L'immigrazione nei quotidiani italiani : sfera pubblica, senso comune e immigrazione

The topic of immigration, has gained space and visibility also in the Italian public debate. Like the specifically political debate, even that taking place in the public sphere and the press is strongly polarized: the immigrant is the angel to be saved or the black soul to be demonized. The paper traces these different images analyzing newspaper articles. The emptying of public opinion has created around the immigrant a symbolic space in which the vision of the present and of the future of democracy is projecte