326,344 research outputs found
Migranti e non migranti : accogliere, ospitare e convivere
No full textQuesto saggio, attraverso le annotazioni sulle reti sociali stratificate lungo il tempo e i decenni di immigrazione straniera in Italia (Colucci 2018) e osservando tentativi di convivenza e modelli alternativi di ospitalità, ha avuto come obiettivo di illuminare alcuni interstizi (Riccio e Tarabusi 2018) potenzialmente fruttuosi per chi opera nell’accoglienza e inclusione dei migranti
Migration and Development. Reflections on an Ambivalent Relationship
No full textNowadays the Migration and Development relation is becoming a kind of “mantra” (Faist 2008) a real “discourse of development” (Grillo, Stirrat 1997) connected, as it is, with other discourses stressing community, civil society, self reliance, and, sometimes problematically, profitable investment. However, from the perspective of African hometown associations, especially those developed in France, such a connection displays a longer story. Already at the beginning of the 80’s Malian and Senegalese organisations embarked on micro-development projects aimed at their country of origin in sub-Saharan Africa (Daum 1998). Codevelopment projects, it was argued, should be ‘decentralised’, their primary movers, and the locus of their activities, are not states, but localities: local states and places, the people who inhabit them, and the institutions of civil society (NGOs, associations etc) they have created. Codevelopment circles also stress the importance of dialogue with migrants and their organisations. Their legitimate interests in the development process, it is argued, should be recognised and they should be encouraged to become ‘development actors’, dissolving the developer/developed distinction (Lavigne-Delville, 1991: 196; Quiminal 1991). What distinguishes codeveloppement from the transnational activities of migrant hometown associations is the involvement of a variety of local institutions and actors ‘here’ (regional and municipal authorities, NGOs, and associations, based locally in Europe but representing particular villages or clusters of villages where migrants originate, with funding from the state, or the EU), and counterparts (local authorities, NGOs, village associations etc) ‘there’, in the South. These activities may represent an original strategy signalling a refusal to break with countries of origin while seeking integration. However, Do these reflect the real demands of migrants or the logic of European planners, politicians, and social practitioners involved in the implementation of migration policies? This is an aspect that applied as much as academic research should always explore, moved from a healthy skepticism (Grillo, Riccio 2004). However, although one should be cautious towards a celebratory as much as pessimistic views towards co-development, a methodological opportunity needs to be recognized: by involving so many social actors, this field of research represents a laboratory for the study of such a complex and ambivalent social process, as is transnational migration. Ideally the student of migration should be working simultaneously on three fronts: with the institutions of the receiving society, among migrants themselves, and in the sending society (Grillo 1985). Therefore, it is important to combine a transnational approach with the need to bridge a divide in the studies of migration, which have tended to consider either the characteristics of an immigrant community or the characteristics of the society incorporating it. With this aim, the study of migrants’ translocal codevelopment projects represents a methodological solution to study social change (De Sardan 1995) by focussing on the interaction between the institutions of the receiving contexts, migrants’ transnational practices and the economic and socio-cultural transformations of the sending context (Riccio 2007)
Migration and Development. Reflections on an Ambivalent Relationship
No full textNowadays the Migration and Development relation is becoming a kind of “mantra” (Faist 2008) a real “discourse of development” (Grillo, Stirrat 1997) connected, as it is, with other discourses stressing community, civil society, self reliance, and, sometimes problematically, profitable investment. However, from the perspective of African hometown associations, especially those developed in France, such a connection displays a longer story. Already at the beginning of the 80’s Malian and Senegalese organisations embarked on micro-development projects aimed at their country of origin in sub-Saharan Africa (Daum 1998). Codevelopment projects, it was argued, should be ‘decentralised’, their primary movers, and the locus of their activities, are not states, but localities: local states and places, the people who inhabit them, and the institutions of civil society (NGOs, associations etc) they have created. Codevelopment circles also stress the importance of dialogue with migrants and their organisations. Their legitimate interests in the development process, it is argued, should be recognised and they should be encouraged to become ‘development actors’, dissolving the developer/developed distinction (Lavigne-Delville, 1991: 196; Quiminal 1991). What distinguishes codeveloppement from the transnational activities of migrant hometown associations is the involvement of a variety of local institutions and actors ‘here’ (regional and municipal authorities, NGOs, and associations, based locally in Europe but representing particular villages or clusters of villages where migrants originate, with funding from the state, or the EU), and counterparts (local authorities, NGOs, village associations etc) ‘there’, in the South. These activities may represent an original strategy signalling a refusal to break with countries of origin while seeking integration. However, Do these reflect the real demands of migrants or the logic of European planners, politicians, and social practitioners involved in the implementation of migration policies? This is an aspect that applied as much as academic research should always explore, moved from a healthy skepticism (Grillo, Riccio 2004). However, although one should be cautious towards a celebratory as much as pessimistic views towards co-development, a methodological opportunity needs to be recognized: by involving so many social actors, this field of research represents a laboratory for the study of such a complex and ambivalent social process, as is transnational migration. Ideally the student of migration should be working simultaneously on three fronts: with the institutions of the receiving society, among migrants themselves, and in the sending society (Grillo 1985). Therefore, it is important to combine a transnational approach with the need to bridge a divide in the studies of migration, which have tended to consider either the characteristics of an immigrant community or the characteristics of the society incorporating it. With this aim, the study of migrants’ translocal codevelopment projects represents a methodological solution to study social change (De Sardan 1995) by focussing on the interaction between the institutions of the receiving contexts, migrants’ transnational practices and the economic and socio-cultural transformations of the sending context (Riccio 2007)
