Migratory Stratifications and Social Ageing. Disentangling Change in a Tunisian Community in Italy
Migratory Stratifications and Social Ageing. Disentangling Change in a Tunisian Community in Italy

Author(s): Andrea Calabretta, Vincenzo Romania
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Migratory Stratifications; social ageing; disentangling; change; Tunisian community; Italy; pivotal; established; outsiders;
Summary/Abstract: In their pivotal The Established and the Outsiders (1994 [1965]), Elias and Scotson showed how the eldest members of Winston Parva community, although sharing religion, skin colour, and occupation with newcomers settling in a different town area, tried to maintain their material and symbolic power vis-à-vis the newcomers, accused of not sharing the cultural codes of the original group and of leaning towards deviance. To be considered part of an «old» family, in social and not biological terms, meant for the old residents «a claim to social distinction and superiority» (Elias and Scotson, 1994 [1965]: 151) that fed several strategies of exclusion towards the newcomers, ranging from gossip to refusal of physical contact.

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