Torture, Structural Violence and Migration

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_11705
dc.contributor.author	Perocco Fabio
dc.title	Torture, Structural Violence and Migration
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay highlights that torture has become a structural element of the migratory experience in most of the world, especially as a result of the worsening of the conditions of migration and the torture crisis. Considering several contexts (Central America-US, Balkans, North Africa), this essay examines the factors underlying such processes and points out that mistreatment of migrants is related to the tightening of migration policies and the escalation of institutional racism, which – with securitisation policies, politics of fear, hyper-detention, theories on the criminal law of the enemy – favour contexts permeable to violence towards migrants.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-11
dc.dateAccepted	2022-07-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-08-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-636-7/torture-structural-violence-and-migration/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-635-0/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-636-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-635-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Migrants
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Racism
dc.subject	Structural violence
dc.subject	Torture

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Torture, Structural Violence and Migration

Fabio Perocco Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This essay highlights that torture has become a structural element of the migratory experience in most of the world, especially as a result of the worsening of the conditions of migration and the torture crisis. Considering several contexts (Central America-US, Balkans, North Africa), this essay examines the factors underlying such processes and points out that mistreatment of migrants is related to the tightening of migration policies and the escalation of institutional racism, which – with securitisation policies, politics of fear, hyper-detention, theories on the criminal law of the enemy – favour contexts permeable to violence towards migrants.

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Jan. 11, 2023

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July 4, 2022

Submitted

Aug. 1, 2022

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978-88-6969-636-7

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978-88-6969-635-0

Keywords: Torture • Migration • Racism • Migrants • Structural violence

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