From Ukraine to the Mediterranean: Italy and the governance of migration

IF 2.2 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2023.2197689

Michela Ceccorulli

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The Russian military invasion of Ukraine of late February 2022 caused the largest displacement of persons since the end of the Second World War, testing the European Union’s and its member states’ resilience. In an unprecedented move, the European Union adopted an exceptional measure, the Directive on Temporary Protection, a provision to cope with crises as old as the first massive inflow the EU had experienced back in 2001 during the Balkan wars. That measure has provided order to the reception of the millions of arrivals and set aside the usual controversies among member states, originating from an incomplete and unbalanced European migration and asylum system. While aligning with the position and the directions of the EU, and thanks to unprecedented bipartisan support for the reception of the Ukrainians displaced, Italy has taken the opportunity provided by the crisis to reiterate the urgency of a permanent and structured European system to cope with massive inflows. The Mediterranean stood in the background, where the resumption of inflows, partly triggered by the consequences of the conflict, challenged the renewed climate of bipartisanship. The objective of the article is to identify (dis)continuities in Italian migration policy under Mario Draghi as the Government reacted to the conflict in Ukraine, and the possible changes that could characterize the new government of Giorgia Meloni.

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从乌克兰到地中海:意大利与移民治理

2022年2月下旬，俄罗斯对乌克兰的军事入侵造成了自第二次世界大战结束以来最大规模的人口流离失所，考验着欧盟及其成员国的应变能力。欧盟史无前例地采取了一项特殊措施，即《临时保护指令》(Directive on Temporary Protection)，这是一项应对危机的规定，早在2001年巴尔干战争期间，欧盟就经历了第一次大规模移民流入。这一措施为接收数百万移民提供了秩序，并搁置了成员国之间通常因欧洲移民和庇护体系不完整和不平衡而引发的争议。在与欧盟的立场和方向保持一致的同时，由于两党对接纳乌克兰难民的空前支持，意大利利用此次危机提供的机会，重申了建立一个永久性、结构化的欧洲体系以应对大规模难民流入的紧迫性。地中海处于背景之中，在那里，部分由冲突后果引起的资金重新流入挑战了两党合作的新气氛。本文的目的是确定马里奥·德拉吉领导下的意大利移民政策的(不)连续性，因为政府对乌克兰冲突的反应，以及可能发生的变化，这可能是乔治娅·梅洛尼新政府的特征。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.