The general aim of this article is to give a broad outline of the migrant descendant associations in Italy and the reasons for their protests, with a view to understanding their status in society and the reasons behind their decision to mobilize as a movement. In order to describe the events, behaviour and reasons underlying the movement process, the protests will be examined by borrowing techniques from other practices, such as journalism (the 5Ws+1H model), that will be helpful in describing and preparing the ground for understanding collective actions. Several key features will emerge in this analysis, which offers a broad definition of the movement itself and the articulated network on which it relies on in accordance with the recent social movement theories.
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