“Fate presto!” Il paradigma della velocità come svuotamento del diritto alla protezione internazionale

In the last decade, we have increasingly witnessed the proliferation of measures and strategies, incorporated both in national and European legislation, aimed to accelerate the procedure for the recognition of international protection. The contribution, presenting part of an ethnographic research started in 2012 and still in progress, intends to problematize the rationality of these procedures and assess their impact with respect to the provisions contained in the wider legal framework, i.e., international conventions and treaties. If, about space, there is a tendency towards so-called externalization, it is interesting to see how this tendency towards the de-empowerment of state obligations also affects the way time is managed, representing the most “advanced” strategy for emptying the right to international protection.