Alfredo Alietti and Sonia Paone's Italian references

  • Goffredo Fofi L’immigrazione meridionale a Torino (Eng. transl. "The migration from the South in Turin"). Feltrinelli, Milano. 1964.
  • Franco Alasia e Danilo Montaldi Milano, Corea: Inchiesta sugli immigrati negli anni del miracolo (Eng. transl. "Milan, Corea: Inquiry on immigrants in the years of economic miracle"). Milano, Feltrinelli. 1975. Reprint Donzelli, Roma. 2010.
  • Franco Ferrarotti Roma da capitale a periferia (Eng. transl. "Rome from capital to the periphery"). Laterza, Roma. 1970.
These books are classical studies on urban marginality in Italy during the Fordist era. They represent a fundamental socio-historical tool for understanding the birth of bidonvilles in Milan, Turin and Rome. In the specific, the analyses of Goffredo Fofi and Danilo Montaldi are based on the collection of life stories of migrants from the South of Italy and their settlement in fordist cities like Turin and Milan.


More recent analyses on urban marginality and processes of territorial stigmatizazione based on qualitative studies:

  • V. Cesareo and R. Bichi (eds.) Per un'integrazione possibile. Periferie urbane e processi migratori (Eng. transl. "For a possible integration: urban peripheries and migration"). Franco Angeli, Milano. 2010.
  • M. Magatti (ed.) La città abbandonata. Dove sono e come cambiano le periferie italiane (Eng. transl. "The abandoned city. Where the peripheries are and how they change"). Il Mulino, Bologna. 2007.
  • F. Fava Lo Zen di Palermo. Antropologia dell’esclusione (Eng. transl. "The ZEN neighborhood in Palermo. Anthropology of exclusion"). FrancoAngeli, Milano. 2008.
  • F. Zajczyk, B. Borlini, F. Memo, and S. Mugnano Milano: Quartieri periferici tra incertezze e trasformazioni (Eng. transl. "Milan: Peripheries between uncertainties and changes"). Bruno Mondadori, Milano. 2005
  • A. Agustoni and A. Alietti Società urbane e convivenza interetnica. Vita quotidiana e rappresentazioni degli immigrati in un quartiere di Milano (Eng. transl. "Urban societies and interethnic cohabitation: every day life and representations of immigrants in a neighbourhood of Milan"). Franco Angeli, Milano. 2007