TY  - JOUR
ID  - uneatlantico157
TI  - When Populists Govern the Country: Strategies of Legitimization of Anti-Immigration Policies in Salvini?s Italy
A1  - Cervi, Laura
A1  - Tejedor, Santiago
A1  - Alencar Dornelles, Mariana
AV  - none
KW  - Populism
KW  -  Far-right parties
KW  -  Political discourse
KW  -  Anti-immigration discourse
KW  -  Refugee crisis
KW  -  Anti-immigration policies.
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2020/12//
IS  - 23
VL  - 12
SN  - 2071-1050
UR  - http://doi.org/10.3390/su122310225
ER  -