IL CAPRO ESPIATORIO IN ITALIA PERCHE L’IMMIGRATO E DIVENTATO IL NEMICO PUBBLICO NUMERO UNO
The scapegoat in Italy Why immigrant became the public enemy number one

Author(s): Alice De Bortoli
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Vasiliana ’98
Summary/Abstract: The generation born between the 80's and the first 90’s in Italy,has lived under the media and institutional bombing against immigrants. The only fault of this generation was the expectation for a better standard of living that their countries gave them. Therefore, they chose the cities of the West as destination, which found itself in a very difficult moment. For example, the first oil crisis, on 1973, incited the governments in rebuilding the economic system, transforming it in a neoliberal economic system, which decreased the prices to disadvantage the common workers. In this contest, migrant workers have covered an essential role in the western economy, because of the particular juridical position of themselves.The political and juridical position of the strangers, constituted by the lack of rights and privileges, allowed the exploitation of the immigrants by the factories, without consequences. This essay analyzes the continue decreasing of migrant’s rights in history. For this purpose, analyzing the important legislative decrees that have been adopted in Italy in the last twenty years, is evident the attitude to criminalize the immigrants. The first aim of this essay is the demystification of the political process and of the media, in order to observe facts from a neutral and incisive perspective. The goal is to release from the mood of hate against immigrants, a mood sadly familiar for the 90's generation. All that is against democracy, the same democracy that western countries are proud of. These countries have forgotten all of this,remembering us some aspects of absolutism, and even totalitarianism.

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