International Legal Principles, Penal Populism and Criminalisation of ‘Unwanted Migration’

IF 0.4 Q3 LAW

International Community Law Review Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI:10.1163/18719732-bja10092

Marta Minetti

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Abstract

The criminalisation of migration is one of the most explicit ways in which law generates, sustains, and even legitimizes hostility towards “unwanted migrants”. This article will take into examination the criminalisation of “unwanted migration” by the Italian authorities and its relation to internationally established legal principles in the area of human mobility, arguing that the expansion of penal populism constitutes a danger for the balance among them. The article starts with an analysis of human mobility in international law and the “protection through prosecution” paradigm to highlight an inherent harmony of the aims of the legal systems dealing with human mobility from the humanitarian and criminal law perspective. Section two scrutinises the Italian case and the populistic distortion of the provisions and principles entailed in the field of transnational criminal law to counter human mobility. Section three reconnects the national criminalisation of migration with the international legal dimension and argues that the misuse of the transnational organised crime framework ultimately legitimises the violation of human and refugee rights and contravenes key international law principles.

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国际法原则、刑事民粹主义和“不受欢迎的移民”的刑事化

将移民定为刑事犯罪是法律产生、维持甚至使对“不受欢迎的移民”的敌意合法化的最明确方式之一。本文将审查意大利当局对“不受欢迎的移民”的刑事定罪及其与国际上在人口流动领域确立的法律原则的关系，认为刑事民粹主义的扩大对它们之间的平衡构成了危险。本文首先分析了国际法中的人员流动和“通过起诉保护”范式，以突出从人道主义和刑法角度处理人员流动的法律制度目标的内在和谐。第二节详细审查了意大利的案例和民粹主义对跨国刑法领域的规定和原则的歪曲，以反对人员流动。第三节将国家对移民的刑事定罪与国际法律层面重新联系起来，并认为滥用跨国有组织犯罪框架最终使侵犯人权和难民权利的行为合法化，并违反了关键的国际法原则。

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