http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2451 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:53:53 GMT 2026-04-14T14:53:53Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2531 Past and Current Realities about Mexican/Latino Immigration. Looking Beyond the U.S. Martinez-Brawley, Emilia; Zorita, Paz The literature including social media shows that Mexican/Latino immigrants have attracted contempt and have been traditionally objected to as a minority in the U.S. The intent here is to search for historical and other factors that might explain the public antipathy and to identify reasons that could, either in isolation or in combination with others, explain anti-immigrant sentiments among people, many of whom are descendants of immigrants. The perusal of the challenges of Mexican immigrants to the U.S through the decades will highlight some similarities related to discrimination against waves “peoples of color”, not only in the U.S. but in other parts of the world. The daily treatment within the society of immigrants of color as well as the frequent lower immigration quotas imposed on certain groups, including Mediterranean people, makes the topic quite relevant to today’s concerns. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2531 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2530 Controlling irregular immigration at the European Union’s southern maritime border. An emerging system driven by “migration emergencies" Lopez-Sala, Ana; Godenau, Dirk Over the last 25 years the southern maritime border of the European Union witnessed the interaction of considerable and increasingly complex irregular migration flows in the Mediterranean with the progressive construction and implementation of restrictive migration control policies by the European Union and its member states at their external borders. The article describes the evolving migration patterns and changes in migration routes both as a stimulus and as consequence of locally stepping up migration control at the emerging hotspots at different parts of the border, creating deviation effects in migration routes with alternative points of entry and higher costs and risks for migrants. Special attention is given to the impact of the 2015 refugee crisis on border management and the new challenges it poses to the asylum system and the protection of fundamental rights. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2530 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2529 Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics of Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective Gallego, Mar; Gualda, Estrella; Rebollo, Carolina In this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, women refugees are experiencing extreme vulnerability and violence, both during their journey and in the camps. Our objectives through this article are to analyze how women are being treated in the Social Media (images, discourses, social representations, or narratives). Data for this article were extracted from Twitter (with the help of Nodel XL Pro), from which we collected 1,807,901 tweets about “refugees”, using this word as search strings in six different languages. One complete year was covered (starting at mid-2015). Our final dataset was composed of 862,999 tweets. Results suggest that women refugees are targeted just because of their gender. Women are constantly victimized and mistreated due to the perpetuation of a patriarchal outlook that justifies abusing women. We also found many discourses disseminated through Twitter that reject refugees based on disproportionate generalizations and stereotypes, and unfounded and radicalised arguments., using gender difference to feed racism and xenophobia. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2529 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2528 Use and Abuse of History and Memory: the Istrian-Dalmatian Exodus and the Current Refugee Flows Fonzo, Erminio After the World War II, about 300.000 Italian people abandoned Istria and Dalmatia, which were annexed by Yugoslavia, and moved to Italy. The exodus is tied to the atrocities committed by the Slavic forces, the so called foibe massacres. Today the memory of these events is growing, mainly in its public-institutional representations, and many initiatives are organized to remember the exiles. Knowledge and awareness of the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, however, are limited to a minority of the population; the story is often told in an one-sided way and memory lends itself to political (and unfair) uses. The exodus is sometimes mentioned within the public discourse about the current migration flows, but, generally, memory is used to reject immigrants, and not to welcome them. Remembrance, indeed, is mainly cultivated by right-wing groups, which oppose the arrivals of foreigners. Moreover, often the associations of Istrian-Dalmatian exiles do not use the memory of their exodus to favour the reception of immigrants. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/2528 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z