Pietro Castelli Gattinara is a Research Associate at the University of Leicester, UK.

Offering an innovative exploration of party competition and migration in Italy, as well as providing the conceptual and analytical tools to understand how these dynamics play out beyond the Italian case, this book is essential reading for students, scholars and policymakers working in the areas of migration studies, agenda-setting and European politics more generally.

1. Introduction

Part 1: Framework and Context

2. Electoral debates on migration: a dimensional perspective

3. Local politics, migration and integration in Italy

Part II: Empirical analysis

4. Migration debates in context

5. Electoral campaign strategies

6. Framing local migration debates

7. Controlling campaign agendas

Part III: Conclusion

8. Conclusions

9. Appendix