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Vivere ai margini. Una indagine sugli insediamenti rom e sinti in Lombardia, a cura di M. Ambrosini e A. Tosi, Osservatorio Regionale per l’integrazione e la multietnicità
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Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe : Actors, Dynamics and Governance
No full textFocusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems. In doing so, it answers vital policy questions regarding the continued existence of irregular migration, pathways to legality, and relations between unauthorized migrants and receiving societies. The author argues that while the economic crisis and migrant flows coming from the South and East of the Mediterranean Sea have called this regime into question, it is the needs of labour markets in Southern Europe and compliance with European Union rules that has had a more dominant effect. The particular manner in which labour markets, political actors, social institutions, and migrants’ networks intersect are shown to be distinctive features of the migration regime in this region. Describing bordering and debordering practices, from the island of Lampedusa to local communities in distant regions, this book brings fresh insights to urgent areas of debate within the field. It analyses why many irregular immigrants are socially accepted, such as women who perform domestic and care activities, whereas others are rejected and marginalized, as is often the case for asylum seekers, despite having permission to reside. Drawing together twenty years of research and addressing the current crisis, it will appeal to policy-makers, students and scholars of migration
Costruire cittadinanza : solidarietà organizzata e lotta alla povertà : undici esperienze europee
No full textNon passa lo straniero? Le politiche migratorie tra sovranità nazionale e diritti umani
No full textLe politiche migratorie sono salite di rango nell’agenda delle forze politiche, dei governi e dei parlamenti. Le politiche degli ingressi, l’immigrazione irregolare, l’accoglienza dei rifugiati, l’accesso alla cittadinanza, la riaffermazione dell’identità nazionale, sono ovunque temi controversi.
Nello stesso tempo però gli immigrati acquistano ogni giorno legittimazione, voce e diritti, mediante diverse forme di cittadinanza dal basso. La chiusura non è univoca: le politiche migratorie sono piuttosto un campo di battaglia, in cui alle tendenze ostili agli immigrati si oppongono attori e pratiche sociali che promuovono l’inclusione
Europe: no migrant's land?
Full text linkThis Report, edited by Maurizio Ambrosini, offers a complete and encompassing analysis of the current state of play of migration flows across the Mediterranean and policy responses by EU countries.
Attention is specifically devoted to ongoing debates about the management of mixed migration, the peculiar profile and needs of asylum seekers, migrants’ labour market access, and integration policies in Europe.
Introduction, Paolo Magri
1. Current Patterns of Migration Flows. The Challenge of Migration
and Asylum in Europe, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
2. Governing Irregular Migration: Transnational Networks
and National Borders, Anna Triandafyllidou
3. Needed, but not Welcomed: Immigrants in the European Labour Markets, Emilio Reyneri
4. After Multiculturalism: Neo–Assimilationist Policies in Europe?, Christian Joppke
5. Inclusion, Exclusion, and Citizenship: European Practices, T. Faist, K. Schmidt, C. Ulbricht
Conclusions, Maurizio Ambrosin
The role of immigrants in the Italian labour market
No full textIn little more than a decade, Italy has become a country characterized by immigration from abroad. This pattern is far removed from what central-northern European countries experienced during the 1950s and the 1960s. Immigration has not been explicitly demanded by employers, nor has it been ruled by agreements with the immigrants' countries of origin, nor perceived as necessary for the economic system. For all these reasons, immigration has been chaotic and managed in an emergency and approximate way, even though it is deemed useful and is requested by the "informal" as well as the "official" economy. Following presentations of statistic on trends in the phenomenon, three issues are analysed: - how immigrants are integrated into a labour market that has not called them and into circumstances characterized by the absence of public policies to help them in thier job search. - whether it is possible to separate regular immigration involved in the "official" market from irregular immigration in the hidden economy, considering advantages of the first and harmful effects of the second for the Italian socio-economic system. - whether it is appropriate to address complementarity between immigrant labour and the national labour force in a country with 2,500,000 unemployed workers and heavy territorial unbalances
Humanitarian Help and Refugees: De-Bordering Solidarity as a Contentious Issue
Full text linkThis article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors,
stemming from civil society, in treatment of the issue of refugees’ reception.
It suggests the concept of “de-bordering solidarity,” to express the political
meaning of such mobilizations. With this term, it refers to various forms of
support provided by activists and volunteers, through which these actors
contest policies of asylum and borders in practice, even when they do not
advance overt political claims. Furthermore, the article factors four types
of actors involved in the reception of asylum seekers, namely NGOs, other
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), social movements and common
citizens
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