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Temporal Apartheid as the Italian Response to Global Migration

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Abstract

The migratory phenomenon reveals the contradictions of globalization and belies the rhetoric of open borders. Despite the economically strongest countries spending huge sums to restrict immigration, more and more migrants reach the destination countries. Many western societies (such as Italy) give discriminatory responses to this global phenomenon and place migrants in a peculiar spatio-temporal collocation that I call “temporal apartheid” (Tusini 2015).

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Notes

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    As we know, the distinction is only analytical. In fact, it is clear that the two concepts are intimately linked (Elias 1984).

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    “This has gone so far that we can hardly refer to the simplest non-spatial situation without constant resort to physical metaphors. I “grasp” the “thread” of another’s arguments, but if its “level” is “over my head” my attention may “wander” and “lose touch” with the “drift” of it, so that when he “comes” to his “point” we differ “widely”, our “views” being indeed so “far apart” that the “things” he says “appear” “much” too arbitrary, or even “a lot” of nonsense” (Whorf 1956: 146).

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    A deictic expression (or deixis) is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place or situation in which a speaker is speaking.

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    As Fabian suggested, “allochronic” indicates events or individuals not occurring or existing at the same time, while “synchronic” means the opposite.

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    Comparisons can be carried out involving people living in different regions of the Earth, but also living in the same country such as immigrants and natives.

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    I was inspired by Schütz’s theory of the social world (1960) to build the two theoretical types of migrants.

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    Istat is the Italian National Institute of Statistics; www.istat.it.

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    It is interesting to add that until ten years ago the jihadist network in France was weaker than today and the riots were a secular social malaise event and not a religiously radicalized rebellion. France has lost time that is not passed without consequences: the repressive response of the government and the lack of a reform plan for the banlieues have opened the doors to jihadist proselytism.

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Tusini, S. (2018). Temporal Apartheid as the Italian Response to Global Migration. In: Caselli, M., Gilardoni, G. (eds) Globalization, Supranational Dynamics and Local Experiences . Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64075-4_10

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