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South-Eastern Europe and the European Migration System. East-West Mobility in Flux
No full textPurpose of this special issue on migration of the Romanian Journal of European Studies (RJES) is to look at the ongoing transformations of the European migration system in relation to the European integration processes involving South-Eastern Europe
The European Migration System and the Development of the EU External Migration Policy: A Critical Review
No full textThis article aims at sketching the evolution of the European migration system and the development of the external dimension of the European migration policy in light of the European Union (EU) enlargement processes. It does so by means of policy analysis as well as the direct experience of the author in exploring the European migration scenario and its transformations over the last ten years. Both the internal and external components of the EU migration policymaking are briefly assessed in light of the multimodal character of migration flows, which the Eastward enlargement contributed to spark significantly in recent times. Asymmetries in policy convergence and the lack of a coherent migration policy towards the EU neighbourhood are also explained in view of the lack of a thorough discussion on the European borders as well as the overarching difficulty in shaping a common European sense of belonging. Lastly, a right‐based approach aimed at a fair and comprehensive migration policy will be advocated
Editorial
No full textHaving witnessed two Eastern enlargements in a short span of time, it is somehow intriguing to look at the evolution of the European migration space in South-Eastern Europe (SEE). Therefore a deep intellectual curiosity was once more the rationale behind the idea, in autumn 2009, to issue a call for papers for this Special issue on migration and mobility of the Romanian Journal of European Studies (RJES) titled “South-Eastern Europe and the European Migration System: East-West Mobility in Flux”.
The intricacy of the migration phenomena affecting the SEE region and its close and historical relations with the European Union and Russia represented other inspiring motives for this scientific journey. A number of theoretical questions came to the surface all the same in relation to the historical links between bordering regions, past and present ethnic conflicts, large diasporas of SEE citizens in western European countries, different migration typologies and last but not least the promises of future EU accession.
How to relate these social and political phenomena into a constructive approach for the readership? The selected research questions included in the call for papers were bounded by comparative motives and characterised by the same dynamic understanding of the evolving European migration system. Either if we talk about a single European migration system or several European migration systems, South Eastern Europe cannot be thought in isolation but as part of that enlarging borders and ongoing free movement of persons that globalisation, the EU visa liberalisation process and the ease of transport and communication are facilitating and hopefully making possible and equitable for all in a future to come
Storie di Secondos nel Canton Ticino: ‘Voglio che la mia voce si senta’
No full textEssere «Secondos» nel Canton Ticino? Lo studio qualitativo svolto dall’Università della Svizzera italiana nell’ambito delle attività del progetto europeo «Bridge – Percorsi di successo per le seconde generazioni di migranti» intende ricostruire attraverso interviste semi-strutturate i percorsi autobiografici di 20 discendenti di migranti che vivono nel Canton Ticino e che sono nati in Svizzera da genitori stranieri o sono giunti in Svizzera durante l’infanzia o l’adolescenza. I vissuti e le aspirazioni delle seconde generazioni d’immigrati del Canton Ticino sono confrontati con i risultati di ricerche dal carattere più ampio condotte nelle altre aree linguistiche della Svizzera.Wie geht es jungen Menschen der zweiten Generation im Kanton Tessin? Sind ihre Erfahrungen vergleichbar mit denjenigen in anderen Regionen der Schweiz? Diesen Fragen ist Paolo Ruspini in einer Untersuchung nachgegangen, die im
Rahmen des europäischen Forschungsprojekts «Bridge – Percorsi di successo per le seconde generazioni di migranti»
durchgeführt wurde. Anhand von halbstrukturierten Interviews mit zwanzig jungen Männern und Frauen, die als Kinder von Migrantinnen und Migranten im Kanton Tessin geboren wurden oder im Kindesalter in die Schweiz kamen, konnten deren Integrationsverläufe nachgezeichnet und analysiert werden. Die Erfahrungen dieser jungen Leute können im Spannungsfeld zwischen Diskriminierung und Selbstausgrenzung verortet werden. Die wirtschaftliche Situation ist im Tessin relativ
angespannt, und es kommt vor, dass Einheimische auf dem Arbeitsmarkt von Grenzgängern konkurrenziert werden. Secondos erleben bei der Arbeitssuche oftmals, dass man sie aufgrund ihres fremdländischen Namens oder Aussehens in
die Kategorie «Ausländer» abschiebt, selbst wenn sie eine erfolgreiche Schulkarriere im Kanton absolviert haben. Die
Diskriminierungserfahrungen – so die Resultate der Studie – führen unter anderem zu Selbstausgrenzung und Rückzug in
eine «eigene Welt». Der Autor plädiert dafür, dass im Rahmen der Integrationsmassnahmen im Kanton Tessin der Gruppe der Secondos besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt werden sollte, damit die jungen Menschen nicht im Status von «Papierlischweizern» verharren müssen und sich absondern, sondern als Bürgerinnen und Bürger anerkannt werden, die am gesellschaftlichen Leben teilnehmen
Transatlantic Ties
No full textIn the ten years since 1992, the process of European integration has tended to foster scepticism in the USA. The main US current affairs journals (see Di Leo, Il primato americano, 2000) portray European Governments as being weak in internal affairs (that is, above all, they have welfare states they cannot dismantle) and in competition with each other in foreign affairs (either they are jockeying for the leadership of Europe or they disagree about initiatives by individual members towards ‘rogue states’ such as Iraq, Iran and Libya): in Washington’s view, Europeans need the USA’s help on the international stage. (...
