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Questioning Illegality in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Overview of African Migrant Groups in Rome
No full textThe issue of illegal migration is today part of the public debate and has begun to interest European scholars in conjunction with the changing political panorama that in the 1990s was affected by a new era of international migration. The phenomenon of migration is seen as a problem of public order, and therefore as linked to the issue of security. Restrictive policies throughout Europe have driven migrants to illegal methods of entry and residence. But what exactly does illegality mean? How is this concept constructed and represented by various social actors? How is it produced by institutions? In this article, we focus on the meaning of ʻliving illegallyʼ in migrantsʼ everyday life in Italy. Through the results of ethnographic research among African migrant groups in Rome, we attempt to question the concept of legality, analysing forms of construction and incorporation of illegality, the perceptions and representations of social actors towards working practices and the obtaining of documents, and finally, forms of ʻillegalʼ construction of legality in which the migrantsʼ agency gives life to new forms of alternative citizenship and resistance through the elaboration of survival strategies
Questioning Illegality in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Overview of African Migrant Groups in Rome
No full textThe issue of illegal migration is today part of the public debate
and has begun to interest European scholars in conjunction
with the changing political panorama that in the 1990s was
affected by a new era of international migration. The
phenomenon of migration is seen as a problem of public order,
and therefore as linked to the issue of security. Restrictive
policies throughout Europe have driven migrants to illegal
methods of entry and residence. But what exactly does
illegality mean? How is this concept constructed and
represented by various social actors? How is it produced by
institutions? In this article, we focus on the meaning of ʻliving
illegallyʼ in migrantsʼ everyday life in Italy. Through the results
of ethnographic research among African migrant groups in
Rome, we attempt to question the concept of legality, analysing
forms of construction and incorporation of illegality, the
perceptions and representations of social actors towards
working practices and the obtaining of documents, and finally,
forms of ʻillegalʼ construction of legality in which the migrantsʼ
agency gives life to new forms of alternative citizenship and
resistance through the elaboration of survival strategies
Studi, in I con-testi del biografico: fonte, metodo e genere dell'antropologia culturale
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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
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