This chapter describes and analyses Italy’s response to asylum seekers which is conflicted between Italy’s legal obligations as a Member State of the EU and a party to the Dublin Regulation, and Italy’s sensitivities regarding its national sovereignty. It describes the Italian position as vacillating between law and politics, and describes in practical terms the protection which is given to asylum seekers, often through the services of faith and non-governmental organisations. This conflict arises from an unresolved tension between fear and reception’\integration. The Italian ‘case’ shows however that refugee identities are shaped in conflicting ways by different actors: the EU, the state and faith and non-governmental organisations. Thus asylum seekers are constructed in conflicting terms through the use of state and non-state power.

Better than our fears? Refugees in Italy : between rhetorics of exclusion and local projects of inclusion / M. Ambrosini - In: Refugee protection and the role of law : conflicting identities / [a cura di] S. Kneebone, D. Stevens, L. Baldassar. - London : Routledge, 2014. - ISBN 9780415835657. - pp. 235-250

Better than our fears? Refugees in Italy : between rhetorics of exclusion and local projects of inclusion

M. Ambrosini
2014

Abstract

This chapter describes and analyses Italy’s response to asylum seekers which is conflicted between Italy’s legal obligations as a Member State of the EU and a party to the Dublin Regulation, and Italy’s sensitivities regarding its national sovereignty. It describes the Italian position as vacillating between law and politics, and describes in practical terms the protection which is given to asylum seekers, often through the services of faith and non-governmental organisations. This conflict arises from an unresolved tension between fear and reception’\integration. The Italian ‘case’ shows however that refugee identities are shaped in conflicting ways by different actors: the EU, the state and faith and non-governmental organisations. Thus asylum seekers are constructed in conflicting terms through the use of state and non-state power.
refugees ; migration policies; Italy ; civil society ;
Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
Settore SPS/10 - Sociologia dell'Ambiente e del Territorio
Settore SPS/11 - Sociologia dei Fenomeni Politici
2014
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