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Per una critica all’uso della ‘vulnerabilità’ nelle politiche su migrazione e asilo
No full textIn the current public debate on asylum and migration, there is a growing emphasis on the need to protect the most vulnerable - such as minors, pregnant women, LGBTQI people, people with disabilities and women victims of gender-based violence. In fact, the concept of ‘vulnerability’ is playing an increasingly central role in migration and international protection policies, first and foremost at borders and in protection claim procedures, but also in programmes for the resettlement or relocation of refugees in countries of the global South
Growing Up in the Second Rome: Eritrean Migrant Women Remember their Childhood in Postcolonial Asmara
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Intersezionalità
No full textNel corso degli ultimi anni, il termine ‘intersezionalità’ è entrato a far parte sempre più del lessico nel dibattito politico e sociale, in Italia. Il suo utilizzo può esser fatto risalire al corrispettivo lemma inglese ‘intersectionality’ che ha iniziato ad avere una sua circolazione negli Stati Uniti già a partire dalla fine degli anni Ottant
Migrants in Europe’s Domestic and Care Sector: The Institutional Response
No full textThis article draws attention to the case of migrant domestic and care workers employed by European household to provide home-based services such as cleaning, elderly care and childcare. We examine the impact of the pandemic on their conditions by looking at policy responses addressing their case and, when available, to statistical and qualitative data on their conditions before, during and after the pandemic crisis.
Previous studies have shown that migrant domestic and care workers are more likely to work under precarious labour conditions compared to others (e.g. Lightman 2017, Jokela 2019). Furthermore, earlier research shows that institutions play a crucial role in shaping simultaneously their legal status as migrants and their employment status as workers (Williams & Gavanas 2008, Hellgren 2015, Jokela 2017). Governments may enhance their status through policies that regulate the migrants’ employment in the sector, or they may increase precariousness by promoting informal and irregular work, or through households offering incentives for households that actually weaken workers' positions. Different policy approaches to care needs of households with elderly members or young children also play an important role.
We also know from earlier studies that there are significant cross-country differences in the status and employment conditions of these migrant workers, in Europe (Marchetti and Triandafyllidou 2014, 2017). In some countries, they enjoy the same labour rights as other workers, while in other countries they only benefit partly. Some countries have chosen the no policy option, leaving these workers in a very precarious situation. Above all, there is also the particular role of EU institutions which have been ambivalent on their position on this sector so far, and we might see how they react to this new challenge.
Building on the awareness on the role of institutional actors, we first examine cross-nationally the policy responses taken by different countries to support migrant domestic and care workers throughout the pandemic by looking at whether they implemented specific measures (e.g. monetary income-support, unemployment benefits, health insurance provision, etc.) addressing their situation. We also review measures taken to support employers (e.g. cash transfers for home-based childcare) which might have had an effect on migrant workers in this field. This is done on the basis of institutional reports published in these months (e.g. Gentilini et al. 2020, ILO 2020).
Secondly, we assess the impact of the pandemic (and related policies) on workers (employment status, hours, demographics, wages, etc.) and on migration status (residents permits, etc.) on the basis of public databases and other secondary data sources.
Finally, we also discuss whether current policies have reinforced existing inequalities and outline what policies we might hope for future scenarios
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
Vulnerabilità in migrazione: sguardi critici su asilo e protezione internazionale in Italia
Full text linkIn the political and legal debate on migration and asylum there is a growing emphasis on situations of vulnerability, and the concept of ‘vulnerability’ plays an increasingly central role in migration policies. However, the issue is often addressed in reductive or instrumental ways. Through a selection of interdisciplinary contributions from the conference “Vulnerability in Migration” (Venice 2023) and the results from Italy in the H2020 research project VULNER – Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime, the volume provides tools for understanding the multiple dimensions at play, interrogating rights, policies, discourses, and social practices
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