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.