"Engaging migrants in e-consultations: a way to recognize their political rights and identity", in Angelini A. (2011) (a cura di), Migrants, Cultural identity and Media representation, V ed. International Summer School 2011, Qanat, Palermo, ISBN 978.88.964.14.60.6, pp. 71-103 (The paper was created by the two authoresses together, specifically M. Macaluso wrote the first paragraph and G. Tumminelli the second)
- Authors: Macaluso, M; Tumminelli, G
- Publication year: 2011
- Type: Capitolo o Saggio (Capitolo o saggio)
- Key words: Migrants, Internet, e-consultation
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/60029
Abstract
This chapter reflects on the role of the new media – the Internet and mobile communications – in facilitating alternative forms of public participation that involve citizens and migrants in the policy making. The e-consultation, in this way, becomes not only a means of investigation for informational purposes and data collection, but also a method to foster knowledge of the needs and perspectives of migrants to a given law or public intervention and, therefore, a realistic way that get informed foreigners too, to develop an alternative procedure of social and cultural integration.