Public Policies and Community Services for Immigrant Integration: Italy and the European Union
No full textThe starting point of this work was a review of legislation and proposals of legislationof the European Commission, Directorate ‘Justice and Home Affairs’ and ‘Employmentand Social Affairs’, on employment and integration policy. This research activityallowed us to acquire a satisfying legislative framework on EC programmes of socialinclusion adopted before and after the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997).In particular, article 13 of this Treaty and the subsequent directives gave a strongimpetus to the fight against discrimination, the adoption of race equality policy, therecognition of fundamental rights and thus the issue of social inclusion in its widerscope. Moving from these few considerations and recent EC proposals of legislation(CEC, 2003a) linking employment strategies with integration policies for third countrynationals, our research focused on the measures for immigrant integration in hostsocieties.Building upon the acquired research experience in migration and its policy managementat EU ‘old’ and ‘new’ Member States level, we opted for a comparative method ofanalysis implying two levels of governance: national and supranational. Moreover, thefundamental importance of social dialogue, expressed not only in the 1993 ‘GreenPaper’ on European social policy but strongly reaffirmed in recent EC Communicationssuch as ‘On a Community Immigration Policy’ (CEC, 2000) and ‘On an Open Methodof Coordination for the Community Immigration Policy’ (CEC, 2001b), urged us tolook carefully at the role of NGOs and migrants’ associations in combating socialexclusion. This paper carefully reviews the immigrant integration practicesimplemented by public and private actors in Italy. The overview of the Italian caseallows us to identify critical points, but also to observe how a quite recent nationalexperience in managing migration makes it possible to outline comparable explanatorymodels.Finally, notwithstanding the similarities between countries, the lack of a single modelfor implementing integration policies emphasizes the peculiarities of geographicalcontexts and different migratory experiences, such that it is necessary to call for somecommon standards. The second part of this paper, ‘Immigration, integration andemployment: the current EU state of play’, focuses on legislative proposals and ECtrends in the harmonisation of integration policies. A number of conclusiverecommendations aim to match the Italian and EU countries’ experience
Migrants Unbound
No full textThis book includes a selection of papers written in the last ten years (2009-2019) in affiliation to Swiss academic institutions. They have been updated and edited for this publication. The idea behind the present collection is to make full value of comparative research carried out both from a theoretical or empirical perspective on different categories of migrants from the elderly to second generation and from low to highly skilled, originating from a variety of regions and geographical contexts. They come from the Sub-Saharan African region as well as Western and Eastern Europe presently living on the European continent. Paolo Ruspini is a political scientist who has been researching issues of international and European migration and integration since 1997 with a comparative approach and by drawing on mixed methods. His current research deals with transnational migration from a theoretical and empirical perspective
Tra passato e presente, tra memorie e mobilità: vecchia e nuova migrazione italiana in Svizzera
No full textLo scopo di questo breve articolo è di fare il punto sulla presenza italiana in Svizzera alla luce dell’evolversi del quadro economico e politico della Confederazione. A questo fine si accennerà ai profili migratori dei migranti di prima generazione giunti in Svizzera in modo consistente dopo il secondo conflitto mondiale per confrontarli con i nuovi arrivi del secolo in corso. Le ipotesi di ricerca a cui tentare di fornire delle prime risposte vertono attorno al cambiamento della composizione dei flussi migratori italiani e all’influenza che le politiche economiche e migratorie nazionali ed europee hanno avuto in merito
Nuovi modi di pensare l’Europa
No full text“L’Europa non si potrà fare contro, ma solo con le nazioni e con le loro legittime specificità, e dal canto loro le nazioni dovranno imparare a vedere anche se stesse come agglomerati di diverse componenti etniche, linguistiche e culturali” . (H. Schulze, Il ritorno di Europa. La nuova Germania e il vecchio continente, Donzelli, Roma, 1995, p.42.) Dall'introduzione "L'Europa che nasce": "Provate a dare uno sguardo ad una cartina geografica del continente all’inizio del nuovo millennio e cercate di immaginare... Un mare sempre più piccolo, il Mediterraneo, culla di antiche civiltà, attraversato da movimenti sempre più fitti di uomini da sud a nord, e di merci da sud a nord -manufatti non finiti- e da nord a sud -manufatti finiti-. La globalizzazione permea anche il Vecchio Continente con le sue potenzialità e le sue logiche di profitto e sfruttamento. Da più di dieci anni la “cortina di ferro” non esiste più e ora l’Est spinge per entrare nell’Unione. A metà novembre del 2001 l’Unione europea ha annunciato che a 10 paesi - Repubblica Ceca, Estonia, Ungheria, Lettonia, Lituania, Polonia, Slovacchia, Slovenia, Malta e Cipro - sarà consentito di accedere all’Unione prima delle elezioni del Parlamento europeo del giugno 2004. Chi l’avrebbe mai detto solo dieci anni fa? Inoltre tre di questi paesi sono passati dal Patto di Varsavia alla Nato. Sembrano veramente altri tempi quelli della Guerra Fredda. Con i nuovi ingressi nell’Unione cambieranno molte cose: anzitutto le istituzioni segneranno il passo e dovranno confrontarsi con le nuove realtà." (...
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