ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the ghettoisation of migrants at the local level in the province of Foggia, in Southern Italy, by using the tools of policy studies; therefore, the level of analysis should be the one where the policies are made, that is national and regional. Ghettoisation is used to define segregation due to direct imposition or social changes and with negative and limiting effects for the subjects. Even after desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the disadvantaged socio-economic conditions of the African-American population caused the persistence of ghettoes, where the marginalisation matches with the claim of their own social and cultural identity. The ambiguity is found in the internal borders of these rural ghettoes: the borders of the ghettoes do not exist from the administrative point of view, but they are built by the union of the social invisibility of the foreign laborers and the caporals’ informal power.
