Reproducing borders, reproducing Abyssal lines. Representation and governance of the “migrations' emergency” in contemporary Italy

Authors

  • Carla Panico Phd Program in Postcolonialism and Global citizenship, Centro Estudos Sociais - University of Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2019.303

Abstract

The aim of this text is to draw a picture of how the representation of contemporary migratory phenomena deals with the dominant hegemonic knowledge paradigm in Europe. In particular, contemporary Italy—as it is located at the center of the Mediterranean and therefore crossed by enormous migratory flows—is a privileged place to investigate how the theme of migration is functional, in European societies, to the demarcation of new and multiple abyssal lines (Sousa Santos 2015); what we intend to investigate is a mechanism of colonial power—and therefore of exclusion, exploitation and production of absence—exercised within a global North.

Author Biography

Carla Panico, Phd Program in Postcolonialism and Global citizenship, Centro Estudos Sociais - University of Coimbra

Carla Panico is a PhD student in Postcolonialism and Global Citizenship (CES-FEUC) at the University of Coimbra. She holds a master's degree in Contemporary History from the University of di Pisa – Italy, where she focused her thesis in Antonio Gramsci's Southern Question. Her research interests include the production of “internal Souths” inside the global North - especially in relation to the contemporary Euro- Mediterranean space. She is currently developing a research about the connections between precarity, migrations and new social movements in Southern Europe, with a postcolonial critical approach.


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Published

2019-05-16