This book focuses on the politics of national identity in Italy.

Eva Garau is a Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

1. Introduction 2. Italian intellectuals and the 'death of the homeland'. Antagonistic identities in Italy since 1945 3. 'Nobody is a foreigner within the Church'. Selective solidarity as a criterion to grant citizenship 4. 'Masters in our own land': the Northern League's rhetoric on identity and otherness 5. Citizens of the world: a seemingly proletarian approach to immigration 6. Lampedusa: the promised land or a gateway to Europe?