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La detenzione della «pericolosità migrante»
No full textThe paper proposes that immigration detention has been turned into a quick surrogate of criminal policies that the police may use for the purpose of managing the 'dangerous' populations in the urban space, with the purpose of producing a (more ideal than real) ordered and secure public space. Dangerousness and risk have recently become core concepts in the Italian immigration law with regards to detention and deportation. We found that the police and judges of the Peace abuse the rhetoric of dangerousness and risk in a way that is altering the very nature of immigration detention and its declared functions. Drawing from about 400 removal decrees and detention orders collected in Bari and Bologna, the paper argues that immigration detention in Italy is a dispositif for selecting and containing what we might name as a specific 'dangerous mobility', rather than for removing irregular immigration tout court. We will focus on how a specific 'rhetoric of dangerousness' is constructed and used by the police and judges in decisions to detain migrants
Lungo i confini dell'accoglienza. Migranti e territori tra resistenze e dispositivi di controllo
No full textAttraverso ricerche sul campo si ricostruisce l'attuale centralità della figura del richiedente asilo per il funzionamento delle politiche e delle retoriche sulla sicurezz
Immigration detention as social defence: Policing ‘dangerous mobility’ in Italy
Get PDFDrawing on an empirical study, this article explores the role of immigration detention in Italy by analysing the way a specific rhetoric of ‘dangerousness’ has developed and is being used within the framework of immigration enforcement policies. Our argument is that immigration detention has been transformed into an instrument of crime prevention and ‘social defence’, and that this transformation is fuelled by the central position that the legal categories of ‘risk’ and ‘danger’ have assumed in the regulation of the return procedure. The article contends that immigration law enforcement agencies can make use of immigration detention as a flexible control tool to manage what are perceived as the most problematic populations in urban areas, thus practising a policy of selective enforcement that while not explicitly built along racial and ethnic lines, clearly discriminates among migrants according to their ‘social marginality’ or supposed ‘social dangerousness’
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Polizia e migranti in città. Negoziare il confine nei contesti locali
No full textIl volume tratta il tema della discrezionalità del potere di polizia attraverso una ricerca sulle pratiche di controllo dei confini interni in uno spazio urbano. Dovendosi confrontare con la presenza di persone migranti irregolarizzate in un contesto di indeportabilità, la polizia è stretta nel paradosso di dover applicare una legge impossibile da far rispettare. Allora, il confine che attraversa lo spazio urbano è anche il risultato di una negoziazione – entro rapporti di potere asimmetrici – tra la pretesa di invisibilità della polizia e la richiesta di visibilità delle persone migranti. Al centro dell’analisi c’è l’interazione tra controllori e controllati per stabilire i termini di una irregolarità accettabile. Partendo dal ruolo della nascente polizia nel controllare oziosi e vagabondi, l’autrice ripercorre il dibattito dei classici della sociologia sulla polizia per poi approdare al ruolo cui questa assolve nel controllo odierno dell’immigrazione: in continuità con il tradizionale controllo della mobilità e della povertà, ma non senza innovazioni nel segno della razzializzazione della nazionalità, la polizia finisce per produrre e riprodurre l’ordine in società interessate da processi di globalizzazione e in continua trasformazione. Il risultato è una descrizione dettagliata di un meccanismo di inclusione silenziosa e subordinata di soggetti la cui presenza ostinata è contemporaneamente visibile e negata
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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