La televisión como herramienta para la integración social: narraciones y experiencias de migrantes asiáticos en la ciudad de Mesina (Italia)

The paper analyses the use and consumption that a sample of Asian migrants living in Italy make of television, with the aim of knowing the potential of this media as a tool for social integration. For this, we have worked through a semi-structured interview, applied to 60 people from China, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, resident in the city of Messina. The results of the research indicate that the people participating in the study take advantage of certain contents and formats provided by television to reinforce language learning and knowledge of Italian society (essential elements within integration processes). We therefore conclude that television has the potential to be a good resource for social integration, without this obviating the need not to carry out simplistic and superficial analysis that ignore the multidimensional and multidirectional nature of the process of the integration.