THE SOCIO-LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF OTHERNESS UNDER * A NEO-LIBERAL REGIME: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts

Ajzenstadt, Mimi; Shapira, Assaf

doi:10.1093/bjc/azs020

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“…Therefore, dehumanization is characterized by a perception that the dehumanized lack secondary emotions and/or "prosocial" values such as civility, morality, self-control (Pérez et al 2001). Lacking self-control, they are somehow "naturally" immoral, thus must be subject to regulation and control (Ajzenstadt and Shapira 2012).…”

Section: The Defining Framementioning

confidence: 99%

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Framing “The Gypsy Problem”: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014–2019)

Cervi

Tejedor

2020

Social Sciences

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Xenophobic arguments have long been at the center of the political discourse of the Lega party in Italy, nonetheless Matteo Salvini, the new leader, capitalizing on diffused Romaphobia, placed Roma people at the center of his political discourse, institutionalizing the “Camp visit” as an electoral event. Through the analysis of eight consecutive electoral campaigns, in a six year period, mixing computer-based quantitative and qualitative content analysis and framing analysis, this study aims to display how Roma communities are portrayed in Matteo Salvini’s discourse. The study describes how “Gypsies” are framed as a threat to society and how the proposed solution—a bulldozer to raze all of the camps to the ground—is presented as the only option. The paper concludes that representing Roma as an “enemy” that “lives among us”, proves to be the ideal tool to strengthen the “us versus them” tension, characteristic of populist discourse.

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Section: The Defining Framementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dehumanization often intersects with another othering strategy: criminalization. Roma are not only placed in a social category outside of the norm, they are openly positioned outside the law, generating a perception of potential danger, the greatest catalyst to requiring their removal or containment (Ajzenstadt and Shapira 2012).…”

Section: The Defining Framementioning

confidence: 99%

Framing “The Gypsy Problem”: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014–2019)

Cervi

Tejedor

2020

Social Sciences

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“…The foreign worker program was concomitant with overall changes from collectivist welfare state policies towards neoliberal economic policies (Kemp, 2004;Ajzenstadt and Shapira, 2012;Bartram, 2005). It also enabled further separation and independence from the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and within Israel.…”

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Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

Venkatesh

2019

IJMBS

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This paper provides a conceptual intervention through an analysis of the myths surrounding agricultural citizenship and migrant work that underlie the temporary foreign worker program in two settler countries: Canada and Israel. The paper offers a brief insight into the ideologies around farm work that informed the colonisation and dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the expropriation of non-citizen labour. It begins with a historical overview of how agriculture was used as a tool of colonisation even as settlers struggled to cultivate Canadian lands because of the seasonal nature and the persistent lack of labour. From the time of Confederation, agriculture began to be intimately tied with immigration policies culminating in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) that persists to this day. The paper then expands the analysis to Israel to show how other settler nations have also followed similar ideological and policy trajectories. The paper illustrates how racial capitalism intertwines with settler colonial practices discursively and institutionally through immigration policies.

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“…Criminological identifiers of the Other are contingent upon the cultural and social processes that are linked to the dominant context-specific themes of any given society. The social identification, categorisation, and 'ontologisation' of the Other (Ahmed 2000) marks the imagined boundaries of the community, and hence the methods for inclusion (Ajzenstadt and Shapira 2012;Anderson 2013). Consequently, those who reside outside of the moral boundaries and 'regimes of power' are 'devalued, and their voices and perspectives are largely suppressed' (Spalek 2008, p. 4).…”

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The Black Criminal Other as an Object of Social Control

Williams

Clarke

2018

Social Sciences

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Throughout this paper, we contend that the 'gang' has been appropriated by the state as an ideological device that drives the hypercriminalisation of black, mixed, Asian, and other minority ethnic (BAME) communities. Drawing upon two research studies, we demonstrate how the gang is evoked to explain an array of contemporary 'crime' problems, which in turn (re)produces racialised objects to be policed. With particular reference to collective punishments, we suggest that "gang-branding" is critical to the development of guilt-producing associations that facilitate the arrest, charging, and prosecution of countless numbers of BAME people for offences they did not commit. As such, there is now an urgent need to 'take seriously' the criminalising intents of a dangerous criminology of the Other, which legitimises intrusive racist policing and surveillance, and justifies the imposition of deliberate harms upon racialised communities. and political context, we detect the reproduction of the black folk devil, which was communicated as a threat to social order and values of 'Britishness', as those people were not 'like us'. As such, rather than responding to the contemporary concerns of interpersonal, domestic, and structural violence, we suggest that the primary function of the gang industry in England and Wales is to secure the normative boundaries of the imagined (white) society against the incursion of black and brown bodies.

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THE SOCIO-LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF OTHERNESS UNDER * A NEO-LIBERAL REGIME: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts

Cited by 41 publications

References 42 publications

Framing “The Gypsy Problem”: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014–2019)

Framing “The Gypsy Problem”: Populist Electoral Use of Romaphobia in Italy (2014–2019)

Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

The Black Criminal Other as an Object of Social Control

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