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dc.contributor.authorCarbone, MB-
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-27T16:59:17Z-
dc.date.available2023-04-27T16:59:17Z-
dc.date.issued2023-04-27-
dc.identifierORCID iD: Marco Benoît Carbone https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0037-0883-
dc.identifier.citationCarbone, M.B. (2023) 'Migrants, Refugees, Invaders: Responses to the Riace Model’s inclusive citizenship project', Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 28 (4: special Issue: 'Futures in Post-displacement Italy'), pp. 415 - 432. doi: 10.1080/1354571X.2023.2198288.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1354-571X-
dc.identifier.urihttps://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/26328-
dc.description.abstractCopyright © 2023 The Author(s)..In imagining a post-nationalistic and post-racialized future, the refugee hospitality and integration project implemented in Italy, known as the Modello Riace (Riace Model), sought to use state-funded, sustainable activities to encourage asylum seekers to mix with locals and settle in the economically depressed and depopulated areas of southern Italy. The project navigated legal frameworks and defied rampant ethno-nationalism to integrate refugees during the Mediterranean migrant crisis and to mitigate the associated climate of hostility towards them. The experiment prompted a political backlash and stirred paranoia about an imagined ethnic replacement of Italians. This paper introduces the Riace Model’s humanitarian vision and its interaction with the social solidarity economic sector in Italy after the 2008 financial crisis. It analyses interviews with the then-mayor of Riace, Domenico Lucano, and their reception on social media, to examine notions of humanitarianism and citizenship in Italy. Highlighting the contrast between Riace’s imagined future and hostile views of refugees as invaders and criminals, the study demonstrates the conflict that arose at a time of economic austerity. The study also illustrates how public figures became proxies for opposing factions, discusses the Model’s legacy, and highlights the challenges facing future integration schemes.en_US
dc.format.extent415 - 432-
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dc.languageEnglish-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge (Taylor & Francis Group)en_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.-
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dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectrefugeesen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjecthumanitarianismen_US
dc.subjectintegrationen_US
dc.subjectpopulismen_US
dc.titleMigrants, Refugees, Invaders: Responses to the Riace Model’s inclusive citizenship projecten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2023.2198288-
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Modern Italian Studies-
pubs.issueSpecial Issue: 'Futures in Post-displacement Italy'-
pubs.issue4-
pubs.publication-statusPublished onine-
pubs.volume28-
dc.identifier.eissn1469-9583-
dc.rights.holderThe Author-
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