Maurizio Ambrosini

Maurizio Ambrosini
University of Milan | UNIMI · Department of Social and Political Sciences

Professor of Sociology

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Introduction
Maurizio Ambrosini, phd e-mail address: maurizio.ambrosini@unimi.it - Professor, university of Milan, - Chargé d’enseignement, university of Sophia-Antipolis, Nice (France) - Professor at the Italian Campus of Stanford University - Editor of the journal “Mondi migranti” - Member of the scientific committee of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies - Director of the Genoa’s Sociology of Migrations Summer School - expert at CNEL (National Council of Economy and Labour, Rome)
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October 2005 - present
University of Milan
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  • Professor (Full)
October 2005 - present
University of Milan
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  • Professor (Full)
Description
  • Professor of Sociology of Migration and Migration Policies
October 1998 - September 2005
Università degli Studi di Genova
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  • Professor (Associate)
Education
November 1975 - November 1979

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Publications (169)
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The article treats the demand of women workforce in Italy and in Southern Europe, hired to satisfy the need of care activities in the families, and producing an international stratification of family care. Then it talks about the ways in which mothers separated from their children try to continue to perform their parental duties, notwithstanding fr...
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Il libro riguarda il ritorno di enfasi sui confini nazionali, e i suoi effetti sulla protezione dei diritti umani di migranti e rifugiati, da varie prospettive disciplinari
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Sebbene le istanze per la limitazione delle migrazioni internazionali fossero già da tempo pressanti, gli attentati dell’11 settembre 2001 sono assurti a momento emblematico di svolta della politica dei confini. Il nuovo secolo si è aperto sotto il segno della riaffermazione della volontà dei governi nazionali, e di riflesso delle istituzioni europ...
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Il capitolo propone una lettura insieme sintetica e interpretativa dei principali risultati della ricerca e delle tendenze che si delineano per l'evoluzione del pluralismo religioso generato dall'immigrazione in Lombardia. Ricordiamo che l'analisi si basa sulla raccolta di dati relativi a circa 350 comunità religiose promosse o frequentate da perso...
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La nostra ricerca ha mappato, in Lombardia, 347 luoghi di culto fondati e frequentati da popolazioni immigrate, ma le sole comunità evangelicali sono più di 400. Pur essendoci in Italia minoranze religiose storiche, soprattutto valdesi ed ebrei, il pluralismo religioso è cresciuto, si è diffuso negli spazi urbani, e talvolta in territori extraurban...
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This article elaborates on the activities developed by various actors from the civil society in favour of non-deported refused asylum seekers (NDRAS) through the lens of ‘de-bordering solidarity’. Drawing on qualitative data collected in two small Italian cities ruled by anti-immigrant coalitions, this study explores the rationales and outcomes of...
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This paper analyzes the experiences of children of immigrants coming to Italy from Turkey. It does so by using in-depth interviews and looking at how they conceptualize their sense of belonging to their home country and the transnational ties that they maintain in relation to their parents' experience. The participants in this research grew up in f...
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This paper has two purposes. The first is theoretical: to revise use of the concept of moral economy in migration studies, and the related concept of deservingness. I will identify different versions and meanings, showing their significant contribution to the understanding of migration issues, but discussing their lack of consideration of a particu...
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This article advances understandings of collective remittances practices by elaborating on the case of the Armenian diaspora in the Netherlands. It argues that the collection, management, and distribution of collective remittances are crucial aspects of how diasporic immigrant groups function. Hence, collective remittances represent a lens through...
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What is a research brief and what does it stands for? A research brief is less than a policy note and more than an individual expression of research interest. It brings together the knowledge of this working group. It aims to think outside the box and promotes interdisciplinary thought. It delineates future lines of research and explains why these...
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This article aims at discussing the involvement of “humanitarian” actors, stemming from civil society, in treatment of the issue of refugees’ reception. It suggests the concept of “de-bordering solidarity,” to express the political meaning of such mobilizations. With this term, it refers to various forms of support provided by activists and volunte...
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Riassunto. L’articolo si propone due obiettivi. In primo luogo intende approfondire il tema del ritorno dei confini, illustrandone l’articolazione a diversi livelli e il funzionamento selettivo, come effetto di un regime neo-liberale di governo della mobilità umana: un regime che incorpora disuguaglianze profonde nella distribuzione del diritto a m...
