Moving from the outcomes of a research on ethnic economies’ settlements in a number of cities in the Veneto Region, the article proposes a reflection on the correlation between the most commonly known ways of looking at urban spaces where the immigrants have settled, and on the consequent forms of intervention. The hypothesis of the necessity of a change in the most common ways of looking at these places by policy makers and researchers is introduced as well.
Keywords: Ethnic economies, Veneto Region, immigrants’ concentration, planning, assumptions, stereotypes and research.