Autori
Elia, Anna
Fedele, Valentina

Titolo
Immigration, Islamic Radicalization and Security Policies in Italy: Reflections around Migrants' Expulsions for Security Reasons
Periodico
Polis
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 253 - Pagina finale: 280

Expulsions for security reasons, motivated by the risk of terrorism, are consideredone of the most important tools for preventing terrorist attacks in Italy.Since 2015, in the aftermaths of the terrorist attacks occurred in Europe, theirapplication has been enlarged and strengthened, leading to the expulsion of 355people between 2015 and 2018. The paper sociologically examines the profilesof the 105 foreign people expelled in 2017, comparing their main characteristicswith those of Italian Jihadists. The aim is to verify if expulsions are primarilya way to control migration or a tool to prevent terrorist attacks. Deconstructingthe discursive link between migration and radicalization, the paper shows, onthe one hand, how security policies are often used as a rhetoric tool to sustainpolitical discourses of migrants’ exclusion and, on the other hand, how the arbitraryof the definition of «security» is used to hide the discrepancy betweensecurity policies deployed and the prevention of Islamic radicalism, in the sensethat the former do not deal with the real causes of the latter.



SICI: 1120-9488(2020)2<253:IIRASP>2.0.ZU;2-V
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1424/97773
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