Luigi Manconi

Luigi Manconi, teaches Sociology of political phenomena.

Main research areas

The attitudes of social groups in relation to foreign immigration.

In particular, the study of the mechanisms that produce competition between natives and immigrants, that determine conflicts around the availability of scarce resources (services, spaces, goods), that stimulate xenophobia and intolerance. He investigated the different forms of "ethnic conflict" and the role that political-institutional subjects play in their diffusion, working around the concept of "political entrepreneur of intolerance".

The deviances, the addictions, the rights of citizenship.

In particular, the study of the issue of drug addiction and public policies on drugs. In recent years he has studied how deviance produces social stigmatisation and how stigma perpetuates the mechanisms of exclusion. It also analysed recovery and rehabilitation strategies in their main approaches: that of therapeutic communities and that of "harm reduction" policies.

Total institutions and deprivation of liberty.

In particular, the study of the relationship between crime and social alarm and between economic crisis and moral panic. He focused his attention on critical events: self-harm, attempted suicides and suicides, investigating the relationships between the prison environment (rules, languages, relationships) and the suicidal phenomenon and between integration into the system and the ability of the inmate to adapt.

Since 1987, he has been one of the Italian scholars of the phenomenon of immigration, considered in particular in its impact on the resident population. The scientific research work on that theme has produced in the following years three volumes, published by the Feltrinelli publishing house, and written by Manconi himself with Laura Balbo: I razzismi possibili (1990). Real racism (1992). Racism. A vocabulary (1993).

The scientific project of a monitoring of the acts of hostility towards foreigners has seen its first realization in the dossier "More than one a day. Acts of violence against foreigners during 1996: analysis of 20 newspapers", followed by "The torn veil. Acts of violence against foreigners during 1997 and 1998: analysis of 20 newspapers"; "Acts of violence against immigrants during the first 9 months of 2000: analysis of 20 Italian newspapers" and "Questione di Pelle - atti di violenza contro gli stranieri nell'informazione quotidiana".

Since 2001 he has been president of A Buon Diritto. Association for freedom and responsible for sites abuondiritto.it, innocentievasioni.net, italiarazzismo.it.

Since 2011, it has promoted the establishment of "legal aid", a structure of lawyers who provide legal assistance and work at a legal desk to ensure the defense of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants.

Social surveys

2010 - 2011 Giving Confidence. Research on micro-credit for foreign workers and small entrepreneurs.

2001-2009 Research on "Languages and modes of action of contemporary Italian terrorism in the new international context".

2000-2005 Research on "Suicide and self-harm in total institutions

Public activity

He was the first guarantor of persons deprived of their liberty in a municipal administration, that of Rome, from January 2004 to June 2006.

Political activity

Senator of the Republic for two legislatures (1994-1996, 1996-2001), he was secretary of the Presidency of the Senate.

He was State Secretary for Justice in the second Prodi government (2006-2008).

He is currently a columnist for the newspaper Il Messaggero

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Main publications

- The foreigner without rights and the representation of the enemy in Italian Europeans n.1/2012

- (with Valentina Calderone) When they opened the cell. Stefano Cucchi and others Il Saggiatore 2011

- (with Federica Resta) The enemy within itself. Ideology and immigration policy in Isabella Peretti (ed.) Schengenland. Immigration: policies and cultures in Europe, Ediesse 2010

- A soul for the Pd. The left and the sad passions, Nutrimenti 2009

- Italian terrorists. The Red Brigades and the Total War 1970-2008, Rizzoli 2008

- (with Andrea Boraschi) Pain and politics. Therapeutic care, biological will, freedom of care Bruno Mondadori 2007

- (with Andrea Boraschi) When they opened the cell it was already late because... Suicide and self-injury in prison, in "Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia", n. 1/2006"

- (with Roberta Dameno) Dignity in dying, Guerini, Milan 2003

- That's how you die in jail. Suicides and acts of self-harm in places of punishment, in "Politica del Diritto", n. 2, June 2002

- (with Raimondo Catanzaro) Storie di lotta armata, Il Mulino, Bologna 1995

- Solidarity, selfishness. Good deeds, uncertain movements, new conflicts, the Mill, Bologna 1990

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