Migration Policy From Italy: A Paradigm Shift For Whom And At What Cost?

Migration scholars with diverse disciplinary affiliations have claimed that we need a “paradigm shift” for a long time, largely stemming from dissatisfaction with the traditional ways migration is understood, studied and man aged. Much of the discontent and new theoretical directions have centered on the overemphasis on state con trol and bordering practices, the legal and ethical concerns of the externalization of borders, the neglect of mi grants’ agency and the lack of critical attention to global inequalities and historical context when looking at mi gration issues (see Sassen 2014; De Genova and Tazzioli 2023; Yuval-Davis et al. 2019).