ABSTRACT

Throughout Europe, the arrival of irregular migrants in recent years has triggered the expression of nativist anxieties, witnessing a broad recourse to violent rhetoric and the embrace of exclusivist models of national and regional community. With an ethnographic focus on migrant resettlement in Sicily, this paper argues that the elaboration of a cosmopolitan ethic that rejects the politics of exclusion can be met with ambivalence by local people who share neither the middle-class sensibilities of refugee advocates, nor their access to the public funds by which it is possible to earn income as social service and resettlement workers. Consequently, migrant advocacy is dogged by the widespread presumption that its aims are not necessarily altruistic, and that the apparatus of migrant resettlement is staffed by actors best positioned to take advantage of the lucrative opportunities presented by the migrant crisis. At the same time, newcomers’ incorporation into the body politic as a reserve army of labour, and the expectation imposed upon them to adapt to host communities and contribute productively to the local economy in any way they can, represents a key element of migrant marginalisation that even their own advocates do not explicitly question. Finally, this marginalisation is further exacerbated by contemporary populist rhetoric that positions newcomers as an existential threat to the society.

摘要

在整个欧洲，近年来非正常移民的到来引发了本土主义焦虑的表达，见证了广泛诉诸暴力言论以及接受国家和地区社区排他主义模式的情况。本文以西西里岛的移民重新安置为人种学重点，认为拒绝排斥政治的世界主义伦理的阐述可能会遭到当地人的矛盾心理，他们既没有难民倡导者的中产阶级敏感性，也没有获得难民的机会。可以作为社会服务和安置工作者赚取收入的公共资金。因此，移民倡导受到广泛假设的困扰，即其目标不一定是利他主义的，以及移民安置机构由最能利用移民危机带来的有利可图的机会的行动者组成。与此同时，新移民作为劳动力后备军融入政治体系，以及强加于他们的期望，以适应东道社区并尽其所能为当地经济做出富有成效的贡献，这是移民边缘化的一个关键因素。甚至他们自己的拥护者也没有明确质疑。最后，当代民粹主义言论将新移民定位为对社会的生存威胁，进一步加剧了这种边缘化。强加于他们的期望以适应东道社区并以任何可能的方式为当地经济做出富有成效的贡献，这是移民边缘化的一个关键因素，即使是他们自己的倡导者也没有明确质疑。最后，当代民粹主义言论将新移民定位为对社会的生存威胁，进一步加剧了这种边缘化。强加于他们的期望是适应东道社区并尽其所能为当地经济做出富有成效的贡献，这是移民边缘化的一个关键因素，即使是他们自己的倡导者也没有明确质疑。最后，当代民粹主义言论将新移民定位为对社会的生存威胁，进一步加剧了这种边缘化。