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FAMILY AND MIGRATION: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS ON TURKISH FAMILIES IN ITALY
No full textLo scopo di questa ricerca è quello di analizzare l'impatto della migrazione sulle relazioni familiari degli immigrati turchi in Italia e il modo in cui i legami con il paese d’origine possono influenzare le loro esperienze migratorie e i loro piani futuri. Questi aspetti sono stati analizzati in uno studio qualitativo ed esplorativo, attraverso 38 interviste a migranti turchi attualmente residenti nel Nord Italia e identificati con la tecnica del campionamento snowball.
L'intervista semi-strutturata è stato il principale strumento di ricerca e, di conseguenza, ha rappresentato la principale fonte di dati primari di questa ricerca. Le relazioni familiari e le esperienze migratorie hanno costituito il focus delle interviste; le domande sono state delineate intorno ad alcuni argomenti ritenuti cruciali come la storia della famiglia, la loro scelta migratoria, il confronto tra "qui" e "là", l'esperienza migratoria e i cambiamenti che questa produce a livello di relazioni familiari, le difficoltà e le reti di comunità. Analizzando una comunità poca studiata in Italia come quella turca, in una prospettiva di relazioni familiari, questa ricerca vuole fornire un contributo originale sia allo studio della migrazione turca sia agli studi familiari in generale.This research seeks to analyse the impact of migration on family relations of Turkish immigrants in Italy, and the way ties with the country of origin can affect their migration experiences and future plans. These aspects have been analysed in a qualitative study, exploratory in nature, through 38 interviews with Turkish migrants identified by snowballing who are currently residing in Northern Italy.
The semi–structured interview is the main research instrument and consequently, it provides the main sources of primary data for this research. The main focus of the interviews was on family relations and the migration experiences; interview questions were outlined around a few major topics such as the history of the family, their migration choice, the comparison between ‘here’ and ‘there’, the migration experience, the changes that it produces at the level of family relations, the difficulties and community networks. By considering such an understudied community in Italy as the Turkish –within a perspective of family relations– this research seeks to provide an original contribution both to the study of the Turkish migration and to family studies in general
Reimagining the homeland: diasporic belonging among Turkish and Kurdish second generations in Italy
Full text linkThis paper analyzes the experiences of children of immigrants coming to Italy from Turkey. It does so by using in-depth interviews and looking at how they conceptualize their sense of belonging to their home country and the transnational ties that they maintain in relation to their parents' experience. The participants in this research grew up in families whose intention was not to remain in Italy but to continue their journey to Germany. Like their parents, the second-generation members also want to build their lives in Germany, however, the meaning attributed to this place is very different. For these young people, Germany and its diasporas offer a source of identity. Put otherwise, in addition to what Germany can offer in terms of services and economic opportunities, they are also attracted to what diasporas can offer: being Turks and Kurds in Germany. By allowing them to reconnect with the cultural memories of their homeland and enjoy the opportunities and rights offered by a developed country, Germany becomes a diasporic homeland in which to plan a future, a place where, to quote one of them, "one feels at home in the heart of Europe". The idea of a homeland, then, is not only transformed - it is duplicated
Continugee - Ensuring Continuity in Education for Refugee Children. Intellectual Output 2 - Refugee Education Needs Analysis and Assessment
No full textThis paper aims to analyse and assess the following needs:
(a) The need for successful participation of refugee children and adolescents in education, both in terms of inclusion (i.e., limiting exclusion or drop-out rates and supporting access to edu-cational programmes and institutions) and of learning and achievement (i.e., acquisition of knowledge and skills in host-country language, certified completion of education cycles,
(b) The need for specialised programmes, learning contents and instructional methods for pro-moting European values and for integrating refugee children and families to European / host societies,
(c) The need for training and development of refugee children’s educators, in view of the above-mentioned needs of students and schools,
(d) The need for institutional and educational arrangements to ensure continuity in education and training of refugee children and adolescent
FAMILY AND MIGRATION: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS ON TURKISH FAMILIES IN ITALY
No full textLo scopo di questa ricerca è quello di analizzare l'impatto della migrazione sulle relazioni familiari degli immigrati turchi in Italia e il modo in cui i legami con il paese d’origine possono influenzare le loro esperienze migratorie e i loro piani futuri. Questi aspetti sono stati analizzati in uno studio qualitativo ed esplorativo, attraverso 38 interviste a migranti turchi attualmente residenti nel Nord Italia e identificati con la tecnica del campionamento snowball.
L'intervista semi-strutturata è stato il principale strumento di ricerca e, di conseguenza, ha rappresentato la principale fonte di dati primari di questa ricerca. Le relazioni familiari e le esperienze migratorie hanno costituito il focus delle interviste; le domande sono state delineate intorno ad alcuni argomenti ritenuti cruciali come la storia della famiglia, la loro scelta migratoria, il confronto tra "qui" e "là", l'esperienza migratoria e i cambiamenti che questa produce a livello di relazioni familiari, le difficoltà e le reti di comunità. Analizzando una comunità poca studiata in Italia come quella turca, in una prospettiva di relazioni familiari, questa ricerca vuole fornire un contributo originale sia allo studio della migrazione turca sia agli studi familiari in generale.This research seeks to analyse the impact of migration on family relations of Turkish immigrants in Italy, and the way ties with the country of origin can affect their migration experiences and future plans. These aspects have been analysed in a qualitative study, exploratory in nature, through 38 interviews with Turkish migrants identified by snowballing who are currently residing in Northern Italy.
