WP 08 : Effects of exceptionalism on social cohesion in Europe and beyond

Articles

• Mass Deportations of Asylum Seekers decided by Libyan Authorities

  22 janvier 2008, par Palidda Salvatore
  Yesterday, the government of Tripoli announced with a press release (by Jana) that « all illegal immigrants » staying in the Libyan territory will be expelled « without exception ». According to the last estimate of Libyan authorities, they are two million people. Among these many asylum seekers and refugees, women and children, coming mostly from the Horn of Africa.

• Deportazioni di massa di migranti diposte dalle autorita’ libiche

  22 gennaio 2008, di Palidda Salvatore
  Il Governo di Tripoli ha annunciato ieri con un comunicato stampa (diffuso dall’agenzia Jana) che «tutti gli immigrati illegali» presenti sul territorio nazionale saranno espulsi «senza eccezioni».

• Condemned imam in Milan

  24 December 2007, by Petti Gabriella
  Abu IMAD was found guilty for delinquency association aggravated by conspiracy for terrorism. Other 10 defendants recognized responsible for the same offence. Milan, the imam of Jenner avenue sentenced to 3 years and 8 months

• Workshop : The political impact of security policies

  17 July 2007, by Rahola Federico
  The WP8 unit of Challenge Project has organised a three-days workshop held on in Genoa, on June 14th, 15th, and 16th 2007, whose general aim has been to analyse and debate the main impacts of the so-called «securitarian turn» involving the global political scenario. The general framework of the workshop directly reflects the Genoa unit’s field of research within the Challenge project (namely, the social and political effects of security policies), starting from the theoretical assumption that security devices and practices directly produce a domain of fear, and thus a politics of insecurity, by investing the overall social and political relations and imposing themselves as a legitimated technique of global governance.

• Workshop : The political an social impact of security policies

  4 June 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
  The workshop aims to outline, analyse, and discuss the main political impacts of global security politics

• Internments: CPT and other camps

  19 February 2007, by Conflitti globali
  This issue of Conflitti globali is introduced by a map – the one produced by the research collective Migreurop – which effectively suggests the idea of the European Union as a big cage: almost two hundreds facilities dedicated to internment, control, and identification of migrants and displaced people. The visual effect of the map is therefore of a «chicken pox», whose spots are mainly concentrated within the current EU border, extending nonetheless their propagation to the EU candidates countries or to particular «mandatory» states – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia –, as well as to countries with which Europe keeps uncertain and ambivalent relations, like Putin’s Russia or Gheddafi’s Libya.

• Internamenti cpt e altri campi

  5 febbraio 2007, di Conflitti globali
  Se guardate attentamente la cartina riprodotta nell’apertura di questo numero, potete farvi un’idea dell’Europa in gabbia. Circa duecento strutture dedicate all’internamento, al controllo e all’identificazione dei migranti. Non solo in Europa, ma anche nei paesi candidati e aspiranti all’ingresso nella Ue, nei tributari, come Marocco, Algeria e Tunisia, e in quelli con cui l’Europa intrattiene relazioni complesse, oscillanti tra la connivenza e il sospetto, come la Russia di Putin. La cartina ricorda irresistibilmente la dislocazione delle legioni e delle guarnigioni all’epoca in cui l’impero romano, ancora unificato, cominciava a mettersi sulla difensiva, diciamo da Marco Aurelio in poi.

• The practices of the everyday war against migrations (and its paradoxes)

  22 January 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
  Starting from the Seventies, and particularly since the beginning of the Nineties, the practices adopted in order to manage international migrations give the impression to progressively reproduce a «revolving door» dynamics. By this metaphor we refer to the fact that nowadays borders ambivalently work as filters, which may alternatively block or tolerate and promote the movement of people, always conditioning it.

• Les paradoxes (apparents) de la guerre aux migrations

  22 janvier 2007, par Palidda Salvatore
  Pour aborder de manière appropriée et efficace les véritables problèmes d’intégration des immigrés il est avant tout nécessaire comprendre quand, où et pourquoi les immigrés arrivent à s’insérer et à s’intégrer ou au contraire n’arrivent pas à atteindre ce résultat. Qu’est ce que favorise ou, au contraire, fait obstacle à l’intégration ? Il est alors utile recenser les expériences positives et négatives voire les "bonnes et les mauvaises pratiques" pour mieux comprendre comment les ONG peuvent contribuer à ce que les immigrés puissent se construire une intégration pacifique et régulière.

• Soldati, apostoli e mercanti. La nuova classe globale che esporta la democrazia liberale

  22 gennaio 2007, di Ciccarelli Roberto
  Soldati, apostoli e mercanti si muovono sulla carta dell’impero e tracciano i nuovi confini della guerra globale. I loro potenti vettori militari, ideologici ed economici non sono più fonti di sinistra rassicurazione, come nell’epoca della guerra fredda, ma una nuova chiamata alle armi. Le tre categorie elencate da Valéry non molto tempo fa possono essere oggi identificate in altrettanti soggetti della guerra globale: il «soldato di pace», colui cioè che «esporta la democrazia» lottando contro il terrorismo; l’operatore umanitario che ricostruisce con la sua paziente opera di apostolo della pace tra i popoli i tessuti delle società civili straziate dalla guerra; i mercanti che non sono più solo i capitalisti che piombano sulle rovine per costruire le regge dei potentati locali, ma anche coloro che governano le istituzioni multilaterali internazionali, predicano istituzionalmente lo sviluppo dei «paesi poveri» intrecciando l’obiettivo di «esportare la democrazia» con quello della lotta contro gli «Stati canaglia» che non devono rientrare nelle politiche di sostegno allo sviluppo della Banca Mondiale.

