Mandatory Integration Measures and Differential Inclusion: The Italian Case

Paolo Cuttitta ()
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Paolo Cuttitta: VU University Amsterdam

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2016, vol. 17, issue 1, No 15, 289-302

Abstract: Abstract Since 2012 migrants arriving regularly in Italy must sign an integration agreement and declare their agreement with a ‘Charter of the values’. Insufficient integration (measured through a point-based system) results in deportation. While the point-based system discriminates against the poor, the less educated and qualified, the subordinate workers, and the nomads, the Charter is inspired by stereotypical and stigmatizing visions of Islam. This paper identifies the cases of discrimination, both legal (freedom of thought, presumption of innocence, principle of non-discrimination, right to an effective remedy, laicism of state) and symbolical, of the integration agreement, and analyses Italian integration measures before the background of the concept of differential inclusion: the incorporation of regular migrants requires them to pass under a symbolic and legal yoke, which increases their hierarchical differentiation. The integration agreement is also analyzed with regard to its relationship with border controls and with the concepts of ‘illegalization’ and ‘deportability’.

Keywords: Integration; Regular migration; Discrimination; Differential inclusion; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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