Extracomunitari

Extracomunitari (singular is extracomunitario) is a uniquely Italian expression, which gained use in the 1980s to designate a migrant people from Morocco, Albania, South Slavs countries, and GeneRally applied to all non-Western poor underdeveloped or developing countries. The word is typically used in racist discouses. The words extracomunitari/extracomunitatio were earlier used, like their equivalent in Spanish, only to refer to trade and deals regarding countries outside the European Union, but from the 1980s started to be used to refer derogatively to people.

The word did not appear in the 1968 volume of Salvatore Battaglia's comprehensive Grande dizionario della lingua italiana. One of the first legal uses of the term was in a 1986 imigration law, following a public discourse campaign against immigrants started by Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who in August 1985 gave a speech drawing a direct link between the high number of clandestine immigrants and some [...] incidents.

See also

• New racism

References

• Calefato, Patrizia (1994) Europa fenicia: identità linguistica, comunità, linguaggio come pratica sociale
• Dal Lago, Alessandro (2005) Non-persone: l'esclusione dei migranti in una società globale
• Guild, Elspeth and Minderhoud, Paul (2006) Immigration and criminal law in the European Union: the legal measures and social consequences of criminal law in member states on trafficking and smuggling in human beings
• Ginsborg, Paul (2003) Italy and its discontents: family, civil society, state, 1980-2001
• Marazziti and Riccardi (2005) Euráfrica (Spanish translation by David Salas Mezquita)
• Treccani, Giovanni (ed.) (2003) Il vocabolario Treccani: Sinonimi e contrari, Volume 1
• Veugelers, John P (1994) Recent Immigration Politics in Italy: A Short Story, in West European Politics 17: 33–49

Further reading

• Franchini e Guidi (1990) Una citta' bianco e nero. Extracomunitari a Modena
• Gordon e Breach (2001) Identities: global studies in culture and power: Volume 8 su google books
• Marletti, Carlo (1991) Extracomunitari. Dall'immaginario collettivo añ vissuto quotidiano del razzismo.
• Ter Wal, Jessika (1991) Il linguaggio del pregiudizio etnico, in Politica ed Economia, vol.XXII, no. 4, pp. 33–48