The city of the other

Authors

  • Ernesto Venturini

Keywords:

immigration, social identity, urbanization, multi-ethnic society, modern town

Abstract

In the city where we live each one of us usually goes to those places that have a special meaning. All these places describe one's map of the city. But the use of the city depends above of all on the social standing of a person.Before, it was considered the city map of patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals to understand the impact of deinstitutionalization . Today , it is necessary to consider the underground life of "illegal" immigrants in Italian cities. Their maps describe the social mechanism of refusal or acceptance. This helps us understand how people refuse to budge from their respective standpoints or on the contrary how the identities interact with each other and change. The choice results from the individual receptivity, but above all from human rights policies.

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Author Biography

Ernesto Venturini

Medico Psiquitra

Consultor da Opas

Published

2009-09-16

How to Cite

VENTURINI, E. The city of the other. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 21, n. 2, p. 203-222, 16 Sep. 2009.

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Section

Dossiê Cidades