideas. I thank Professor Marco Giugni for his encour-
aging attitude towards my work, which has invaluably
sustained me in my analyses aimed at trying to make sense
of the relationship between political contexts and organi-
zations. I am also indebted to Professor Laura Morales,
the coordinator of the LOCALMULTIDEM project. She
has, since the beginning of the project, supported me in
the management and accomplishment of all the eclectic
research tasks. She has always provided very construc-
tive comments and suggestions as a coordinator and as a
co-author.
This work is the result of multiple exchanges with
colleagues and friends. I particularly express my gratitude
to Nina Eggert, Gunnar Myrberg, and Barbara Herman,
and I thank Elena Pavan and Teresio Poggio who have read
large parts of the drafts of the book, while responsibility of
what I have written reposes solely on myself. I also thank
Jessica Svedberg and her invaluable patient proofreading
of my work.
Many of the ideas expressed in this book have been
initially presented in my previous book, published in Italian
(Pilati 2010) and originated from my PhD thesis. The thesis
was awarded the first national prize for contributing to
the advancement of the knowledge on racial and ethnic
antidiscrimination by the Italian Government (National
Office on Racial Anti-discriminations, Department of
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Acknowledgments ix
Equal Opportunities) and by the Conference of Italian University Rectors
(UNAR-CRUI). Hence, I am grateful to the UNAR-CRUI committee for
the prize my work was awarded, and for the possibility to publish part of
those ideas in this new book.
Results presented in this book stem from integrated datasets produced
by the project “Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants’ Social Capital
in Europe: Participation, Organizational Networks, and Public Policies
at the Local Level (LOCALMULTIDEM)”. This project was funded by
the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme’s
Priority 7 “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society”
as a STREP instrument (contract no. CIT5-CT-2005-028802). The
LOCALMULTIDEM consortium was coordinated by the University
of Murcia (Dr Laura Morales), and was formed by the University of
Geneva (Dr Marco Giugni), the University of Trento (Dr Mario Diani),
the University of Bristol (Dr Paul Statham), the CEVIPOF – Sciences
Po Paris (Dr Manlio Cinalli), the MTAKI (Dr Endre Sik), and the
University of Manchester (Dr Laura Morales). The author wants to
explicitly acknowledge the work of the many researchers involved in the
production of the original datasets.
Finally, I appreciate the fruitful exchanges with the editorial team at
Palgrave Macmillan, Philippa Grand, Tamsine O’Riordan and especially
Judith Allan, who was extremely helpful in assisting me in the various
phases of my work.
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