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Il mosaico territoriale europeo: La coesione territoriale per il post-2020 e le sue sfide tra demografia, migrazioni e disuguaglianze
No full textThis article examines some of the most relevant challenges to territorial cohesion in
the European Union and its neighborhood. Through a mix of quantitative data and
document analysis, the author provides an overview of demographic, migration and
economic inequality aspects across the area with the scope of underlining that European
territories are characterized by different performances. Such differences should
be addressed by the next Cohesion Fund’s long-term EU budget, in order to avoid
further segmentations between territories. The author indicates also what should be
some of the thematic priorities of the post-2020 territorial policies
L’a-storicità del dibattito contemporaneo sulle migrazioni
No full textThis paper contends that the political and media narratives regarding contemporary migratory flows fail to provide their audiences with an historical perspective on the matter. In such form, the debate has been reduced to a mere dialectical confrontation between those showing solidarity and those supporting a securitization approach towards asylum seekers and migration policies in general. Through an analysis that critically reflects on the concepts of imperialism and racial capitalism, which are declined in the context of the so-called neoliberal globalization, the author intends to demonstrate that the flows from Africa to Europe are to be interpreted as physiological movements from the «periphery» to the «center» within a system of unequal relations set up by different state and non-state actors. Contemporary migrations should not be conceptualized as external issues to the Europe and the West, but rather as a structural dynamic that finds its roots in the very functioning of international capitalism
A flow within the flow: dynamics of 2015 and post-2015 migration from the Western Balkans to EU countries
No full textThis article focuses on the recent flow of asylum seekers from the Western Balkans to EU countries. It contends that the comparison with statistics of other extra-EU28 asylum seekers and migrants reveals specific features that justify the description of mobility from the Western Balkans as a distinct “flow within the flow”. In fact, such a flow was not rooted in humanitarian issues, but was rather part of the established labor mobility dynamics in the region. In this sense, mobility from the area is not understood as a new trend but in terms of continuity stemming from the economic system interconnecting the EU and its neighborhood, of which the Balkans are a part. The pivotal year for the analysis is identified as 2015, when mass migration flows transited along the “Balkan Route” in their quest to reach the central and northern countries of the continent. The author concludes that, although on a larger scale, the 2015 flows that originated from the Western Balkan countries are the outgrowth of ongoing relations, especially for what concerns labor market dynamics between the two neighboring regions. This article features some data and maps elaborated in the framework of activities for the targeted analysis “MIGRATUP – Territorial and Urban Potentials Connected to Migration and Refugee Flows”, financed by ESPON, which ran from July 2017 to July 2018
I confini come linee di instabilità in Africa
No full textLa complessità della questione dei confini in Africa poggia su due aspetti, uno giuridico e l’altro politico: primo, l’estraneità della nozione di frontiera portata dai conquistatori europei, rispetto alla consuetudine africana pre-coloniale. Secondo, il carattere di arbitrarietà con cui i confini sono stati tracciati dagli europei a partire dal XIX secolo. Il saggio si pone lo scopo di ricostruire il profilo di instabilità dei confini africani, partendo dall’analisi del concetto di territorio rinvenibile nella tradizione africana. Con la struttura teorica delineata, casi specifici saranno analizzati alla luce delle forme organizzative delle società tradizionali africane, e si cercherà di fornire una chiave interpretativa dei conflitti esplosi nel continente a partire dalla sua indipendenza
The Role of the Safety Net in the Integration Process: Evidence from the Somali Diaspora in Scandinavia
No full textThis article examines the question of integration of Somali refugees and descendants in Scandinavia through an approach focusing on the practices and understandings of the “safety net,” which is defined as the sum of the strategies put in place to cope with social risks. The analysis sheds light on the normativity enshrined in the safety net and on the implications of the divergences between the integration policies and the Somalis’ conceptualizations and experiences of social security. The article draws on excerpts from 22 interviews conducted between 2015 and 2017 among the Somali diaspora in Scandinavia
The OAU and the question of borders
No full textNone of the borders shaping modern African countries have existed in the same guise prior to the Europeans' arrival. Especially starting from the nineteenth century, European powers increasingly deprived lands in Africa of their native social organization, in pursuance of vital space for the colonial machinery. The boundary lines created throughout Africa are indeed a genuine product of colonialism and were used to delimit artificial spaces of dominance. Within these areas, in fact, both subjugating powers and social representations acted to the detriment of the Africans
Tendenze islamiste in Somalia fino ad al Shabaab
No full textSomalia e Islam si incontrano per la prima volta a pochi anni dall'Egira, la fuga di Maometto a Medina (622 a.C.). Dopo aver stabilito basi commerciali a Zeila, Merca e Brava, già nel Seicento mercanti arabi e persiani diffondono l'Islam nel Corno d'Africa, in virtù dei frequenti scambi che la Penisola Arabica intratteneneva con quest'area. Intorno al decimo secolo. gli,stessi mercanti fondano Mogadiscio: le moschee della capitale, datate intorno al tredicesimo secolo, sarebbero oggi tra le più antiche di tutta la costa dell'Africa Orientale. Nei secoli successivi al Settìmo le pratiche mistiche dell'area cuscitica, il culto dei santi in primis,si fonderanno gradualmente nella nuova religione, contribuendo a realizzare una forma "dinamica", non rigorosa di Islam
Le politiche di attivazione nei paesi scandinavi. Le minoranze tra responsabilità individuale e tensione comunitaria
No full textThe 1970s initiated a period of restructuring of welfare policies in Scandinavian countries that would create the conditions to reduce welfare state's public responsibility. The development of activation policies in the mid-1990s shall be understood within this framework, and in this article, I will contemplate the shift towards more individual responsibility for welfare promoted by institutions, and its effects among non-national minorities living in Scandinavia., I will present evidence from interviews held with Somali refugees, reunified family members and their descendants. In lieu of a focus on the institutional and discursive aspects of the matter, my analysis concerns instances of lived experiences of social change. The aim of this article is reconnecting policies with first-hand accounts of individuals, underlining obstacles and opportunities in their implementatio
F. Sarr, Afrotopia, 2018
No full textLa recente traduzione in italiano del volume Afrotopia, scritto dall’economista e sociologo senegalese Felwine Sarr, è un segnale positivo rispetto alla sbalorditiva disattenzione che nel nostro Paese si continua a registrare sulla vasta tematica dell’Africa e dei suoi rapporti col mondo. Lo dimostra la stessa bibliografia citata nel libro, che solo in parte risulta disponibile in una edizione in lingua italiana. Tra le opere non fruibili in italiano, ad esempio, sono inclusi alcuni dei lavori di prominenti africanisti e intellettuali africani come P. Manning, V.Y. Mudimbe e C.A. Diop
Complexity, connections and prospects of recent migration flows in the Adriatic-Ionian and Danube regions
No full textSince the mass migration registered in 2015 along the so-called Balkan Route, the debate about migration in Europe has quickly polarized between the proponents of unconditional humanitarian solidarity towards asylum seekers and supporters of different degrees of securitization. While the arguments of the former draw on principles of humanitarianism and international law, the latter have especially presented asylum seekers and economic migrants as threats to Europe’s national identities,socialsecurity and welfare systems. Transcending the specific types of argumentation put forward by each party, the narratives surrounding migration dynamics often seem dominated by an understanding of migration that is strictly associated with the idea of lacking resources
and space, both physically and figuratively, to host newcomers. Within this general understanding, the debate has developed in terms of how the reception and integration of asylum seekers can fit into existing communities without generating social tensions, often neglecting the discussion of the territorial needs to which newcomers may contribute through their skill
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