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Resettlement of refugees in third countries has seen a growing intervention by various civil society actors in the last few years, starting from the Canadian experience. Also in Europe, these sponsorship schemes are developing, despite a general restriction of asylum policies. This paper will analyse a case of civil society’s sponsorship, which has...
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Immigrant volunteering is usually absent from the debate on the reconfiguration of citizenship ‘from below’. Indeed, it has been generally considered a conservative force, if anything, an instrument of fuller integration. Building on 25 interviews with young migrant volunteers, this paper aims to fill this gap. It shows that, even if immigrant volu...
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Questa introduzione presenta la cornice teorica in cui si situano gli articoli di seguito selezionati per la pubblicazione. La cittadinanza sostanziale o vissuta è emersa nelle scienze sociali in contrappunto rispetto alla cittadinanza formale o legale. Così concepita, diventa l'oggetto di molteplici pratiche e rivendicazioni sviluppate da soggetti...
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Immigrant volunteering is a disputed topic. For some scholars, an important instrument for the social integration of immigrants, while others frame immigrant volunteerism as a regime of 'ethical citizenship' centred around the paradigms of 'civic integration' and 'deservingness'. Our research collected the experiences of hundreds of migrant volunte...
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The multi-level governance (MLG) approach is widely used to understand the complex processes of immigration policymaking. In this literature review, we consider both (i) the vertical dimension of MLG: the local, regional, national, European, or even global level; and (ii) the horizontal dimension of MLG: the relations between public and non-public...
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In Italy, the strong desire to take care of the elderly at home and within the family opens the border to migrant care workers. Despite an increasing focus on the closure of borders, migrant care workers are considered desirable immigrants and are generally socially accepted in Italian society because they are believed to fulfil an indispensable ro...
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La trasformazione multireligiosa dell’Italia è uno dei più rilevanti fenomenisociali seguiti ai flussi migratori, nonché una delle questioni più controverse. L’articolo entra nel merito del nuovo pluralismo e discute il rapporto tra le comunità religiose ristabilite dagli immigrati e i processi di integrazione che ne derivano. Dopo una rassegna del...
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In this article – based on 100 in-depth interviews with divided and reunited Bangladeshi families in Italy, Bangladesh, and London – we discuss how remittances are influenced by gender relations within the family, what social meanings they assume, what family memberships they reinforce, how the intertwining between migration and family cycle affect...
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Immigrants’ informal welfare. Ethnic churches and social inclusion processes in Milan In Italy, over the last decades, migration flows have generated an unprecedented religious pluralism. However, the phenomenon is still neglected within migration studies. Moreover, the over-representation of Islam as empirical focus has limited the field of resear...
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Big international events, such as Olympic games or International Expositions, are stimulating a relevant social phenomenon in recent years, that is also visible in other circumstances, e.g. mass emergencies or humanitarian crises: a mobilisation of volunteers to a single issue, for a short period, but with an intensive dedication. This occurs outsi...
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Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration policies. The article considers three of them: the “venue shopping approach”, the “multi-level governance approach” and critical humanitarian studies. The purpose is to contribute to...
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The intervention finds three relevant points in Faist’s book. The first is the increasing selectivity of migration policies, highlighted by the “mobility paradox”, namely the tension between aspirations to find a better life abroad and political opportunities to migrate to the global North. The second point is the vision of social protection across...
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This article investigates the relationship between integration processes and religious participation through an analysis of migrant churches established in the city of Milan. While in Europe most public opinion and literature are focused on Islam, and religion is often viewed as an impediment and barrier to integration, this work wants instead to d...
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‘Going beyond the challenge’ means looking at the phenomenon of migration in its complexity, through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. The chapters that make up the first part offer an over-view of the phenomenon, with a reflection on the numbers of migrations in Italy followed by an in-depth examination of its international dimension. The se...
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MARTEDÌ 24 NOVEMBRE ore 16,30/18,30 MIGRAZIONI E RELIGIONI Riproponiamo anche questo autunno una serie di seminari che prendono spunto dalle tematiche a cui i promotori e la rivista Mondi Migranti hanno dedicato studi, approfondimenti e monografie. L'attività di Mondi Migranti è sostenuta da
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La cittadinanza è un istituto fondamentale dei sistemi democratici, ma ha da sempre un duplice volto: include chi la possiede, attribuendogli vari diritti, ma esclude in linea di principio chi ne è privo. Non è però una prerogativa immutabile, non è un blocco omogeneo, non si limita alla dimensione legale: non separa in maniera netta e inequivocabi...
