The new interdipendences between autochtons and foreigners created by the recent migratory flows have produced deep changes in local societies. The paper aims at analysing these transformations in Eliasian key, by a comparison among similar territorial realities on the base of economic and social features (productive structure of little and middle-size companies, politic subcultures, social cohesion degree and so on). What occurs when a great number of “foreigners” arrives in a local society in a brief span of time? Can such changes be read like a reconfiguration of the existing social relations and positions? The answers will be looked for in observing the dynamics of the recent past of some peculiar local societies in Italy. The initial hypothesis is that processes of social mobility can be explained starting from closeness/distance of the actors by the crisis focus: central groups first slip to the margins of society, while traditionally emarginated categories gain importance on economic and cultural level. The reflection will concentrate on two aspects: the relationship between identity and local development and the survival theme. How the social habitus is formed and how relates himself with the building of individual identities and with the process of economic and social development of a territory? The survival theme concerns the adaptation models of the local societies to the change. The survival need is fundamental for the definition of the individual purposes. It is not only a biological need, although important. It is also a need of communities, places, social groups, cultures, styles of life, customs. One acts and reacts because he is afraid that his own world disappears, and when his own material and symbolic continuity is felt at risk. So the survival theme has several meanings. In Eliasian approach, it regards the power dynamics which continuously mould the civilising process. In this analysis two aspects will be faced. The first is the autochton's conception about the immigrant seen as a threat for the dominant order, the building of emotional barriers against him and the stigmatization processes of the foreigners. The second is the vision of the immigrant as exclusive short period economic resource, with consequent risk of ethnic closings and intolerant cultural particularisms.

Reconfigurating local societies: Established and outsiders facing migration process / Perulli, Angela; Valzania, Andrea. - ELETTRONICO. - (2010), pp. 0-0. (Intervento presentato al convegno XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Session 3: "Multiple modernities, diverse identities, and the civilising process" tenutosi a Goteborg, Sweden nel 11-17 luglio 2010).

Reconfigurating local societies: Established and outsiders facing migration process

PERULLI, ANGELA;VALZANIA, ANDREA
2010

Abstract

The new interdipendences between autochtons and foreigners created by the recent migratory flows have produced deep changes in local societies. The paper aims at analysing these transformations in Eliasian key, by a comparison among similar territorial realities on the base of economic and social features (productive structure of little and middle-size companies, politic subcultures, social cohesion degree and so on). What occurs when a great number of “foreigners” arrives in a local society in a brief span of time? Can such changes be read like a reconfiguration of the existing social relations and positions? The answers will be looked for in observing the dynamics of the recent past of some peculiar local societies in Italy. The initial hypothesis is that processes of social mobility can be explained starting from closeness/distance of the actors by the crisis focus: central groups first slip to the margins of society, while traditionally emarginated categories gain importance on economic and cultural level. The reflection will concentrate on two aspects: the relationship between identity and local development and the survival theme. How the social habitus is formed and how relates himself with the building of individual identities and with the process of economic and social development of a territory? The survival theme concerns the adaptation models of the local societies to the change. The survival need is fundamental for the definition of the individual purposes. It is not only a biological need, although important. It is also a need of communities, places, social groups, cultures, styles of life, customs. One acts and reacts because he is afraid that his own world disappears, and when his own material and symbolic continuity is felt at risk. So the survival theme has several meanings. In Eliasian approach, it regards the power dynamics which continuously mould the civilising process. In this analysis two aspects will be faced. The first is the autochton's conception about the immigrant seen as a threat for the dominant order, the building of emotional barriers against him and the stigmatization processes of the foreigners. The second is the vision of the immigrant as exclusive short period economic resource, with consequent risk of ethnic closings and intolerant cultural particularisms.
2010
Sociology on the Move.
XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Session 3: "Multiple modernities, diverse identities, and the civilising process"
Goteborg, Sweden
Perulli, Angela; Valzania, Andrea
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