The discourses and stereotypes about the figure of the immigrant?

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Recent developments in the sociology of knowledge and the sociology of culture, with the contributions from ethno methodology, etc. constructionists have shown the attribution of it's meaning to reality. The image of an immigrant, a foreigner is along the normal stream of speeches and gestures that make a collective stand. The negation of the 'Other' often underlies this construction, therefore a result of constant everyday practice and the power connected to it is found everywhere, in every space, without being bound in a monopolistic central hierarchy. In this analysis from the writings collected in the book 'embarrassment' by Kossi Komla Ebri, the 'Other', which is defined through the practices with which we will relate to it, is the African immigrant who lives in the midst of us and is still recognized as different.

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[...] What difference and boundary is fixed? The implication The community, in an attempt to define herself and the world around it, defines the outsider as opposed as a denial of the party that speaks and stands for. There is the norm and the other is all that is placed outside: Said the little girl talking about her newly adopted little brother: do not like going out with him because he is abnormal." "How abnormal?" "Yes! Everyone looked at him because he has eyes like this (gesture to indicate almond eyes) and dark skin, you do not look at me because I'm normal! [...]

[...] From all points of view Roxy was as white as anybody else, but the one sixteenth part Negro predominated over the other fifteen, and made her a Negro. Was a slave and as such goods to sell. His son for thirty-one white side and he enslaved and, by a quirk of the law and customs, a negro. He had blue eyes and blond curls, like his fellow white even the father of the white baby could tell - as far as dealing with it - only clothes. [...]

[...] The Social Organization of Immigration: The Italians in Philadelphia (1980)[24] Juliani, Richard N. Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration (1998)[25] Juliani, Richard N. Priest, Parish, and People: Saving the Faith in Philadelphia's Little Italy (2007) Lagumina, Salvatore J. et al. eds. The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia (2000) Stefano Luconi. The Italian-American Vote in Providence, R.I., 1916- Nelli, Humbert S. The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States (1981) Nelli, Humbert S. Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility (2005). [...]

[...] "Tell me lady!" "There's nobody (emphasis added)?" "Nobody?" Ribka thought to himself: "And who am A chair, a table? "Then he inquired:" Tell me lady, how do you want? Blonde? Red? Bruno? "(Ib. 2004) The Other is therefore "none." As Bauman argues, the other becomes beingnon-approved non-admitted existence a being-who-is-not, an inconsistency. A possible strategy to accept the presence of the Other in society can be so nonmeeting, the non-recognition. One implication of such a construction of the other is against carelessness, indifference toward him. [...]

[...] His relief was tempered by the remarks of the lady friend: "So habitually bad, because these guys do not travel . Moving." (Kossi Komla-Ebri, 2002) "This one is the most common sign language in this process of objectification, where individual differences, that every stranger brings with him, end up being all blurred and erased in a single category. The lady teacher pleaded with her eyes out of frame: "You see, in class we have a little black boy and would like to take advantage of his presence to interculturalism but . [...]