Ethnoscape, migratory stratifications and multicultural neighbourhoods

Based on various ethnographic research conducted over the years in some multiethnic neighbourhoods in northern Italy (mid-size town Padua and metropolitan area Milan), the objective of chapter is to highlight the characteristics of the changes that have occurred within these spaces and to outline a synthetic framework of interethnic coexistence that has been built and layered in the analysed contexts. The concept of migratory stratification will be used consistently in the analysis: focusing on how various population movements have succeeded each other in a specific context (in this case specific urban areas), the aim is to practice a processual, relational, and anti-essentialist sociology that manages to grasp the connections between migratory stratification and structural processes of economic, political, and social nature; between stratification of migratory processes and stratification of narratives on migrations; between migratory stratification and social and urban change; between dynamics unfolding at micro, meso, and macro levels.