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This chapter introduces the case studies that compose the second part of the book, providing a theoretical framework on the moral dimension of anti-immigrant hate speech. Based on classic references in the social sciences and their application into contemporary contexts, this work discusses the function of fear and hatred as producers of social ties. It argues that these elements allow the construction and legitimation of strong and practically instantaneous moral ties in groups characterized by a fragile, threatened, or incipient sociability. Therefore, these resources operate by mobilizing collective identifications based on the enunciation of a “we”. This “we” is surrounded by threats which it is compelled to oppose radically, drastically, and inflexibly to ensure self-preservation. Along these lines, the “ecstasies of hatred” become central in a world where the notions of “inside” and “outside” are tensioned in an unsolvable paradox: States reveal themselves incapable of regulating inflows and outflows within the framework of a neoliberal “order” that requires them, simultaneously and in a contradictory way, to open and close their borders and boundaries.
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The modifications in its dominant, residual, or emergent character (Williams 1977) are articulated on various sociological concomitants (such as those referred to in the various chapters of this book), by virtue of which they gain or lose persuasiveness and, therefore, legitimacy.
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Mutatis mutandis, this is valid for their mutual relationships and overlaps, which are also always and inevitably configured and articulated locally, in the same way as their “components” (as can be seen in the case of gender in relation to dimensions such as “affect”, “care”, “kinship” or “domesticity” in Chap. 3).
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This chapter was translated from Spanish to English by Menara Guizardi and Christine Ann Hills.
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Noel, G.D. (2021). Hate Speech as a Moral Narrative. In: Guizardi, M. (eds) The Migration Crisis in the American Southern Cone. Latin American Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68161-6_4
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