Migrant Democracy: Constitutional Promise and Political Struggle in Contemporary Italy DOI Creative Commons

Maurizio Albahari

Society, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 6, 2024

Abstract The article addresses the tension between internalization of a violent border regime intent on preempting migrant arrivals and everyday democratic struggle against that regime. It builds ethnographic fieldwork in Rome to illuminate conflicting political imaginations existing practices already plural, albeit unequal, Italian polity. On one hand, we see bordered democracy. This democracy keeps investing nationalizing itself, by fortifying Mediterranean as lethal shoring up social, economic, racialized boundaries. other there is also an emerging actively works two interrelated fronts: build more democratic, pluralistic, egalitarian polity, reform how legal physical access polity governed first place. argues that, both fronts, anti-Fascist Constitution Italy offers viable ideological framework. More generally, proposes if politics constitutional arguments are produce than rhetorical edifice for democracy, they need attend inequalities life common.

Язык: Английский

Making Migrants Deportable: The Internalization of Restrictive Policies Through Transferred Responsibility and Borrowed Legitimacy DOI Creative Commons
Lisa Marie Borrelli

Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025

Abstract This paper explores the connection between social policy and immigration law as one feature of migration governance to advance internal bordering border internalization. It argues that responsibility for is being transferred: from authorities broader field services policy. allows outsourcing control “new” sectors society. In a second step, borrow legitimacy related actors involved in assessing non-citizens, thus turning reports service assessments made another. work draws on empirical data collected Swiss ( Migrationsdienste ) Sozialdienste whose concerns migrants receipt assistance. Switzerland, powerful stereotypes shape legal residency rights non-citizens by portraying them undeserving welfare, reinforcing strict citizen vs. non-citizen divide. As I argue, connections “workfarist” policies characterize welfare state restrictive legitimate withdrawal residence rendered destitute. The transfer borrowing facilitated this entwinement entrench processes bordering. With formerly less fields now increasingly charged with immigration-related decision making, existing practices are expanded encompass new actors. close different characteristic how contemporary societies police non-citizens.

Язык: Английский

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Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland DOI Creative Commons
Azra Hromadžić

Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 14, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Demographic Projections and Migration Governance: How Law Shapes the Perception of “Too Many” DOI Creative Commons
Dana Schmalz

Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Май 7, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Migrant Democracy: Constitutional Promise and Political Struggle in Contemporary Italy DOI Creative Commons

Maurizio Albahari

Society, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Дек. 6, 2024

Abstract The article addresses the tension between internalization of a violent border regime intent on preempting migrant arrivals and everyday democratic struggle against that regime. It builds ethnographic fieldwork in Rome to illuminate conflicting political imaginations existing practices already plural, albeit unequal, Italian polity. On one hand, we see bordered democracy. This democracy keeps investing nationalizing itself, by fortifying Mediterranean as lethal shoring up social, economic, racialized boundaries. other there is also an emerging actively works two interrelated fronts: build more democratic, pluralistic, egalitarian polity, reform how legal physical access polity governed first place. argues that, both fronts, anti-Fascist Constitution Italy offers viable ideological framework. More generally, proposes if politics constitutional arguments are produce than rhetorical edifice for democracy, they need attend inequalities life common.

Язык: Английский

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