Civil Society Actors and the 2020 Italian Amnesty

Bordering to Deborder

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ID3660074
AuthorsP Bonizzoni (0000-0001-6849-7568, University of Milan, corresponding author), Maarten Hajer (0000-0001-7054-137X, University of Milan), Minke Hajer (University of Milan)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue1
Pages44-60
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256868.2022.2134317
OpenAlexW4304842858
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited54

Using the 2020 regularisation of irregular migrant workers in Italy as a case study, the paper inquires about the role of Civil Society Actors (hereafter CSAs) in (de/re)bordering processes. Conceptualising borders as filters that draw distinctions through the sociocultural, legal and administrative constructs of deservingness entailed by immigration policymaking, the paper shows that, when implementing the regularisation programme, CSAs reproduce governmental distinctions between deserving and undeserving migrant workers and employers. However, CSAs can also find ways to challenge or circumvent internal borders, broadening the range of legitimate potential applicants through more or less visible and confrontational struggles, bending or even breaking the rules. In doing so, they redefine internal borders through alternative definitions of migrants’ deservingness

Amnesty · Civil society · Criminology · Ethnology · Human rights · Immigration · Irregular migration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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