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Italy as a gateway to Europe for African migration: How to deal with the Doll's House effect?

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  • Alberto Brugnoli
  • Matteo Matteini

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No physical wall would ever be an effective deterrent when opposed to growing inequalities among people in neighbouring regions. Nevertheless, whether or not governments decide to build physical walls on their borders, walls already often exist around each individual migrant, keeping them secluded like in a Doll's House. This is particularly true when applied to the new stream of African migration to Europe, flowing mainly through Italy. In this paper, we propose a conceptual paradigm to show how the Doll's House is structured for this typical stream of migration and we provide some policy suggestions to deal with it. Ninguna barrera física será nunca un elemento disuasorio eficaz contra las crecientes desigualdades entre poblaciones de regiones vecinas. Sin embargo, independientemente de que los gobiernos decidan o no construir barreras físicas en sus fronteras, a menudo ya existen barreras alrededor de cada migrante individual, que los mantienen aislados como en una casa de muñecas. Esto es particularmente cierto cuando se aplica al nuevo flujo de migración africana hacia Europa, principalmente a través de Italia. En este artículo se propone un paradigma conceptual con el que se muestra cómo está estructurada la casa de muñecas para esta corriente típica de migración y se ofrecen algunas sugerencias de políticas con las que abordarla. 隣接する地域の住人間において広がる格差に対して、物理的な壁が効果的な抑止力となるということは考えられない。それにもかかわらず、政府が国境に壁を建設することを決定する/しないに関係なく、すでに移民一人ひとりの周りを壁が取り囲んでおり、「人形の家」のように彼らを社会から隔絶しているのである。これは、主にイタリアを通過してヨーロッパに移動するアフリカ移民の新しい流れに特に当てはまることである。本稿では、この典型的な移民の流れにおける「人形の家」の構造を示す概念のパラダイムを提示し、それに対応する政策案を提案する。

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  • Alberto Brugnoli & Matteo Matteini, 2018. "Italy as a gateway to Europe for African migration: How to deal with the Doll's House effect?," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(4), pages 253-268, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:10:y:2018:i:4:p:253-268
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12163
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