Securitizzando differenze etniche: Il caso della popolazione Uigura nella regione del Xinjiang

Taking into consideration the increasingly restrictive and oppressive control of the Chinese government over its Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities, more specifically, over the Uyghurs, this dissertation will investigate the ongoing process of securitization of their very ethnic difference. In order to do that, firstly a theoretical framework and brief literature review will be provided. Secondly, a historical revisit will be done to elucidate how securitization was undertaken and within which historical context was it constructed. Thirdly, three different explanatory factors will be inspected to attempt to understand governmental decisions towards securitization, and, finally, an analysis of the macro-securitization of terrorism and the specific instruments undertaken by the Chinese War on Terror will be investigated to attempt to figure out its mechanisms and potential consequences on the Uyghurs.