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SEARCH RESULTS
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Keywords: 'Alessandro Dal Lago'
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Public Enemies
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1. Facing Migrants. 2. The “Immigrant Emergency” and Its Victims. 3. Democratic Exclusion. 4. A Sense of Hostility. 5. The Logic of Public Opinion.
European policies and Italian laws (1995, 1998): expulsions, detainment centers, deportation, hostility toward foreigners, police brutality, coincidence foreigner-deviant, “penalization” of foreigners. Italian press: forms of violence against migrants as the effects of a situation caused by immigration. The Turco-Napolitano Law: legal and illegal migrants, fundamental human rights and civil rights, camps-prisons, arbitrary evaluations. A political barrier: language discrimination (immigrant, extracommunitari, clandestini, irregolari, third-worlders), equation migrant-enemy (invading our national space), an ontological enemy, modern metoikos. Public opinion, construction of the world, performative and productive character.
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The Fear Machine
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1. Someone to Hate. 2. The Tautology of Fear. 3. Actual and Virtual Citizenship. 4. What Every Citizen Knows. 5. Material Evidence and Criminal Bodies. 6. A New Kind of Racism.
The persecution of internal foreigners in the history of Europe, the nowadays mass media role for hearsay, urban legends, prejudices, and fears to become a social truth. The press as decisive actor for production of fear: titles, generating definitions, news manufacturing, tautology of fear. The Northern League as political interpreter for the voice of the people, neighborhood as group’s identity, new identification, clichés as definition of reality. The body of immigrants: the body to abuse (women), the threatening body (men), a body to be contained, removed, eliminated.
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Society Defends Itself
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1. Legality Pills. 2. Left, Right, and Immigration. 3. The Intellectuals Enter the Field.
Legality as dominant question in Italian politics: the new frame microcriminality-organized crime, deviance-organized crime-microcriminality, immigration-threat to citizens’ security. The left policy: social and cultural reactions, political-ideological Northern League legitimation, relation economic transformations-legal conditions of people. New ethics and cultural tautology of fear: deviants are exclusively responsible for what befalls them, new acting cycle journalists-politicians, citizens-imprenditori morali, politicians-journalists. War evacuee and economic evacuee.
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Scientists and Immigrants
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1. Science, Opinions, Immigration. 2. The Rhetorics of Immigration. 3. Culture Has Nothing to Do with It.
Scientific discourse, public opinions, mass media, the role of experts, scientific “data” and power of persuasion, obviousness. Moral rhetoric, demographic rhetoric, cultural rhetoric, scientific rhetoric. Race, ethnicity, nation, asymmetry. Cultures, civilizations, universal religions: a society’s process of label construction.
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Albanian Campaigns
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1. Stadiums, Camps, and other Accomodations. 2. At the Bottom. 3. Minding Our Own Business.
The “Albanian problem” between 1991 and 1997: the internment in Bari, stadium as the trash dump, the Otranto tragedy, construction of the Albanians as a threat, performance of a script, removal or redirection of the significance of the event. Entrepreneurs as benefactors and educators, lower salaries, workers’ rights, union relations.
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Non-Persons
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1. In Limbo. 2. Persons and Non-Persons. 3. The Genealogy of Non-Persons. 4. On the Margins of Rights. 5. Disappearances.
Italian law, temporary permessi di soggiorno only. Migrants as non-persons: norms relative to citizenship, suppression of the reality of concrete social relations, work, friendship, emotions. Moral dilemmas, shifting of meaning, depersonalized terms.
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Global Paradoxes
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1. A World of Uncertainty. 2. Goods, People, and Borders. 3. Inside the Paradox. Afterword.
Globalized world: supremacy of movement, elimination of economic and communication borders, faster circulation of goods, symbols, and ideas, acceleration in decision-making time. Promethean nature of global capitalism: producing universal cultural forms, the exclusive economic system of society, homogenization of material cultural world-wide. Liberalism, uncertainty in the economic prospects of the developed world, local and state restraints, quality of life, end of the modern social contract, material existence precariousness, the decay of social relations. Equality, lower labor costs, inequalities, migrants and refugees. The need of a complete overturning of “the enemy” presupposition. The Bossi-Fini law: temporary residency, contract for residency, will of the employer.
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