Giovanna Campani

University of Florence | UNIFI · Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione e Psicologia

Italian political history over the last 100 years offers a unique opportunity to analyse the relationships between fascism and populism. Neo-fascism represents a political movement—deeply rooted in Italian history—dating back to the end of the 1940s; over the years, it has been expressed in various ways, some of which have been incorporated into pa...

e paper focuses on the European LeFamSol Project dedicated to women native to Sub-Saharan Africa. Following its objectives, the Project has developed several practice-oriented pedagogical actions relying on survival strategies, and networking competences coupled with gender awareness. e core idea is to train female African migrants to become “resou...

In general, loneliness in dating relationships, and especially among adolescent couples, might be linked to gender socialization as a binary and opposite reality for men and women. Therefore, boys and girls learn that their world and the ways in which they can express themselves are completely different and distant, and so, they can often feel lone...

The article presents the models of the intercultural curriculum in Europe, today; it points out that explicit intercultural curricula are not part of the mainstream European educations systems. The author denounces also the attack to multicul- turalism done by some European governments.

This chapter1 looks at migrant women’s ‘frozen professional destiny’ using a gender perspective, taking into account the ‘gender systems’ that exist in Southern Europe. These are characterized, especially in some countries, by strong inequalities between men and women, as is testified by the annual Global Gender Gap Report (Hausmann et al, 2012), w...

This chapter analyses the changing construction of trafficking as a global issue. It considers amongst other factors the first international conferences and conventions which introduced a new perspective to trafficking compared with the early twentieth century idea of ‘White trade’, which linked it strictly to prostitution. It looks at the definiti...

Women immigrants in a blocked society: individual itineraries and collective organizations in Italy An analysis of the Italian migratory situation shows that foreigners who work in the domestic sector and care for the elderly find themselves in a “blocked” situation without prospects of escape. This is parallel to a real “backlash” or “counter-atta...

In order to highlight third country nationals’ (TCN) integration processes in the Italian context, the chapter, based on the data collected for the PRIMTS research project (state of art, statistics, and fieldwork), analyzes the demographic, economic, social, and political factors that have shaped the migratory flows and the immigrants’ position in...

The majority of migrant women who came to the old immigration countries of Northern and Western Europe in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s were able to integrate into regulated labour markets. In contrast, in many European countries recent female immigrants find openings mostly within informal labour markets: domestic services, sex industries, agriculture...

The migratory phenomenon in Italy is in full evolution: the number of immigrants has doubled within a few years. The increasing female characterization of these migrants has just recently been recognized as a structural feature. For many years, female migration was only considered to be a stabilizing factor of migration flows1. Actually, in Italy f...

La presenza in Italia di minori immigrati non accompagnati è un fenomeno recente e tuttavia in forte crescita. Questo testo raccoglie i risultati di quella che potremmo definire la seconda di tre tappe di una ricerca europea incentrata sullo studio del fenomeno dei minori immigrati non accompagnati, avviata nel 2000 e da poco terminata. L’indagine...

L'auteure traite de la position des femmes dans les migrations internationales, avec une attention particuliere a leur situation sur le marche du travail en Italie, un pays ou l'economie informelle represente une part Importante des activites productives. D'abord, les elements qui distinguent les migrations internationales contemporaines de celles...

The feminization of migration flows is an important trend in contemporary international migration. Women are playing an increasingly important role in all types of migration in all regions of the world (Castles and Miller, 1993, p. 8). Female migration is part of a global change in migratory phenomena affecting both the sending and the receiving co...

Immigration into Italy for the purpose of work is a quite new phenomenon in the general landscape of migrations which have interested, and still interest, European countries. In Italy, the transition from emigration country to immigration country took place in 1975, when, for the first time since the unification of the country (1870), the migratory...

According to United Nations data, almost half of all international migrants in the world are women; even if official statistics, at world and national level, cannot be considered reliable (they use different sources and are not always up to date), they show a major trend in migratory movements: an increase in the movement of women and an increased...

Against the background of an overview of the new patterns of determinants of international migration, the article documents the transition of Italy from being a society of emigration to a society of immigration. It documents the nature of recent migration flows into Italy, and the political debate about these immigrations. In the light of an analys...

Un mundo a parte : i Cinesi in Toscana Giovanna CAMPANI - Lucia MADDII L'articolo descrive l'immigrazione cinese in Italia, focalizzandosi sulla communità cinese di Toscana, una delle più importanti del paese. Questa comunità, la cui formazione risale soltanto ad una decina d'anni, si é sviluppata nei tradizionali distretti industriali della pellet...

In an increasingly interdependent and inter‐linked world, the phenomenon of migration takes on added importance. It has existed in Europe for many years even if in recent times the immigrants have come from outside Europe rather than from southern European to northern European countries. Economic problems have stimulated increased xenophobia on the...

We are presently witnessing a new phase of international migration in Europe the characteristics of which are different from the ones which have preceded it. In this paper we are going to raise some questions concerning these new migratory movements, particularly with regard to those affecting Italy1. To start with, we will analyze some effects of...

PIP: Recent trends in female immigration to Italy are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to the immigration of women from Cape Verde and the Philippines. The author notes that although women from these countries are primarily employed on the fringes of the economy as domestic servants, they are often able to improve their skills and socioeconom...

Dal Terzo Mondo al Sud Europa : donne immigrate in Italia. Giovanna CAMPANI Il testo descrive la nuova migrazione internazionale femminile in Italia, tema ancora poco studiato e poco conosciuto. Tradizionalmente paese d'emigrazione, l'Italia é diventata, negli ultimi dieci anni, meta di correnti migratorie provenienti dal Terzo Mondo : le cause di...

La Rete Associativa Italiana in Francia ed i Giovani Giovana CAMPANI e Mauricio CATANI Dopo aver criticalo l'idea di una completa assimilazione dell'immigrazione italiana per via della sua anzianità, la seconda parte dell'articolo distingue le diverse « generazioni » d'Italiani in Francia. Evitando di trattare la questione degli « assimilati », si...