Forced residence in liberal Italy
A pre-history, 1815–65
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12548664 |
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| Authors | Paul Garfinkel (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-58 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1354571x.2011.530760 |
| OpenAlex | W2025203363 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article analyzes the origins of domicilio coatto (forced residence), a system of police-administered deportation implemented by the liberal government in 1863. Initially an expedient for defusing the post-unitary crisis in the south, domicilio coatto evolved soon after into a permanent institution of preventative policing in liberal Italy; it would also serve as an important blueprint for Mussolini's confino di polizia. Focusing on the legal ancestry of domicilio coatto and the juridical mentalities of its framers, this article seeks to explain how and why liberal legal experts devised and endorsed such an illiberal institution. It begins by identifying the origins of forced residence in a wide range of pre-unitary penal and police statutes. Throughout, it argues that domicilio coatto was conceived not simply as a means of repressing political opponents in the Mezzogiorno but more importantly as an aggressive approach to preventing common crime. In so doing, it challenges previous assumptions about the beginnings, aims and appeal of forced residence in the constitutional monarchy
Appeal · Blueprint · Deportation · Immigration · Institution · Political science · Politics · Residence · Sociology · Statute · Toleration · Unitary state · European history and politics · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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