RT Article
T1 Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy
JF European journal of criminology
VO 19
IS 3
SP 442
OP 466
A1 Crocitti, Stefania
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1801010668
AB The Great Recession (2008-13) produced several changes in migratory flows and stock, return migration and foreigners’ legal status, employment, involvement in crime and punishment. In the international context, Italy showed some peculiarities. Unlike other South European countries, Italy did not experience a great worsening of the working conditions of immigrants. Moving from the political economy of punishment approaches (in both traditional and recent declinations), the article describes variations in migration during the recession in Italy, and particularly in immigrants’ working conditions, in order to discuss whether and how punitivity against foreigners (measured by incarceration) has been affected by changes in migrants’ inclusion within Italian society and labour market. The decline in foreigners’ imprisonment is explained by social and economic forces pertaining not to the whole Italian social structure but to a subsystem reserved for migrants that I call ‘migrant social structure’.
K1 Economic Crisis
K1 migrants’ inclusion
K1 political economy of punishment
K1 Italy
DO 10.1177/14773708211032748