Extracomunitari
Encyclopedia
Extracomunitari is a uniquely Italian expression that means litterally "non appartenente alla Comunità (Europea)", "from outside the (European) Community" - European Community was the old name of the European Union
. It gained use in the 1980s 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 terrorist incidents.
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
. It gained use in the 1980s The words extracomunitari/extracomunitatio were earlier used, like their equivalent in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, 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
Salvatore Battaglia
Salvatore Battaglia born 7 November 1975 in Siracuse, Italy.Salvatore is a professional Light-Welterweight boxer. He has a boxing record of 22 wins with 5 defeats....
'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
Bettino Craxi
Benedetto Craxi was an Italian politician, head of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993, the first socialist President of the Council of Ministers of Italy from 1983 to 1987.-Political career:...
, who in August 1985 gave a speech drawing a direct link between the high number of clandestine immigrants and some terrorist incidents.
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