When populists govern the country : strategies of legitimization of anti-immigration policies in Salvini's Italy
Cervi, Laura 
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)
Tejedor, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Periodisme i de Ciències de la Comunicació)
Alencar Dornelles, Mariana (Universidad Europea del Atlántico)
| Date: |
2020 |
| 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. |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
Populism ;
Far-right parties ;
Political discourse ;
Anti-immigration discourse ;
Refugee crisis ;
Anti-immigration policies |
| Published in: |
Sustainability, Vol. 12 Núm. 23 (2020) , p. 10225, ISSN 2071-1050 |
DOI: 10.3390/su122310225
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