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Global crimes (border criminology) VALERIA FERRARIS T H U R S D AY A N D F R I D AY 2-4 PM 10/5/24 Global mobility Global movement of people and goods is one of the distinguished features of globalisation...

Global crimes (border criminology) VALERIA FERRARIS T H U R S D AY A N D F R I D AY 2-4 PM 10/5/24 Global mobility Global movement of people and goods is one of the distinguished features of globalisation Mobility is an interesting proxy of what can be pictured as good and bad about globalisation. 2  Mobility of people represents the source of survival for national economies Global mobility Remittances Tourism Labour migration (think about Brexit)  A smaller world but a more unequal world… Global Mobility also brings hybridity that can be seen as a threat to mobility the integrity of the local communities. Patterns of mobility mirror pattens of inequality. Mobility is a stratified phenomenon  Metaphors of tourists and vagabonds (Bauman) 1. Tourists move with no effort. They want to move (globalised elite) The Tourists 2. Movement for the vagabond it is burdensome and and the forced (precarious poor) vagabonds Tourist subverts the notion of other à they are outsiders in term of membership but enjoy the full protection of the State.  And indeed, perhaps nothing more graphically illustrates the monstrous relapse the world suffered after the First World War than the restrictions on personal freedom of movement and civil rights. Before 1914 the earth belonged to the entire human race. Everyone could go where he wanted and stay there as long as he liked. No permits or visas were necessary, and I am always enchanted by the amazement of young people when I tell them that before 1914 I travelled to India and America without a passport. Global Indeed, I had never set eyes on a passport. You boarded your means of transport and got off it again, without asking or being asked any questions; you didn’t have to fill in a mobility single one of the hundred forms required today. No permits, no visas, nothing to give you trouble; the borders that today, thanks to the pathological distrust felt by everyone for everyone else, are a tangled fence of red tape, were then nothing but symbolic lines on the map, and you crossed them as unthinkingly as you can cross the meridian in Greenwich. It was not until after the war that National Socialism began destroying the world, and the first visible symptom of that intellectual epidemic of the present century was xenophobia – hatred or at least fear of foreigners. People were defending themselves against foreigners everywhere; they were kept out of everywhere. All the humiliations previously devised solely for criminals were now inflicted on every traveller before and during a journey. (Zweig The world of yesterday, 1964).  What this quotation helps us to single out? Global mobility The legal aspect (laws change across time) The building of borders and the distrust towards someone The otherness and the fear The parallel with criminals 10/5/24 Try to think about An Italian citizen going to America in 1915 An EU Citizen moving to another EU country today A Moroccan citizen moving to Italy to visit Venice An Albanian citizen going to Italy in 2006 and in 2017: what is the difference? A Chinese citizen moving from Henan to Zhejiang province or from the countryside of Zhejiang to Hangzhou. What is the issue? Global A Romanian going to Italy in 2005 and 2008: what is the mobility difference? In 2014, a Syrian citizen left Syria for Italy or Sweden. SAMPLE FOOTER TEXT What’s the difference? A woman who left Afghanistan before and after 15 August 2021. What’s the difference? 8 10/5/24 Global mobility Mobility becomes migration because of the law. The law creates and shapes concepts and classifications. Law is integral to migration: without law applicable within and across national State boundaries, what we call immigration would only be the movements of people with no legal consequences (Countin, 2000) 9  Today we can say that the optimistic view’ that the globalizing process would eventually lead to a borderless world was a mistake. US 9/11 can be identified as the turning point (but the Global mobility changes started before) and control Contemporary mobilities represent an enormous challenge for the state apparatuses trying to control them and also a measure of symbolic laws and politics.  The size of the world is relative… The world is smaller for some individuals and bigger for other individuals Global mobility and Globalisation brought more stringent border control. control The current preoccupation with the protection of borders is an intrinsic aspect of the present, deeply stratified global condition. Borders establish the limits of the community by selecting those who are allowed to enter (and under which conditions) and those who are to remain outside.  Mobilities turn in the social sciences and impact of Criminology of globalisation. mobility / This subfield is relatively recent. It focuses attention on Border the processes of inclusion and exclusion at the borders criminology / of and within states. Criminology of It is interested in membership and belonging, I identity the borders and power. It is based upon previous studies on race and ethnicity (e.g. policing the crisis by Stuart Hall) and feminism. See you next week! T H U R S D AY A N D F R I D AY 2-4 PM