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Feria-Toribio, José María; Iglesias-Pascual, Ricardo y Benassi, Federico (eds.) (2024). Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe : [Ressenya] Exploring Metropolitan Structural Processes and Short-term Change
No full textObra ressenyada: Feria-Toribio, José María; Iglesias-Pascual, Ricardo y Benassi, Federico (eds.) (2024) Socio-Spatial Dynamics in Mediterranean Europe: Exploring Metropolitan Structural Processes and Short-term Change Cham (Suiza): Springer, VII, 375 p. ISBN 978-3-031-55435-
La demografia urbana di Pisa: stranieri residenti e connotazioni dei diversi territori cittadini
No full textGli obiettivi del contributo sono quelli di fornire una descrizione puntuale delle diverse realtà cittadine pisane con particolare riferimento alla popolazione straniera e ai suoi modelli insediativi; studiare, sempre a livello sub-comunale, il potenziale malessere urbano in modo da evidenziarne eterogeneità spaziali e peculiarità locali; misurare infine quale relazione esiste tra il potenziale malessere urbano e la presenza straniera: è la maggiore presenza straniera a favorire un potenziale malessere urbano più intenso o viceversa? In quali zone tale relazione è statisticamente significativa? Queste zone sono effettivamente quelle a maggior presenza straniera
Detecting Foreigners' Spatial Residential Patterns in Urban Contexts: Two Tales from Italy
No full textThe paper presents an original application of the Gini’s centre of population (MC) and its Standard Deviational Ellipse (SDE) in the field of spatial distribution of foreigners. The proposed measures have been applied to the top five foreign communities (and Italians) counted in 2011 Italian demographic census in the municipality of Rome and Naples. The results show that, compared to Italians, in both municipalities the communities coming from Asia show spatial distributions characterized by quite clear residential patterns: a tendency to have high levels of spatial concentration and the centre of gravity (or mean centre) located at comparatively high distances from the one of the Italians. On the contrary, the communities coming from Central and Eastern Europe present a spatial residential pattern characterized by a quite high level of spatial dispersion and a centre of gravity very close to the one of the Italians. In an intermediate situation between these two spatial patterns there are the Peruvians. Some explanatory hypotheses are advanced. The Gini’s centre of population and its Standard Deviational Ellipse seem capable to synthesize the spatial distribution of foreign population and to detect their residential patterns
Households in potential economic distress. A geographically weighted regression model for Italy, 2001-2011
No full textThe potential economic distress of households is a phenomenon bound up with a very broad set of economic, demographic and social factors. This paper is concerned with the identification of these factors and of how their spatial variability influences the spatial variability of the Share of Households in Potential Economic Distress (SHED). To this end, a model of geographically weighted regression (GWR) is calculated for the SHED observed in the 110 Italian provinces at the time of the last two censuses (2001 and 2011). The results show that the SHED and its determinants present a sharply defined geographical pattern that varies over the ten-year interval
Foreign Citizens Working in Italy: Does Space Matter?
No full textIn the last decade (2001–2011) foreign population in Italy as tripled showing, from one hand, a strong tendency to become a structural phenomenon and, on the other hand, clear spatial patterns of distribution. Quite surprisingly just few study analyze foreign presence in Italy taking into account in a direct form the spatial dimension. Thanks to a GWR model in this contribution we study the geographical variation of the share of foreigners employed (y) within each of 110 Italian provinces (nuts 3) in function of some independent variables. Results confirm that the space matters: the dependent variable is significantly affected by the provincial variability of the unemployment rate of Italians as well as by other conditions of the phenomenon being studied, represented by the constant of the model
In-between centers and suburbs? Increasing differentials in recent demographic dynamics of Italian metropolitan cities
Full text linkVerifying the intrinsic stability of demographic processes over time and space is a pivotal task from both science and policy perspectives. Compared with other regions of the old continent, a latent peculiarity of demographic systems in Southern Europe is their persistent heterogeneity over space, especially observed across metropolitan regions. ‘Centers’ and ‘peripheries’ are thus becoming representative of, respectively, territories undergoing demographic growth and decline. The former corresponds to urban areas, being attractive for different population segments. The present study illustrates the results of a statistical analysis of total population data over time (2011–2020) and its decomposition in natural increase and net migration rates in 14 metropolitan cities of Italy. Assuming that central and peripheral (e.g., suburbs) locations show differential trends of natural increase and net migration, our analysis verifies whether (i) central locations behave homogeneously in terms of population dynamics, and whether (ii) a North–South gradient holds. Results indicate how (metropolitan) demographic patterns no longer reflect a traditional gap between Northern and Southern regions, while outlining a subtler divide in growing and declining contexts. The few still-growing metropolitan areas were all located in North-Central Italy, and reflect more polarized socioeconomic contexts than in the past. Internal migration was likely the most powerful factor that discriminates growing from declining cities. Such evidence indicates that strengthening the self-restraining capacity of Southern Italian territories contributes to increase their attractiveness of international migration flows, counteracting demographic shrinkage
