ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 explores how intimacies of exclusion are enacted and embodied in and through Northern Italians’ narrative practices around migrants and migration issues. These racialized narratives were collected in two types of settings: 1) during interviews with speech participants from various sociocultural backgrounds, such as doctors and nurses, business executives, and ordinary speakers more generally and 2) in Liga Veneta Repubblica’s political speeches and rallies. These racialized stories have been emerging in Northern Italy at various levels, not only explicitly, but also covertly. Through a close analysis of transcripts stemming from these data, this chapter thus shows how intimacies of exclusion emerge and solidify, and thus can be legitimized, in Northern Italy and in Italy more generally.
