The Interactional Construction of Racial Identities and Racist Attitudes in Italy

这项研究项目将分析现代意大利对来自欧洲共同体以外的移民的态度的形成。一代人之前，意大利的外流人口比移民人口多。这种情况已经不再是这样了，随着新的少数群体的出现，有证据表明，种族主义在意大利也在上升。这项研究将集中在种族和种族主义如何出现在日常互动中。这位意大利语流利的研究人员将使用对话分析的语言学技术来揭示，通过讲故事和叙事，人们可能会围绕种族主义信念和对自己和他人的刻板印象达成一致。此外，她将关注那些没有达成协议的情况，个人能够有效地反对种族主义叙事。这项研究将在托斯卡纳进行，那里的数据收集将包括人种学田野笔记、参与者观察、访谈和在亲密环境中的日常对话的视频记录。这项研究将是跨学科的，汇集了语言学、人类学和文化研究的视角。它将整合目前关于语言和种族主义的工作，进一步了解个人如何在日常接触中使用语言来形成自己的身份，并强调叙事在理解我们的世界方面的重要性。此外，虽然目前许多关于语言和种族主义的研究侧重于受歧视少数群体的经历，但这项研究将通过关注多数人以及他们如何将自己视为多数人来整合这些研究。该项目的最终目标是想出更有效的手段来反对歧视，并促进移民融入其抵达国。作为与皮斯托亚省和普拉托省社会观察站合作的一部分，这些成果将用于在托斯卡纳创建反对歧视和种族主义的方案。在对教育的贡献方面，结果将被整合到研究人员教授的课程中。

This research project will analyze the formation of modern Italian attitudes toward immigrants from outside the European Community. A generation ago, Italy had more outmigration than in migration. That is no longer the case and with the increasing presence of new minorities, there is evidence that racism is also on the rise in Italy. The research will focus on how race and racism emerge in everyday interactions. The researcher, who is fluent in Italian, will use linguistic techniques of Conversation Analysis to uncover how, through storytelling and narratives, people may reach an agreement around racist beliefs and stereotypes of themselves and others. In addition, she will pay attention to those cases in which agreement is not reached, and individuals are able to oppose racist narratives effectively. This research will be carried out in Tuscany where data collection will include ethnographic fieldnotes, participant observation, interviews, and videorecording of everyday conversations in intimate settings. The research will be cross-disciplinary, bringing together perspectives from linguistics, anthropology, and cultural studies. It will integrate present work on language and racism, furthering our understanding of how individuals use language in their everyday encounters to form their identities, and highlighting the importance of narratives in making sense of our world. In addition, while many current studies on language and racism focus on the experience of the discriminated minorities, this research will integrate such studies by focusing on the majority and how they come to see themselves as the majority. The ultimate goal of this project is to devise more effective means to oppose discrimination and to foster the integration of immigrants into their countries of arrival. As part of a collaboration with the Social Observatory of the Provinces of Pistoia and Prato, the results will be used to create programs against discrimination and racism in Tuscany. In terms of contributions to education, the results will be integrated in the courses taught by the researcher.