Vittima o carnefice? Lo storytelling europeo dei flussi migratori
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Valeria Ferraretto, Silvia Ferrari, Verbena Giambastiani
Publishing Year 2018 Issue 2018/61
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 47-58 File size 695 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2018-061005
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The present paper investigates the way in which media and politics represent migrants people. This storytelling justifies violent response to what is deemed as ‘barbarian invasion’. Following a Foucaultian perspective, this storytelling is grounded on two methods of power. The first one is the process of ‘spectacularization’. The movement of migrants towards Europe misrepresented by media legitimates the rhetoric of invasion. The second one is the declaration of a state of emergency to face the ‘barbarian invasion’. Hence, Europe becomes the victimizer. Europe blames the victims: the migrants. People in needs are excluded from society and are treated as persons whose life is not worth the respect locals instead enjoy. A foreigner who is ‘illegal’ or ‘illegitimate’, does not exist socially or rather exists only as invisible presence.
Keywords: Migrants, identity, non-person, power, barrier, spectacle
Valeria Ferraretto, Silvia Ferrari, Verbena Giambastiani, Vittima o carnefice? Lo storytelling europeo dei flussi migratori in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 61/2018, pp 47-58, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2018-061005