University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses March 2015 On Belonging, Difference and Whiteness: Italy's Problem with Immigration Flavia Stanley University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Inequality and Stratification Commons, Other International and Area Studies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Stanley, Flavia, "On Belonging, Difference and Whiteness: Italy's Problem with Immigration" (2015). Doctoral Dissertations. 327. https://doi.org/10.7275/6466436.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/327 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ON BELONGING, DIFFERENCE AND WHITENESS: ITALY’S PROBLEM WITH IMMIGRATION A Dissertation Presented by FLAVIA M. STANLEY Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2015 Department of Anthropology © Copyright by Flavia M. Stanley 2015 All Rights Reserved ON BELONGING, DIFFERENCE AND WHITENESS: ITALY’S PROBLEM WITH IMMIGRATION A Dissertation Presented by FLAVIA M. STANLEY Approved as to style and content by: _______________________________________ Elizabeth Krause, Chair _______________________________________ Julie Hemment, Member _______________________________________ Agustin Lao-Montes, Member ____________________________________ Tom Leatherman, Department Chair Department of Anthropology DEDICATION To the memory of my parents, Timothy W. Stanley and Nadegsda Leon Stanley.