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Immigration has transformed the social, economic, political and cultural landscapes of global cities such as London, Melbourne, Milan and Amsterdam. The term 'superdiversity' captures a new era of migration-driven demographic diversifications and associated complexities. Superdiversity is the future or, in many cases, the current reality of neighbo...
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Supporters of irregular migrants play an important role in the interactions between irregular migrants and the state. This article aims to shed light on the variety of actors involved in the support of irregular migrants and what kind of help they provide. The article asks whether this kind of help should be seen as purely humanitarian or as a form...
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Licenza d'uso L'articoloè messo a disposizione dell'utente in licenza per uso esclusivamente privato e personale, senza scopo di lucro e senza fini direttamente o indirettamente commerciali. Salvo quanto espressamente previsto dalla licenza d'uso Rivisteweb,è fatto divieto di riprodurre, trasmettere, distribuire o altrimenti utilizzare l'articolo,...
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Programma Scuola autunnale Mondi Migranti 2020: Brescia, 5-8 ottobre
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La pandemia da COVID-19 si è intrecciata con le questioni dell'immigrazione e dell'asilo in diversi modi. Nel momento in cui questo editoriale viene redatto (fine maggio 2020) l'emergenza non è finita, le sue conseguenze socio-economiche rimangono incerte nelle loro proporzioni, l'efficacia delle misure di protezione e rilancio varate dal governo è...
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Supporters of irregular migrants play an important role in the interactions between irregular migrants and the state. This article aims to shed light on the variety of actors involved in the support of irregular migrants and what kind of help they provide. The article asks whether this kind of help should be seen as purely humanitarian or as a form...
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Con riferimento al tema delle migrazioni, il concetto di integrazione ha assunto numerose accezioni nel lungo ed articolato dibattito delle scienze sociali. A fronte dei numerosi tentativi di inquadramento sul piano scientifico, nel senso comune così come nel dibattito politico, il concetto stenta ad emanciparsi da accezioni normative che vedono ne...
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Abstract The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue: many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and cooperative behaviour cannot be taken for granted. The multi-level governance approach sheds light on the possible patterns in vertical relations, while it does not effect...
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Si intitola Volontari inattesi ed è la prima indagine nazionale sull’“impegno sociale delle persone di origine immigrata”. Curata da Maurizio Ambrosini e Deborah Erminio per il centro studi Medì, è stata promossa da CSVnet e condotta sul campo nel 2019 prevalentemente dai Centri di servizio per il volontariato. I risultati che ne emergono rovescia...
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PREFAZIONE I pregi delle democrazie liberali non consistono nel potere di chiudere le proprie frontiere, bensì nella capacità di prestare ascolto alle richieste di coloro che, per qualunque ragione, bussano alle porte" (S. Benhabib, 2005, 223). Questo libro intende fornire uno strumento rigoroso, sintetico e organizzato per accostarsi alle migrazio...
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Questo fascicolo di Mondi migranti intende stimolare l’attenzione verso i fenomeni religiosi connessi all’immigrazione, partendo dalla constatazione di quanto siano rilevanti per gli interessati e di quanto influenzino i processi d’integrazione nelle società riceventi. La riflessione prende le mosse dalla constatazione che la religione non è mai so...
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The article argues that the governance of immigration, especially at local level, can be considered a “battleground” involving diverse actors. Beyond the idea of a “negotiated order” as the result of the interaction among actors (mainly institutional) in the multilevel governance framework, the management of asylum at a local level is the outcome o...
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Quando si parla di famiglia, sul piano sociale, politico, etico e anche religioso e dell’importanza della sua integrità, si pensa sempre solo alle famiglie autoctone, raramente a quelle degli immigrati. Allargando lo sguardo, vediamo che ogni migrante finisce per avere almeno tre famiglie: la prima è quella del paese d’origine; la seconda è quella...
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The chapter analyses how local policies of exclusion have been redirected in recent years towards a particular category of immigrants: namely asylum seekers, representing them as dangerous, undeserving and welfare scroungers. But these policies do not remain unchallenged. On the other side, local actors from the civil society mobilise in favour of...
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Molti immigrati trovano nelle appartenenze, aggregazioni e pratiche religiose un punto di riferimento importante nella loro esperienza di insediamento in terra straniera (Ambrosini, Naso e Paravati, 2018). Sul versante delle società riceventi, le religioni dei migranti sono invece perlopiù viste come un simbolo visibile di alterità e distanza cultu...
