Carol Rifelj Lecture Series: Stefano Mula, Professor of Italian

How (Not) to Talk About Migration: The Case of Riace, Italy

Mimmo Lucano, the mayor of Riace, in Southern Italy, has encouraged a welcoming, inclusive approach to the many people reaching the shores of his small village since the 1990s. For this, he has been celebrated, criticized, investigated, sentenced to 13 years in jail, and then most recently acquitted end elected to the European Parliament. In this presentation, I will start from Lucano’s and Riace’s case to present the current public and political discourse on migration in Italy.

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