The semi–structured interview is the main research instrument and consequently, it provides the main sources of primary data for this research. The main focus of the interviews was on family relations and the migration experiences; interview questions were outlined around a few major topics such as the history of the family, their migration choice, the comparison between ‘here’ and ‘there’, the migration experience, the changes that it produces at the level of family relations, the difficulties and community networks. By considering such an understudied community in Italy as the Turkish –within a perspective of family relations– this research seeks to provide an original contribution both to the study of the Turkish migration and to family studies in general
Homes Becoming Religious Transnational Spaces: The Impact of COVID-19 Immobility on the Religious Activities of Migrant Muslim Women
Full text linkSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 emergency, the marked division between the home and public space has been increasingly emphasized, and the concept of ‘home’has become more and more connoted with the values of security and control. The question that arises is this: how did the ‘stay-at-home’period affect (and continues to affect) the home-based life of migrant Muslim women and their collective religious practices? Drawing upon the narratives of Turkish Muslim women living in Northern Italy, the researchreported in this paper focused on their frequency of religious participation both during the pre-pandemic period and during the ‘stay-at-home’one by identifying how they adapted to online meetings, courses, or collective prayers. If collective religious activity in mosques for these women, in addition to spiritual support, was a remarkable opportunity for them to interface with public space, allowing them to retreat from the everyday family commitments of their home, virtual participation in religious events organized by both the country of origin and the diasporas created a highly transnational dimension for them in that same home. Considering Italy’s peripheral diasporic position, particularly in terms of religious organizations, in the Turkish diaspora in Europe, this expanded, albeit virtual, participation of migrant women is significant because it seems to give them the opportunity to reinvent themeanings of place and the migratory experience, about both their peers in Turkey and to those living in the diasporas, and to develop awareness about identity issues
Uno sguardo sul Terzo settore marchigiano, anno 2023. Volontariato e organizzazioni: caratteristiche, attività e inclusività
No full textMigrants’ Participation and Migration Governance Amidst Hostility in Small Localities: An Italian Case Study
Full text linkIn this paper we examine how Small and Medium-sized Towns (SMTs) address migrants’ participation amidst hostility. To do so, we focus on a small town in central Italy. We scrutinise two dimensions of participation – visibility and agency in policy-making – and connect them to specific forms of hostility towards migrants that can arise in small communities. We also consider how changes in the social fabric and political discourse can overcome and subvert such hostilities. By exploring the case vertically (involving institutions) and horizontally (involving civil society actors), we analyse local migrants’ participation in light of political transitions and changes in the local government’s attitude. We focus in particular on how and whether migrants are granted space in the planning and implementation of integration and participation policies across different periods in a small town in central Italy. This case highlights substantial policy transitions that shape migrants' involvement in local life and set boundaries on their engagement. The paper, which is based on qualitative research conducted within the EU-funded project “PISTE - Participation in Small and Medium-sized Towns: Experiences, Exchanges, Experiments”, relies on policy analysis and 17 semi-structured interviews with policy-makers and civil society actors. The results show that political discourse on migration affects perceptions and practices of hostility in regard to migrants and the forms of visibility assumed by migrants’ participation in SMTs. When participation is politically hindered, everyday practices of visibility (such as being visible in public spaces) assume political significance. The presence of ‘bridging figures’ is crucial for facilitating the transition from an adverse to a more inclusive political environment, enhancing participation by specific migrant groups. However, reliance on such bridging figures and personal relationships can be a double-edged sword. It can promote participation, but it may confine it to individual interactions rather than foster broader migrant engagement
Entering the School as a Refugee Minor: A Comparative Analysis of School Admission in Italy and Sweden
No full textAssessment of existing knowledge is essential to address new arrivals to appropriate grades. Modalities and policies adopted in assessing pupils’ prior educational levels also help the authors analyze how education-related migration policies are conceptualized and implemented in institutional settings. Through the “most-different” logic of comparison, in this chapter, the authors investigate refugee education policies of Italy and Sweden, focusing on the first phase of schooling: skill and knowledge assessment and placement to classes. The analysis relies on an in-depth policy text analysis. As expected, these two countries present remarkable differences in newcomers’ skill assessment and school admission policies. While Sweden adopts a centralized assessment test on students’ previous schooling, aiming to address new arrivals into mainstream classes as fast as possible through mother tongue assistance, in the absence of a national framework, school admission is highly fragmented and regionalized in Italy. Despite these differences at the macro-policy level, in both contexts, school leadership and the agency of involved actors have substantial importance in the first phase of refugee pupils’ school placement
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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