The article aims to illustrate and explore the rhetoric and institutional approach toward migrants – asylum seekers in particular – undertaken by Italy following the COVID-19 crisis. Through the account of the different “narrative phases” and the consequent institutional action undertaken, this article intends to demonstrate how the health crisis has sharpened and even intensified pre-existing attitudes and practices. The actions taken in the last year can be understood as a further step in the process of externalizing the borders. Through the instrumental use of rhetoric and illegitimate practices, a sort of de-territorialization has been implemented through the use of quarantine ships.

Stefania Spada (2021). Old Rhetoric and New Devices: Quarantine Ships as an Instrument of Externalization. DVE DOMOVINI, 54, 143-153 [10.3986/dd.2021.2.11].

Old Rhetoric and New Devices: Quarantine Ships as an Instrument of Externalization

Stefania Spada
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2021

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The article aims to illustrate and explore the rhetoric and institutional approach toward migrants – asylum seekers in particular – undertaken by Italy following the COVID-19 crisis. Through the account of the different “narrative phases” and the consequent institutional action undertaken, this article intends to demonstrate how the health crisis has sharpened and even intensified pre-existing attitudes and practices. The actions taken in the last year can be understood as a further step in the process of externalizing the borders. Through the instrumental use of rhetoric and illegitimate practices, a sort of de-territorialization has been implemented through the use of quarantine ships.
2021
Stefania Spada (2021). Old Rhetoric and New Devices: Quarantine Ships as an Instrument of Externalization. DVE DOMOVINI, 54, 143-153 [10.3986/dd.2021.2.11].
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