Labour Market Integration of the Migratory Generations: an Exploratory Analysis using Census Data
No full textIn the recent past, also in Italy, studies on international migrations and foreign presence have focused attention on the socio-economic integration of the second generations of immigrants. The aim of this work is to analyse the labour market integration of the first and the second generation of immigrants in Italy in order to understand if, and how, there are differences in terms of job access and professional qualifications, also in a gender and citizenship perspective. Does the economic integration change according to the age at arrival? Do men and women have the same job profiles? Does the citizenship affect the access and the integration in the labour market
On the relationship between mean and variance of world's human population density: A study using Taylor's power law
No full textAnimal ecology has devoted a great deal of effort to the study of the relations between the variance (V) and the average (M) of the density of a group of sub-populations (pi) belonging to the same territorial system, and thus, it has been possible to develop several ‘laws’. Among these laws, one of the best known is Taylor’s power law (TL), which provides that between V and M, there is a power law. Several studies have appeared on this topic only recently in the field of human demography, mainly those of Cohen and colleagues. This is quite surprising given the extreme importance of the population density indicator in population studies. This paper, for the first time, tests the relations between V and M at the world level by working on the sub-populations (pi) resident in each country belonging to five continents and following a long-term perspective (1950–2017). To estimate the unknown parameters of the relation we make use a simultaneous equation system (SUR). The results show that TL is verified in two out of five cases (Asia, and America), while in three cases (Africa, Europe and Oceania), a quadratic relationship shows better results
Old but gold: The use of multiregional life tables and the place-of-birth-dependent approach for studying recent internal migration in Italy
Full text linkThere has been a significant shift in migratory behavior within Italy over time.
The origins and destinations of the migration flows, which were previously
characterized by a clear prevalence of moving from the south to the center-north,
are now much more heterogeneous and complex. Despite the important progress
achieved in the past 20 years, the measurement of internal migration remains a
contentious topic in international research. Using data provided by the Italian
National Institute of Statistics, we applied Rogers’ multiregional model place-ofbirth-dependent approach to assess the internal migration flows that occurred in
Italy in the period 2002 – 2013. This approach provides accurate measurements of
internal migration, noting in particular the years of life expectancy for each birth
cohort living in each geographical Italian macroregion (northeast, northwest,
center, and south). The results indicate that the northwest is the main area of
destination for internal migration. The birth cohort in the south is the one that
has the greatest number of years of life expectancy in other macroregions.
Interestingly, this cohort is the only one characterized by a predominantly male
migratory model
Recent Demographic Trends in the Major Italian Urban Agglomerations: The Role of Foreigners
No full textRecent works have highlighted how many of the major urban agglomerations in Italy are undergoing a new phase of demographic growth. This could be called reurbanization phase according to the theory of spatial cycles and the underlying model of urban life cycle. The occurrence of this phenomenon in a decade when the foreign resident population has tripled could be not only a coincidence. The primary aim of the article is to evaluate the contribution of internal and international migration to the population dynamics of eight Italian urban agglomerations (Turin, Milan, Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo) during the period 2001–2010. Secondly, the article analyzes the main demographic features of the foreign resident population in those eight urban settings in order to find potential regularities or discontinuities both across and within (core and rings) the selected urban agglomerations. The demographic censuses as well as administrative data from municipal population registers have been used to compute elementary indicators then synthetized by multidimensional data analysis. The results obtained show that in all the urban agglomerations of the Centre-North the population expansion in the last decade is mostly or entirely driven by the foreign component in the centre and periphery alike. On the contrary, growth in the main urban areas located in the Southern region is stagnant despite the contribution (not as relevant anyway) from the foreign population. Regarding the characteristics of foreign population important differential aspects coming out not only across but also
within the same urban agglomerations
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