Migration Crisis, Organised Crime and Domestic Politics in Italy: Unfolding the Interplay

Iole Fontana

South European Society and Politics, 2020, vol. 25, issue 1, 49-74

Abstract: Focusing on Italy in the years of the ‘migration crisis’ between 2013 and 2017, this article explores how migration, crime groups and the domestic politics of migration control became entangled in times of crisis. Departing from previous theoretical discussions, it builds a framework that combines crime groups’ actions with domestic political processes in host countries and explores how the crime-migration nexus shaped – and was shaped by – Italian migration policymaking. The article contends that in the context of crisis the nexus took on new forms and that Italian migration politics and policies served to foster rather than counter the phenomenon, in a continuous interplay between criminal practices and policy choices.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1738092

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