Topic of thesis: “ THE HOTSPOT APPROACH: A POLICY OF BORDER AT DISTANCE AND CREATION OF A CONTENTION ZONE OF MIGRATION FLOWS AT THE TERRITORIAL EXTREMITIES OF EUROPE. THE CASE OF SICILY”
Abstract: It seems that in consequence of the failure of the borders externalization policy, adopted since the '90, the European Union is falling back on a hotspots policy on her soil; indeed, we would assist to the attempt to creating a “contention zone” of migration flows that would take place on the European territorial extremities. Three central questions compose the project's problematic: 1) Is the hotspots program adopted in Sicily a political project that aims to transform this region in a place of transit, detention, filtration and laboratory of asylum right restriction – by virtue of his insular character – producing at the same time a discourse that aims to normalise the island image as an “under disproportionate migration pressure zone”?; 2) Which is the role and which is the impact of the new technologies adopted and how their implication could provide any reflection axes about the logic and the raison d'être of this political project?; 3) In which way the adoption of the hotspot approach could be considered as revealing the future perspectives of the policy that the EU plans to adopt, and specifically the plan to create a “contention zone” at the European territorial extremities in the migration flows' management context?
Research interests: sociology - migration studies - migration policies - security studies
Graduated from: MA degree - “Cà Foscari” university of Venice BA degree - Università degli studi di Udine
Degrees obtained: MA degree in “Work, Social citizenship, Interculturalism” BA degree in "Cultural Tourism science and techniques"
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