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creators_name: Cervi, Laura
creators_name: Tejedor, Santiago
creators_name: Alencar Dornelles, Mariana
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title: When Populists Govern the Country: Strategies of Legitimization of Anti-Immigration Policies in Salvini’s Italy
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subjects: uneat_cs
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keywords: Populism, Far-right parties, Political discourse, Anti-immigration discourse, Refugee crisis, Anti-immigration policies.
abstract: 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
date_type: published
publication: Sustainability
volume: 12
number: 23
pagerange: 10225
pages: 0
id_number: doi:10.3390/su122310225
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issn: 2071-1050
official_url: http://doi.org/10.3390/su122310225
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language: en
citation:   Artículo Materias > Ciencias Sociales <http://repositorio.uneatlantico.es/view/subjects/uneat=5Fcs.html> Universidad Europea del Atlántico > Investigación > Artículos y libros <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