Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration

Italy as an immigration country has been characterized by high rates of irregular migration due to the weak legal admission channels available and the combination of apowerful internal demand of foreign workers and intense external pressure on itsborders. Despite the growing salience of migration is...

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Autores: Finotelli, Claudia, Echeverría Cubello, Gabriel Esteban
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Migration policy
Far right
Giorgia Meloni
Migration politics
Italy
Fratelly D'Italia
Irregular Migration
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spelling Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigrationFinotelli, ClaudiaEcheverría Cubello, Gabriel EstebanMigration policyFar rightGiorgia MeloniMigration politicsItalyFratelly D'ItaliaIrregular MigrationCiencias Sociales5902 Ciencias Políticas5906 Sociología PolíticaItaly as an immigration country has been characterized by high rates of irregular migration due to the weak legal admission channels available and the combination of apowerful internal demand of foreign workers and intense external pressure on itsborders. Despite the growing salience of migration issues in the political arena, the country has shown a marked inertia in addressing the structural causes of the phenomenon. The gap between political grandstanding and effective governance hasbeen highlighted by numerous studies. This article analyses the first year of Giorgia Meloni’s government by assessing the coherence between the highly restrictive electoral promises and the implemented policies, and by weighing the degree of novelty of its approach in relation to migration management over the last twenty years. Results show that, beyond the multiplication of proclamations and emergency interventions with respect to recurring border crises, there has been an overall pragmatic and rather open attitude, far from the radical stances of the opposition years. In addition, the full confirmation of that model of ‘reluctant openness’ that has characterized the Italian approach to immigration, combining irregularity as the main route of access with an almost complete overlook of other important dimensions like migrants’ integration.Taylor & FrancisUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20242024-01-0120242024-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114991reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)InglésengMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 Not available PID-PID2019-104706GB-I00 Civitesopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1149912026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
title Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
spellingShingle Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
Finotelli, Claudia
Migration policy
Far right
Giorgia Meloni
Migration politics
Italy
Fratelly D'Italia
Irregular Migration
Ciencias Sociales
5902 Ciencias Políticas
5906 Sociología Política
title_short Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
title_full Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
title_fullStr Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
title_full_unstemmed Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
title_sort Much ado about nothing? Giorgia Meloni’s government and immigration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Finotelli, Claudia
Echeverría Cubello, Gabriel Esteban
author Finotelli, Claudia
author_facet Finotelli, Claudia
Echeverría Cubello, Gabriel Esteban
author_role author
author2 Echeverría Cubello, Gabriel Esteban
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Migration policy
Far right
Giorgia Meloni
Migration politics
Italy
Fratelly D'Italia
Irregular Migration
Ciencias Sociales
5902 Ciencias Políticas
5906 Sociología Política
topic Migration policy
Far right
Giorgia Meloni
Migration politics
Italy
Fratelly D'Italia
Irregular Migration
Ciencias Sociales
5902 Ciencias Políticas
5906 Sociología Política
description Italy as an immigration country has been characterized by high rates of irregular migration due to the weak legal admission channels available and the combination of apowerful internal demand of foreign workers and intense external pressure on itsborders. Despite the growing salience of migration issues in the political arena, the country has shown a marked inertia in addressing the structural causes of the phenomenon. The gap between political grandstanding and effective governance hasbeen highlighted by numerous studies. This article analyses the first year of Giorgia Meloni’s government by assessing the coherence between the highly restrictive electoral promises and the implemented policies, and by weighing the degree of novelty of its approach in relation to migration management over the last twenty years. Results show that, beyond the multiplication of proclamations and emergency interventions with respect to recurring border crises, there has been an overall pragmatic and rather open attitude, far from the radical stances of the opposition years. In addition, the full confirmation of that model of ‘reluctant openness’ that has characterized the Italian approach to immigration, combining irregularity as the main route of access with an almost complete overlook of other important dimensions like migrants’ integration.
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