From Utility to Responsibility: Immigration as a Legal Relationship

Integrazione o ReImmigrazione · Dec 26, 2025 · 5m

From Utility to Responsibility: Immigration as a Legal Relationship Welcome to a new episode of the podcast Integration or ReImmigration.

I am Attorney Fabio Loscerbo. If the economic paradigm has failed, the reason is not difficult to identify. It treated immigration as a question of usefulness, not of responsibility. It asked what migrants could provide to the market, but avoided asking what legal relationship was being established between the individual and the State. As a result, permanence slowly transformed from a conditional status into an assumed entitlement. To move beyond this…