Behind Bars, Italy’s Securitarian Project of Debilitation Takes Shape
This investigative feature examines Italy’s carceral infrastructure and securitarian policies under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, focusing on the case of Kurdish-Iranian feminist activist Maysoon Majdi, who was arrested upon arrival as a migrant and charged with human smuggling. The article traces how Italian state power has weaponized detention systems—spanning prisons, migrant detention centres, and facilities like the Gjader centre in Albania—as instruments of both migration management and political repression. Recent legislation including Decreto Cutro, Decreto Caivano, and Decreto Sicurezza has intensified carceral conditions and expanded detention regimes targeting both undocumented migrants and political dissidents. The analysis reveals a strategic continuum between criminal imprisonment and administrative detention, wherein architectural and punitive infrastructure serves a unified project of debilitation against populations deemed threats to national security, illustrating how built environments of confinement operationalize ideological control.
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