"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)

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.