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L’integrazione territoriale degli immigrati in Italia. Caratteristiche, limiti, prospettive del terzo Rapporto CNEL/Caritas
No full textL’integrazione territoriale degli immigrati in Italia - Misurare il grado di integrazione degli stranieri in Italia è un’impresa ambiziosa e problematica al tempo stesso, poiché ha a che fare con una nozione che, investendo piani diversi, può dunque assumere significati differenti. Si tratta di restituire le dimensioni di un fenomeno qualitativo, la cui “misurazione”, se si prescinde dall’indagine campionaria, è possibile solo attraverso numeri che sono in grado di fotografare l’andamento di processi reali. Così, dopo aver vagliato circa un centinaio di dati statistici disaggregati a livello regionale, ne sono stati selezionati venti quali indicatori, secondo un criterio di pertinenza e di comparabilità. Gli indicatori prescelti sono stati quindi accorpati in quattro indici. La griglia è congegnata in modo che sia applicabile, a tutte le regioni e per ogni indicatore, un “punteggio di graduatoria”, mentre la somma dei punteggi complessivi dei quattro indici ha consentito di stilare la graduatoria finale dell’indice di integrazione. In breve, questo saggio si caratterizza per applicare un modello più articolato di lettura che consenta un confronto complessivo tra le singole regioni e che aiuti così a comprendere meglio il processo di inserimento degli stranieri nella realtà italiana.The territorial Integration of Immigrants in Italy - Estimating the integration degree of foreigners in Italy is ambitious and problematic, because it deals with integration, that, involving many aspects, can have different meanings. We have, then, to return to the dimensions of a qualitative phenomenon, the “measure” of which, if it is not a sample investigation, is possible only through numbers that draw an accurate picture of a real process.
So, after processing hundred of statistic data, not homogeneous as for regional level, we have selected twenty as indicators. These indicators have been, afterwards, unified into four ratings.
The scheme is contrived in a way that may be enforceable, to all the regions and for every indicator, a “point classification”. The addition of the whole points of the four indicators enabled to draw up the final list of the integration index. In short this essay aims at applying a more articulate reading model allowing an overall comparison among the single regions and so assisting to better realize the inclusion process of foreigners into the Italian reality
Migranti con elevate professionalità, tra bisogni e contraddizioni del mercato del lavoro
No full textIntegration and territorial Dimension
No full textThe article discusses the following topics: a) Local integration of immigrants in Italy froma a "macro" perspective: the decade-long research experience of the Cnel; b) Local aspects of integration: account of a "micro" experience; c) The contribution of local councils on immigration for the purposes of assessing levels of integration
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
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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