Fleeing from the Global Compact for Migration: A missed opportunity for Italy

Chiara Scissa
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Chiara Scissa: Sant’Anna School ofAdvanced Studies, DIRPOLIS Institute, Italy

Border Crossing, 2020, vol. 10, issue 2, 155-174

Abstract: This article examines the reasons that in December 2018 led both the Italian Parliament and Government to refrain from the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which first Italy promoted as a way to revitalize the European Union’s solidarity and coordination, while lessening the uneven burden of migratory inflows into the country. Although it has been argued that ‘the opposition to the Compact has propagandistic objectives, that cannot be negotiated away’ (Gatti, 2018, p. 1) this article aims to demonstrate the wide socio-economic and political benefits that the Global Compact will bring to Italy if adopted, as well as the gains that an instrument of international migration governance will bring to national migration policy. This contribution also highlights the opportunities that the Global Compact offers for a truly common European approach to migration.

Keywords: global compact; migration governance; Italy; migration policy; nationalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.33182/bc.v10i2.1110

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