• Analysis of statistical data from 1990 to the present day about immigration and income distribution, work market, housing situation, and informal economies

  22 January 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
  Immigration of foreigners in Italy could be seen not just as a particularly meaningful case in comparison with the phenomena on other southern European countries but in the European Union on the whole. While internal migration and emigration were the fundamental factors of all European nations in the 19th century and even in the ‘60s in the 20th century, these events were linked to colonisation, to industrial growth and the aspiration of emancipation of the subordinate classes, in essence to the first «great transformation», today’s migration is obviously connected to neo-liberal globalised development and as ever to aspirations of economic, social and political emancipation, which is common to all people in every part of the world, such being the second great transformation, regarded as the advent of post-modernism dating from the 1970s.

• Securitarism, reproduction of disorder and erosion of democratic rule of law

  22 January 2007, by Palidda Salvatore
  Insecurity and security has taken an increasing importance and political weight since the 1980s and more so since the 1990s, first of all, in the United States and then in Europe and the rest of the world. The phenomenon has grown through the often extreme medialisation on the issue of insecurity and security of the great urban agglomerations in wealthy nations. After the 11th September 2001, it was absorbed into the subject of permanent war against the new «global enemy» . Before going into an analysis of the different interpretations of the phenomenon, I believe it would be useful to outline the contents and therefore the theoretical and methodological instruments I intend to use in this work.

• The changes in the fight against illegal immigration in the Euro-Mediterranean area and in Euro-Mediterranean relations

  22 January 2007, by Cuttitta Paolo
  This paper summarises recent years’ developments of European southern border controls with regard to migration movements originating from and/or transiting through North Africa. Particular attention is dedicated to strategies regarding immigration and border controls adopted by Italy (as one of the main first destination countries of illegal migration transiting through or originating from North Africa) as well as by the European union.

• La favola della sicurezza : Un dialogo tra filosofi antichi e un sociologo

  27 dicembre 2006, di Dal Lago Alessandro
  Da quando le FF.SS sono state scorporate in un certo numero di società autonome raccolte sotto la sigla Trenitalia, la qualità dei viaggi in treno è drammaticamente peggiorata. Convogli soppressi all’ultimo momento, ritardi continui, coincidenze impossibili, vagoni sporchi, gelati o torridi, toilette nauseanti o perennemente chiuse, prezzi aumentati, vessazioni di ogni tipo. In cambio, però, le stazioni hanno visto la comparsa di gente dall’aria truce, abbigliata in tenuta da sommossa urbana e armata di pistola e manganello. Sono le forze di sicurezza privata ingaggiate dalle ferrovie per proteggerci. Così, al danno continuo si è aggiunta la beffa. Il servizio è pessimo, ma è sicuro. Ovviamente, il costo della sicurezza ricade sui viaggiatori.

• In Times, in and as Global Conflict

  23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
  In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.

• La metamorfosi del guerriero

  2006, di Conflitti globali
  Quando le truppe delle diverse nazioni belligeranti cominciarono a massacrarsi nell’estate del 1914, le loro divise erano per lo più quelle di trent’anni prima. Con l’eccezione degli inglesi, che avevano rinunciato da tempo alla tradizionale giubba rossa in favore del kaki, tutti gli altri mantenevano i segni esteriori di un modo di combattere che non esisteva più. I belgi portavano ancora il kepì e le spalline con le nappe, mentre i tedeschi avevano ancora l’elmo con il chiodo della guerra franco-prussiana. I russi erano abbigliati con la tipica tunica contadina e il berretto con visiera della guerra con i giapponesi. I francesi avevano il lungo cappotto rimboccato e spesso i pantaloni rossi del 1870. I copricapo della cavalleria erano vari e bizzarri come si conveniva a un’arma considerata ancora la più nobile, mentre i corazzieri portavano ancora la corazza e il cimiero con la coda di cavallo.

• fronti/frontiere

  2006, di Conflitti globali
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• La guerra dei mondi

  Marzo 2005, di Conflitti globali
  Pensare i conflitti politici e sociali, in un’accezione molto ampia, senza proiettarli su scala planetaria è oggi privo di senso. Ciò non significa perseguire un’impossibile lettura unitaria o globale del conflitto – come avviene, al prezzo di un’evidente deriva ideologica, nelle teorie oggi prevalenti di destra («scontro di civiltà») o di sinistra («guerra civile globale») – quanto piuttosto comprendere la rete di implicazioni di cui ogni conflitto è espressione. Così, per esempio, la posta del controllo delle risorse energetiche in Medio Oriente è in gioco su diversi piani: egemonia americana, ruolo dell’Europa (con le sue divisioni e diverse sfere d’influenza), economia globale, mercato petrolifero, crisi dei nazionalismi arabi, movimenti religiosi ecc.

• The construction of a common enemy: Europe, War, Migration

  7 December 2004, by Dal Lago Alessandro
  Alessandro Dal Lago proposed to discuss the notion of war from a sociological perspective. He started his intervention by making reference to the conception of war in the time of ancient Greece. He highlighted the fact that a Greek citizen usually spent half of his life at war and that in some Greek (poleis) and, notably in Sparta, it was even usual to dedicate the whole life to the practice of war. Yet, Dal Lago underlined that Plato devoted no book of his wide production to the very topic of war.

• Effects of Exceptionalism on social cohesion in Europe and beyond

  30 November 2004, by Dal Lago Alessandro, Palidda Salvatore
  Developing the framework of the Elise project, the Genoa group workpackage of Challenge project intends to carry out the research through a number of in-depth case studies regarding the production of various security concepts and practices at local, national, European and global level. We will investigate the reality of what has been defined «Full spectrum dominance», that is the reality of a fractional order - or rather dis-order -, resulting from the interaction of different actors with often divergent interests, and the possible alternative to such a disorder resulting from the construction of the European Union.