Second generation associations and the Italian social construction of Otherness
No full textItaly is now home to second generation children of the first wave of migrants into Italy. These immigrant youth are organizing themselves politically, socio-culturally and religiously through the creation of associations. The reflections presented in this paper result from a study on these associations in the city of Bologna undertaken together with a post doctoral student (Riccio & Russo, 2009). Members of the second generation are often depicted as ‘different’ by the majority society, a phenomenon typical of contemporary cultural racism which draws absolute boundaries to legitimise the incommensurability of cultures and the normalisation of social exclusion and discrimination. Nevertheless many second generation associations try to avoid culturalism and embrace contemporary diversity by going beyond ethnic and national boundaries and by challenging common sense representations. These associations are characterised by cosmopolitan ambitions, familiarity with new media, public assertiveness, transnational connections and good linguistic skills which facilitate communication with Italian institutions. The primary objectives of second generation associations are to fight discrimination and to facilitate equal opportunities for social mobility for youth of immigrant background. Yet, these youth associations encounter various difficulties such as frustration in their inability to ensure active participation, avoiding dependency and elitism
Convivere
No full textLa ricerca ha permesso di indagare il senso della convivenza e della solidarietà studiando se proprio intorno alle donne madri di bambini nati in migrazione, considerate vulnerabili anche dal punto di vista giuridico, si potessero delineare circuiti di saperi e relazioni che favorissero, nelle strutture di accoglienza, la convivialità e i processi di inclusione sociale. Le convivenze di persone e nuclei nelle strutture di accoglienza diffusa sono regolate da pratiche di governo e norme giuridiche di accesso in cui lo stato dispone chi può abitarlo e per quanto tempo
Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989). Letteratura, critica, militanza civile
No full textIl presente volume raccoglie i contributi offerti dagli studiosi a Palermo nel corso del Convegno "Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989). Letteratura, critica, militanza civile", tenutosi il 18 e 19 novembre 2019 presso l’Università degli Studi e realizzato dal Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche in collaborazione con il Centro di Studi filologici e linguistici siciliani. L’analisi che emerge nella raccolta di saggi che qui si introducono non si attesta come nostalgica celebrazione di un capitolo chiuso, bensì come stimolo all’inaugurazione di una fase di definitiva messa a fuoco dell’opera e del pensiero di un autore la cui dimensione sconfina dall’ambito prettamente scientifico. i contributi sono stati collocati all’interno di cinque macro aree tematiche: Pensiero e metodo, Opere, Confronti, Lingua, Tradizione. La voluta partizione transdisciplinare, che è pure struttura metodologica della proposta di analisi offerta con questo volume, cerca di rispondere al tentativo delle curatrici di restituire il sentire sciasciano in tema di superamento delle soglie di conoscenza del reale: l’opera dello scrittore è incontestata testimonianza di un desiderio di rendere comunicabili dimensioni spazio-temporali distanti eppure accomunate sempre da uno stesso soggetto, cioè l’uomo, che delle storture del reale e dei giochi del potere, ai danni di se stesso, si fa protagonista.This volume collects the contributions offered in Palermo during the conference "Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989). Literature, criticism, civil militancy", held on 18 and 19 November 2019 at the University of Studies and carried out by the Department of Humanities in collaboration with the Sicilian Center for Philological and Linguistic Studies. The analysis that emerges in the collection of essays introduced here is not attested as a nostalgic celebration of a closed chapter, but as a stimulus to the inauguration of a phase of definitive focus on the work and thought of an author whose dimension it goes beyond the purely scientific sphere. the contributions were placed within five macro thematic areas: Thought and method, Works, Comparisons, Language, Tradition. The desired transdisciplinary partition, which is also the methodological structure of the proposed analysis offered with this volume, tries to respond to the attempt of the curators to return the Sciascian feeling in terms of overcoming the thresholds of knowledge of reality: the writer's work is undisputed evidence of a desire to make distant space-time dimensions communicable yet always united by the same subject, that is man, who becomes the protagonist of the distortions of reality and the games of power, against himself
NMR and computational data of two novel antimicrobial peptides
No full textAbstractHere we report details on the design and conformational analysis of two novel peptides showing antimicrobial properties, as reported in the research article, “New antimicrobial peptides against foodborne pathogens: from in silico design to experimental evidence” G. Palmieri, M. Balestrieri, Y.T.R. Proroga, L. Falcigno, A. Facchiano, A. Riccio, F. Capuano, R. Marrone, G. Campanile, A. Anastasio (2016) [1]. NMR data, such as chemical shifts in two different solvents as well as aCH protons deviations from random coil values and NOE patterns, are shown together with the statistics of structural calculations. Strategy and particulars of molecular design are presented
Conversazione con Umberto Pellecchia
No full textIl testo discute in modo corale tra gli autori e l'interlocutore dell'ìintervista alcune questioni cruciali sul tema della ricerca nella cooperazione internazionale, nelle migrazioni e nell'intervento sul campo della salute. Attraverso l'analisi di un percorso professionale specifico si allarga lo sguardo a questioni metodologiche e inerenti la didattica della disciplina antropologica
Conversazione con Sara Ongaro. Antropologia, imprese ed economie locali.
No full textL'articolo riflette sul farsi pubblico dell'antropologia in relazione alle imprese e alle economie locali.
Le riflessioni sul ruolo e la pratica della disciplina sono analizzate attraverso la prospettiva biografica
Spazi di convivialità? Convivere e co-abitare con migranti in Italia. Introduzione
No full textL'articolo introduce una sezione monografica sui legami e le forme di convivenza tra migranti e non migranti nello spazio urbano connettendo le riflessioni sulla convivenza al dibattito internazionale sulla convivialità
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