From Italy to England where I have graduated in science of education for then stumbling into Applied Linguistic and ending in linguistics ethnography once arrived in the Netherlands in 2002. At present engaged in a continuous dialogue about asylum seekers , regimentation coming through integration testing as well as basically trying to de-construct the myth that democracy and neo-liberalism have led us to a fairer society, which I define instead - following Baumann - una societa' dello scarto (a society that produces trash) out of its embedded normativity.