Daniela Damigella

Immigrants and Natives: Ways of Constructing New Neighbourhoods in Catania, Sicily

Within the framework of the SeFoNe project, the research carried out by Sicily’s Catania team concerns mental border experiences in multi-cultural EU regions. It suggests a coming together of people who coexist within the same geographical space but who are nevertheless separated by a myriad of internal borderlines which isolate, segregate and exclude people without any obvious institutionalisation of boundaries. These people are strongly marked and visibly ‘other’ as a result of their different ethnicity, the colour of their skin or their cultural practices.