Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century

Salvatore Palidda is Professor of Sociology at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is the author of many publications on migrations and social control, and since 1995 has directed a number of European projects related to the themes explored in this book. His most recent book (co-edited with Alessandro Dal Lago) is Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society: The Civilization of War (2010).

1: Introduction; I: General Overview; 2: A Review of the Principal European Countries; 3: Do Conflicts between Cultures Really Exist? A Historical and Methodological Reflection 1; 4: Using Gender to Shape Difference: The Doctrine of Cultural Offence and Cultural Defence; 5: Media Discourse on Immigration: Control Practices and the Language we Live; 6: The Detention Machine; 7: The Metamorphosis of Asylum in Europe: From the Origins of 'Fake Refugees' to their Internment 1; 8: The (re)Criminalization of Roma Communities in a Neoliberal Europe; 9: The U.S. Penal Experiment; II: National Case Studies; 10: Delinquency, Victimization, Criminalization and Penal Treatment of Foreigners in France; 11: Criminalization and Victimization of Immigrants in Germany; 12: The Construction of Migrants as a Risk Category in the Spanish Penal System; 13: The Italian Crime Deal; III: Particular Practices; 14: The Road to Racial Profiling Was Paved by Immigrants; 15: England: At the Forefront in the Punishment of Minors 1