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Studying Migration from Different Perspectives and with Different Techniques
No full textMigration can be considered a human strategy to improve life and can be defined as a natural behavior of human beings that has developed over time. The issue of migration is a particularly salient theme in this historical period and presents a new challenge for researchers in Europe and worldwide, particularly those researchers attempting to understand the patterns and processes of migration. Researchers of various disciplines have responded to the challenges related to migration using a variety of methodological tools to examine the phenomenon. In this chapter, the author presents qualitative techniques used in the social sciences and discusses their strengths and weaknesses when they are employed to study immigrant populations. Given the complexity of the migration phenomenon, the challenges that researchers must address include collaboration between disciplines and methodologies and the integration of methods. A multimethod, multilevel and multidisciplinary approach is used in an attempt to understand this multifaceted issue
Parental Ethnotheories and Family Routines: A Comparison between Italian and Ecuadorian Mothers in Italian Context
No full textThis chapter presents research that compares Italian and Ecuadorian mothers’ parental ethnotheories with specific attention to family routines, care practices and children’s education. The participants were 30 mothers of children aged 4–8 years (15 Italian and 15 Ecuadorian) living in Italy. The participants responded to a semi-structured interview. With regard to daily routines, the results show many similarities in both groups. Parental style was one of the areas in which immigrant mothers perceived a substantial difference from Italians. With respect to relationships with their children, Italian participants focused on the relationships’ affective aspects and their expressive and emotional connotations. Ecuadorian mothers also underlined the ethical dimension of responsibility. There were both similarities and differences in the parental ethnotheories of the two groups and in their organization of daily routines and parental roles. A general similarity of perceptions between the two groups emerged in comparison with the previous generation
The phenomenon of migration of unaccompanied minors from Central America to the United States States
No full textPsychosocial Adjustment of Immigrant Adolescents in Italy: Acculturation, Discriminiation and Intergroup Friendship
No full textAdolescents at Risk: Comparing Italian and Immigrant Youth
No full textThis chapter analyzes the well-being of an at-risk adolescent population that has been poorly studied in the literature. Adolescents at psychosocial risk are on a developmental path characterized by crucial, moderating or precursor factors of distress and maladjustment.
This article presents results of a multi-methods study conducted to identify whether migratory status represented an additional critical factor along the developmental path of adolescents toward adaptation or maladjustment. Quantitative survey methods provided a background of descriptive information concerning adolescents at psychosocial risk adjustment, coping strategies, social support and ethnic identity, while qualitative methods offered richer, deeper understanding of these issues in relation to migration experience.
The study sample comprised 60 adolescents (M = 18.02 years; 45% Italians and 55% immigrant; 58.3% males and 41.7% females) at psychosocial risk. Each adolescent completed a questionnaire that analized their ability to adapt, their level of maladjustment, their coping strategies and their perceived level of social support.
10 young immigrants participated to in-depth interviews in order to thoroughly describe the meaning and complexity of this phenomenon in the interviewees’ own words
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Ex vivo photoactivated chromophore for keratitis-corneal crosslinking on inverted graft: new approach to manage interface infectious keratitis after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty
Full text linkA 44-year-old man affected by keratoconus underwent deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK). Two weeks postoperatively, slitlamp examination showed grayish-white lesions in the donor-host interface. Corneal scraping and donor broth culture tested negative for both bacteria and fungi. In vivo confocal microscopy showed elongated particles resembling Candida pseudofilaments. Despite antimicrobial therapy, the clinical picture worsened, and surgical approach was chosen: the graft was peeled off and inverted (epithelium facing down), and ex vivo photoactivated chromophore for infectious keratitis-corneal crosslinking (PACK-CXL) was performed; the recipient bed was washed with antibiotics/antifungals and the graft resutured. Microbiological and histological evaluations of biopsy specimen tested positive for Candida albicans. Postoperative slitlamp examination revealed a progressive recovery of graft transparency with disappearance of the infiltrates. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of ex vivo PACK-CXL on inverted DALK graft for the treatment of interface infectious keratitis. This technique allowed the resolution of the infection while sparing the use of new donor tissue
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