Federico Damonte
The aim of this article is to contribute to the study of the way in which migrants are represented in Italian media, through an analysis of the use of images of migrants in some issues of La Nazione newspaper, based in Florence. I must immediately point out that this is very much a preliminary, programmatic work, and a much larger empirical investigation is needed in order to reach wider and more solid conclusions. I thought it might be useful, though, to present this research here in this initial state as it focuses on one aspect of anti-migrant discourse, which is not much discussed in the public debate on migration in contemporary Italy…