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Santuarios urbanos y el derecho al tránsito: migrantes en tránsito por Milán Urban sanctuaries and the right to the transit: migrants in transit through Milan
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the policy implemented by the city of Milan to deal with the migrants crossing the city en route to central Europe from 2013, mainly from Syria and the Horn of Africa. To understand the city’s response to this wave of migration, a qualitative case study was conducted that included interviews with volunteers, public employees, legal advisers and refugees. Milan’s initiative is discussed in the context of the expansion of sanctuary city policies in Europe during the period of the “migration crisis”. In particular, we will see that the sistema profughi was from 2013 to 2017 an alternative to national and international policies on transit migration in terms of law, narrative and implementation, in supporting the right to the transit and challenging European and Italian policies on the matter.Este artículo se centra en la política que implementó la ciudad de Milán para lidiar con el aluvión de migrantes que cruzaron la ciudad de camino hacia Europa Central a partir de 2013, procedentes principalmente de Siria y el Cuerno de África. Para entender la respuesta de la ciudad a esta oleada migratoria, se llevó a cabo un estudio de caso cualitativo con entrevistas a voluntarios, empleados públicos, asesores jurídicos y refugiados. Como resultado, se discute la actuación de Milán en el marco de la expansión de las políticas de las ciudades santuario en Europa durante el período de la «crisis migratoria». En concreto, veremos que esta actuación –el sistema profughi (2013-2017)– constituyó una alternativa a las políticas nacionales e internacionales sobre migración en tránsito, en términos de derecho, relato e implementación, al apoyar el derecho al tránsito y cuestionar las políticas europeas e italianas sobre la materia
Teaching Italian and Reconfiguring Citizenship: The Case of Language Volunteers in Migrant Education
Get PDFPro-migrant volunteering is often denounced as apolitical and patronising. Voluntary initiatives for immigrants' language education, then, have been accused of facilitating the neoliberal governmentality of migration, by fashioning migrants into precarious workers. Based on 20 in-depth interviews with volunteer language teachers in Lombardy, Italy, this article complicates such understandings, by shedding light on the tensions and ambiguities characterising volunteers' activities vis-à-vis the institutional governance of migration. Indeed, whereas such initiatives take on integration tasks for the benefit of the State, and thus can be accused of allying with the State in the governmentality of migration, against a background of growing nationalism, volunteering appears to develop people's empathy and solidarity beyond national belonging, questioning the division between citizens and non-citizens. In particular, it shows that volunteering in language education has the potential to transgress consolidated lines of inclusion and exclusion, turn volunteers from 'active citizens' into 'activist citizens', and offer resources of substantive citizenship to students. Ultimately, these 'humanitarian' actions by citizens belonging to the dominant society may represent acts of citizenship complementary to the initiatives of 'denizens'.<br /
Domestic Care Work: Problems and Requests Emerging from the ‘Triangle of Care’
Get PDFIn Italy, like in many post-industrial societies, eldercare has gone through a profound transformation. Today, the elderly are increasingly assisted in their homes by external workers, who often hail from abroad. Many scholars tend to see this eldercare arrangement, also named ‘migrant-in-the-family model’, as intrinsically inegalitarian. Within this context, we look at three intertwining questions: the disposition toward alternative forms of eldercare; the main issues emerging within the ‘migrant-in-the-family’ model; and the possibility of revising the eldercare model. To address these questions, we built on an archive of in-depth interviews within the so-called ‘triangle of care’ – care managers, the elderly care recipients, and migrant domestic eldercare workers. Our findings reveal that the elderly home care, via the ‘migrant-in-the-family’ model, still remains the preferred approach to providing long-term care in Italy. Though bedevilled with problems, domestic eldercare represents a strategic choice for Italian families as well as migrant workers. Based on the findings emerging from the study, we proffer four practical policy recommendations to improve the model in the future: better and easier financial assistance; increasing the role of the welfare state; introducing holistic help-desks; and reviewing policies on qualification and its valorization
Citizenship beyond the normative script: young immigrants’ volunteering as a practice of ‘citizenship from below’
No full textImmigrant volunteering is usually absent from the debate on the
reconfiguration of citizenship ‘from below’. Indeed, it has been
generally considered a conservative force, if anything, an instrument
of fuller integration. Building on 25 interviews with young
migrant volunteers, this paper aims to fill this gap. It shows that,
even if immigrant volunteering may reinforce some conventional
categorizations, it achieves the primary result of showing that
people with an immigrant background deserve to be fully recognized
as citizens. Moreover, voluntary work appears to shape how
young immigrants perceive both their belonging and citizenship in
a way that defies restrictive politics of belonging and traditional
conceptions of citizenship
Immigrant Solidarity Amid the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Forms of Help, Intergroup Solidarity, and Recognition
Get PDFItaly was the first Western country to be severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Within it, immigrants have played an important role as essential workers and throughout solidarity initiatives. The present article is based on 64 in-depth interviews with immigrants who engaged in solidarity actions directed toward the immigrant population and the host society during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analytically, it emerged that through solidaristic initiatives, immigrants articulated what we called ‘claims of recognition.’ Recognition here is considered in both its individual form, as interpersonal acceptance and esteem for single immigrants, and its collective form, as the social regard of immigrant groups as constituents of Italian society. Despite being perhaps 'elementary,' these claims aim to fight forms of both non-recognition and mis-recognition that are pervasive in Italy and aim to transform the symbolic 'fabric' of this country
Ragioni e percorsi dell'impegno sociale
No full textLa ricerca ha portato alla realizzazione di un centinaio d’interviste in profondità che sono poi state analizzate. Si tratta di un’analisi qualitativa dei percorsi biografici, delle motivazioni, dei punti positivi e dei problemi emersi nelle attività effettivamente svolte da parte di chi opera sul campo. Gli intervistati, infatti, sono tutti volontari di origine straniera impegnati in diverso modo nel volontariato. Essi operano come volontari con diversi ruoli e carichi di lavoro, e alcuni rivestono anche ruoli di responsabilità.
Con lo scopo di indagare proprio le dinamiche che favoriscono l’impegno volontario, e dunque la partecipazione nella società, l’indagine si è concentrata su alcuni aspetti. In particolare, la ricerca si è confrontata con le dimensioni motivazionali e con l’individuazione di tipologie dei volontari di origine straniera
Trapped in administrative limbo. The Italian 2020 regularisation programme four years later.
No full textIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Italian government launched its first
regularisation program in eight years in 2020. Four years later, many applications
are still waiting for a decision, particularly in large urban centres. This study exam-
ines the experience of ‘being on hold’ among migrants in Milan through in-depth
interviews and participant observation, highlighting how delays in regularisation
intensify migrants’ vulnerability and exposure to exploitation. By adopting a tempo-
ral perspective on migration-related control, we analyse how prolonged application
processing creates a persistent state of «administrative limbo», while also giving
rise to specific counterstrategies migrants develop to navigate the challenges of ex-
tended waiting
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
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