relation: http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/157/
canonical: http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/id/eprint/157/
title: When Populists Govern the Country: Strategies of Legitimization of Anti-Immigration Policies in Salvini’s Italy
creator: Cervi, Laura
creator: Tejedor, Santiago
creator: Alencar Dornelles, Mariana
subject: Ciencias Sociales
description: The study aims at disclosing the narrative of immigration and the construction of the otherness in Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini’s discourse, geared towards the legitimization of anti-immigration policies. For this purpose, the author analyzes a sample of the Italian Interior Minister’s discourses related to three cases of migrant landings, drawing on Proximization Theory, revealing how the concepts of closeness and remoteness are manipulated for the construction of threat and the legitimization of negative political response. The study concludes that Salvini’s discourse presents all the classic characteristics of populism. It depicts virtuous and hardworking people threatened by the “others”, them “illegals” who are not “legitimate refugees”, along with inventing a new antagonist “other”, the rescue NGOs that are framed as criminals, justifying their criminalization.
date: 2020-12
type: Artículo
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Artículo Materias > Ciencias Sociales <http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/view/subjects/uneat=5Fcs.html> Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Producción Científica <http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/view/divisions/uneatlantico=5Fproduccion=5Fcientifica.html> Abierto Inglés The study aims at disclosing the narrative of immigration and the construction of the otherness in Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini’s discourse, geared towards the legitimization of anti-immigration policies. For this purpose, the author analyzes a sample of the Italian Interior Minister’s discourses related to three cases of migrant landings, drawing on Proximization Theory, revealing how the concepts of closeness and remoteness are manipulated for the construction of threat and the legitimization of negative political response. The study concludes that Salvini’s discourse presents all the classic characteristics of populism. It depicts virtuous and hardworking people threatened by the “others”, them “illegals” who are not “legitimate refugees”, along with inventing a new antagonist “other”, the rescue NGOs that are framed as criminals, justifying their criminalization. metadata Cervi, Laura; Tejedor, Santiago y Alencar Dornelles, Mariana mail SIN ESPECIFICAR, SIN ESPECIFICAR, mariana.dornelles@funiber.org       (2020) When Populists Govern the Country: Strategies of Legitimization of Anti-Immigration Policies in Salvini’s Italy.  Sustainability, 12 (23).  p. 10225.  ISSN 2071-1050     
relation: http://doi.org/10.3390/su122310225
relation: doi:10.3390/su122310225
language: en