Italy’s Approach to East–West and South–North Migrations: From Lack of Knowledge to Political Use of them

Vitale Alessandro ()
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Vitale Alessandro: University of Milan, Department of International, Legal, Historical and Political Studies, 20122Milano, Italy

European Spatial Research and Policy, 2019, vol. 26, issue 2, 81-93

Abstract: After the end of the bipolar world, the possibility of an East–West mass migration became a new issue that took root in the Italian consciousness in forms masked by the feelings of the threat of an imminent “mass invasion” from Central and Eastern Europe. This new fear stimulated restrictive measures belatedly adopted in Italy and created a de facto unjust and imbalanced condition for new migrants from Eastern Europe because the first South–North migrations’ wave had already occurred when the regimes of Central and Eastern Europe collapsed.

Keywords: migrations; Italy’s migration policy; borders; propaganda; Eastern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.18778/1231-1952.26.2.04

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