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ESTABLISHED OR OUTSIDERS? Rileggere Elias nella collettività tunisina di Modena
Full text linkThe works of Elias, characterised by his unique relational and processual gaze, have recently inspired much research in the migration field. In particular, the established-outsiders figuration has opened a fruitful way to overcome the tendency of naturalising cultural and economic differences, hiding the power relations among different groups.
The objective of this paper is to apply the figurational framework to the study of the Tunisian community living in Modena (Northern Italy). The originality of the study resides in the choice of a particular figuration in which three interdependent groups are present: the Italian autochthones, the elder Tunisian community and the new group of Tunisians arrived after 2011.
Following the process of establishment of the elder part of the Tunisian community we observe how a structural change in the figuration (as the arrival of a new group of Tunisian people) had deep social and symbolic consequences, hindering the integration of the old Tunisians in the Modenese context.
The study marks an advancement in the application of the established-outsiders figuration in the migration studies and constitutes a valid example for analysing the integration of increasingly older migrant communities in Italy
The economic backstage of the landings of emigrants on the island of Lampedusa. An exemplary case of migration industry
Full text linkThis article focuses on Lampedusa as an exemplary case study of eco-nomic transformation brought about by migration, as well as the creation of a ‘mi-gration industry’.On the basis of interviews with key informants and a reconstruction of the secondaryliterature, it shows how migration has given international visibility to the island,starting from the first arrivals of emigrants in the 1990s, through the increase inlandings during the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, and up to the present. This has fed var-ious processes of conversion from an economy based on fishing towards an economybuilt around relatively recent tourism. Furthermore, it highlights how the national,European and international policies of migration governance have contributed tocreating an industry based on consumption by the military, police, volunteers, healthand humanitarian personnel present on the island and the impact this has had on thelocal service sector
Generation of ‘Immigrant’ Generations
Full text linkIn addition to the age factor and the way in which the passage of time and history can be seen as a succession of generations, the concept of generation must also be thought of as a mode of classification that is necessarily contested. Immigration poses a question of generation that is special in that it, firstly, involves the addition of an external factor in the evolution of a society and, secondly, involves the creation of a new type of generational identification within that society. The social milieu of immigrants therefore represents a laboratory where all the latent meanings engendered by the relationships between the individuals and the group and between the different generations may be studied
The migratory crossroads of Alte Ceccato: an emblematic case of migratory stratification
Full text linkItaly acts as a migratory crossroads in which emigration, immigration, and
internal migration continuously overlap. These processes have affected not
only large cities, but also small towns such as Alte Ceccato (Veneto Region).
After WWII this small industrial town received immigrants from the surrounding
countryside, then from Southern Italy, and since the 1990s from the so-called
Global South. Today it receives refugees from sub-Saharan Africa. Adopting the
analytical tool of migratory stratification, we discuss Alte Ceccato as a peculiar
example of the mixture of social, cultural, demographic and urban changes
driven by migration on multiple geographical scales
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Assessment of Aerodynamics Models for Wind Turbines Aeroelasticity
No full textA comprehensive computational tool for the aeroelastic analysis of horizontal axis
wind turbines (HAWT) is presented. The proposed aeroelastic tool couples a nonlinear
beam model for blades structural dynamics with an unsteady state-space sectional
aerodynamic model taking into account dynamic stall. Three-dimensional wake inflow
effects are described by a Boundary Element Method for the solution of incompressible,
potential, attached flows. To this aim, different coupling approaches are compared. The
resulting aeroelastic differential system is integrated through the Galerkin method, with
the introduction of a novel technique for the spatial integration of the additional
aerodynamic states related to wake vorticity and dynamic stall. Periodic blade
responses are determined by a harmonic balance approach. The effectiveness of the
proposed unsteady aerodynamic modelling is discussed, with numerical and
experimental comparisons
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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