ABSTRACT
This chapter analysis the electoral campaigns and investigates how political actors frame immigration across different local settings and election campaigns. It examines the specific frames that municipal candidates mobilize to deal with and to express support for or against migration. Keeping the focus on electoral coalitions and municipal candidates, the chapter departs from partisan dimensional attention profiles to investigate the framing of each issue dimension in public discourse. Subsequently, the chapter looks at each of the six electoral campaigns under study, in order to check for variation in actors framing choices, due to the different circumstances in Milan, Prato and Rome. It discusses the evaluative judgement that actors put forth, in order to elucidate whether opposition and support to migration are framed differently by different actors and in different contexts. In order to elaborate further on the role of party-system agendas, the chapter follows the same approach as for the analysis of issue dimensions.
