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date: 14 April 2021

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This chapter examines the main migration flows concerning the countries of southern Europe; those are a) the immigration from developed countries b) the so-called ‘new emigration’, and c) the persistent flow of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. They receive a very different treatment in local political debates, which are dominated by the concern for ‘the crisis,’ (i. e., the whole range of economic, social, and political changes arising from neoliberal globalization). While discussing the current literature on these topics, the chapter shows how these flows are politically constructed for the purposes of the establishment. At the same time, the chapter highlights the relationships between these trends and the general changes affecting southern European countries.

Keywords: southern Europe, lifestyle migration, new emigration, Mediterranean countries, crisis, discoursepopulism social movements

Domenico Maddaloni

Domenico Maddaloni is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Salerno, Department of Political, Social, and Communication Sciences and head of the Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER, Athens). He is also a fellow of the Instituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali [Italian National Research Council], Rome. He works mainly on social change, migration, welfare, and local development.

Grazia Moffa

Grazia Moffa is currently an assistant professor of economic sociology at the University of Salerno, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences. She is also the director of the recently established UniSa Migration research laboratory. She mainly works on local development, labor market, and migration issues from a gender perspective.

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