In this paper we review some current research on the migration flows concerning southern European countries. They are: the immigration from developed countries, the so-called new emigration from southern Europe, and the persistent flow of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers coming from ‘peripheral’ countries. They receive a very different treatment in local political debates, which are dominated by the concern for ‘the crisis’, i. e. the whole range of economic, social and political changes arising from neoliberal globalization. While discussing the current literature on these topics, we will try to show how these flows are politically constructed for the purposes of local and national élites. At the same time, we will try to highlight the relationships between these trends and the general changes affecting southern European countries
In questo lavoro esaminiamo alcune tendenze della ricerca sui flussi migratori che riguardano i Paesi dell’Europa meridionale. Essi sono: l’immigrazione dai Paesi sviluppati, la cosiddetta nuova emigrazione sudeuropea e il flusso persistente di migranti, rifugiati e richiedenti asilo dai Paesi del Sud del mondo. Essi ricevono un trattamento assai differente nei dibattiti politici locali e nazionali, dominati dalla preoccupazione per la ‘crisi’, ovvero l’insieme complesso di cambiamenti economici, sociali e politici derivanti dalla globalizzazione neoliberista in corso. Oltre a discutere della letteratura scientifica più recente relativa a questi argomenti, cercheremo di mostrare come questi flussi sono politicamente costruiti per gli scopi delle classi dirigenti locali e nazionali. Allo stesso tempo, cercheremo di evidenziare le relazioni tra queste tendenze e i cambiamenti generali che interessano i Paesi dell’Europa meridionale
Le migrazioni nei Paesi dell'Europa del Sud: realtà e discorso
Domenico Maddaloni
;Grazia Moffa
2018
Abstract
In this paper we review some current research on the migration flows concerning southern European countries. They are: the immigration from developed countries, the so-called new emigration from southern Europe, and the persistent flow of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers coming from ‘peripheral’ countries. They receive a very different treatment in local political debates, which are dominated by the concern for ‘the crisis’, i. e. the whole range of economic, social and political changes arising from neoliberal globalization. While discussing the current literature on these topics, we will try to show how these flows are politically constructed for the purposes of local and national élites. At the same time, we will try to highlight the relationships between these trends and the general changes affecting southern European countriesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.