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Exploring the living conditions of unaccompanied migrant children (MSNA) in Italy: a grounded theory approach
No full textHuman Rights Enforcement
No full textHuman rights are one of the main branches of international and European Union law. Developed after the end of the Second World War as a reaction of war atrocities, the international law concerning human rights has achieved two important goals: the recognition of fundamental rights in favour of all human beings without distinction of any kind, and the imposition on every State of the international community to develop laws and policies compliant with the very core of fundamental rights.
The recognition of human rights has been accompanied by the creation of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms. At the international universal level, within the United Nations Organization, it has been established a system of continuous dialogue between specialized UN organs and member States. While in some regional contexts (between them, Europe has the most evolved system) we also find international Courts that are in many cases able to adopt binding acts against States.
The international and regional systems of organs aiming at the protection of fundamental rights have given an extremely impulse to the continuous developments of human rights, creating new rights and interpreting them accordingly with the evolving societies. This work has favored the implementation of principles such as freedom, equality and justice for all, that should be at the very base of all human societies
Identity and Culture
No full textWhy an intercultural glossary today? How does interculturalism deal with the cultural shifts led by the resurgence of populism in Europe leading towards increasingly close-minded and selfish attitudes? Are the social sciences helpful in the implementation of an intercultural approach? How to teach students the fundamentals of interculturalism? Over the last years, the fierce populisms raising around Europe has been a strong enemy of interculturalism which grow weaker in front of the simplest solutions provided by intolerance and racism. Social sciences provide strong concepts to be grounded in social policy, urban administration, education, and interreligious dialogue. Drawing from sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, education, human geography, and international law, the book offers a list of 18 «middle-range concepts»– as social integration, migration governance, cultural identity, participation, citizenship, reflexivity, resilience - and «thematic issues», like overcoming racism, revitalising urban periphery, and human rights enforcement. Each entry includes elements of reflection for the development of practices and projects coping with major societal challenges in the extra-academic areas. The book, written by a multi-national pool of European academic lectures, is meant to facilitate all actors committed to the building of a more inclusive society
Revitalising Urban Peripheries
No full textThrough urban expansion, cities have continued to generate new peripheries, but these are no longer included in a common, comprehensive project as would have occurred – albeit in a subordinate way – at the time of the industrial city.
In the public narrative and in media coverage, the peripheries remain on the margins of innovation, know-how, culture and the workplace. They are thus considered as unlikely places for decision-making, for being of importance and for making themselves heard. In other words, the peripheries are marginalised and reduced to a dimension of extreme relegation.
Our reflection on this topic arises from the fact that although there are many studies in international literature that deal with this theme, urban peripheries have not been uniformly defined. As a result, we often equate the term periphery as a place lacking quality and positive characteristics, a place to where poor people and migrants are relegated. Using the distinction between “old” and “new” peripheries as a starting point, this chapter aims to address this relational concept, always linked to another on which it depends, in this case that of the “centre”, by interpreting it in the plural. In fact, there is not just one periphery, but many peripheries, each with its own characteristics and potential. In this respect, each periphery is not just the result of a simple fact or distance, but the product of choices and policies.
These reflections lead us to consider the importance of the territorial aspect, which cannot be separated from the social and institutional one. Based on considerations regarding European countries and avoiding the idealisation of the concepts of neighbourhood and mixité, this chapter will reflect on the need to propose policies to revitalise these areas (urban regeneration programmes), thereby enhancing their specific characteristics in the urban context, also in terms of intercultural dialogue: they are, in fact, one of the main testing grounds of the European social model.
Drawing on the experiences examined, revitalising the peripheries means combining place-based policies with traditional social policies (housing, training, work and security)
Analysis of extra virgin olive oils volatile compounds by means of HS-SPME/GC-MS/GC-O and an electronic nose methods.
No full textItalian wine sustainability: new trends in consumer behaviors for the millennial generation
No full textPurpose – The role of sustainability is predominant in many aspects of consumer purchasing decisions.
Millennials and young people are, in this field, potential players who buy and consume wine with ecosustainable decisions but, in the literature, these aspects are analyzed with nonuniform findings. This paper aims to investigate the wine consumption among young people belonging to the millennial generation, Y generation and Z generation considering also the gender.
Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a questionnaire with 2000 respondents. The data are analyzed to understand consumption decisions in the wine sector. This information is analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics (hypothesis test and multiple regression).
Findings – The results of the paper show a clear propensity to be sustainable of the young generation compared with the elderly, highlighting the role of Millennials. Moreover, considering gender, there is a greater sustainable wine tendency (considering both the environmental and the economic/decisional component) in female compared with male.
Research limitations/implications – This work reflects the Italian reality of the pre-COVID-19 period. Obviously, the pandemic situation and the geographic scenario analyzed could change the results of a second wave of the survey.
Social implications – This study contributes to improve the knowledge concerning the wine consumption habits of Italian young generations.
Originality/value – The paper manages to underline the different aspects of sustainability in the wine purchasing decisions by young consumers by focusing on the considered generations
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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