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La percezione di un’immigrazione montante e drammatica è un dato di senso comune così potente e comunemente accettato da non essere mai posto in discussione. Lo stesso accade per il rapporto tra immigrazione e povertà. E pochi osano avanzare dubbi nei confronti dell’inossidabile slogan “aiutiamoli a casa loro”. In realtà anche chi vorrebbe stare da...
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This article explores the issue of immigrant women entrepreneurship. It focuses on the emergence of new points of view on self‐employed migrant women and in particular their search for independence. With the support of qualitative research carried on in Italy, it will set out a typology of motivations and strategies to become self‐employed in which...
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During the fall 2015, Sweden had a large increase of asylum seekers, following an out-break of a civil war in Syria. As a consequence, the absorption capacity of the Swedish municipalities was stretched in terms of eg.schooling and housing. The parties were internally divided, and subsequently the differences of opinions were apparent within the sa...
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The settlement of Christian immigrants in Italy, is producing an evident phenomenon of pluralisation and de-Westernization of Christianity, including Catholicism; first of all, despite the debate on Islamization, pluralism concerns the main Italian religious denominations. This study has explored six ethnic Churches in Milan, both Catholic and evan...
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This article investigates the interconnections between migration to Europe for asylum and the multiple ‘crises’ of the border regime that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on 22 months of ethnographic research with refugees in Italy and Germany, the article highlights the tensions between migration policy and legislation at the structural le...
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This report has been prepared within the framework of the Erasmus+ project “Educating Social Partners towards Ethnic Diversity” funded by the Foundation for the Management of European Lifelong Learning Programmes of Cyprus (IDEP). The project is active in five (5) EU Member States: Cyprus, Greece, Italy, France and Denmark and is implemented in par...
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L’articolo introduce il fascicolo dedicato al decennale della rivista, in cui sono pubblicati gli articoli giudicati più meritevoli tra quelli selezionati in occasione del convegno del 18 gennaio 2018. L’introduzione fa il punto su dieci anni di analisi delle migrazioni, mettendo a fuoco i presupposti epistemologici della rivista “Mondi Migranti”,...
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Empirical research on sources of prejudice and anti-immigrant hostility has grown considerably over the years, and the literature on the topic has become substantial firstly in classical receiving countries and in recent years also in Europe. This work analyses the anti-immigrant attitudes in Italy. The main results of this study are three. The fir...
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In recent years, inflows of asylum seekers have become the main issue in the public discourse on immigration and borders have acquired a new relevance in politics. Southern Europe has often been seen as a point of entry into the inner part of the continent, and governments have been pressured to act as border guards of the EU. However, tragedies in...
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Southern European countries have rapidly changed their status, transforming from sending to (primarily) receiving countries in the 1980s. They followed their North-Western partners in the establishment of more rigid border controls, but this action conflicted with their labour market needs. In connection with the economic crisis that started in 200...
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Because unauthorized immigrants are officially excluded from formal labour markets, housing markets and most welfare provisions, they can settle only if they find other sources of work, income, housing, and social protection. In this regard, a crucial role is played by intermediaries, i.e., people or institutions who favour the entrance of immigran...
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Irregular immigration is a salient field of contemporary politics, involving interactions and clashes among globalization forces, political strategies, internal interests, humanitarian values, border nostalgia, and the aspirations, interests and needs of the people involved. The social conditions of asylum seekers and irregular migrants are not pro...
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Migration policies are selective and unequally restrictive, targeting in particular “poor” migrants coming from the Global South. However, despite harsh policies, irregular immigration persists. Several interests of global societies conflict with border closure, and the policies that are implemented do not always correspond with declared policies....
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Migrations are a crucial aspect of the globalization of current societies, as the Introduction to this book (Chap. 1) has highlighted. They can be defined as a form of “globalization from below”, carried out by common people in opposition to financial or economic globalization fostered by powerful vested interests and elitist actors. At the same ti...
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Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems. In doing so, it answers vital policy questions regarding the continued existence of irregular migration, pathways to legality, and relations between u...
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Il nuovo libro di Maurizio Ambrosini, Migrazioni, ed. EGEA (univ. Bocconi), 2017, si rivolge a un vasto pubblico per spiegare in modo piano e comprensibile un fenomeno complesso e controverso come quello migratorio. Suo obiettivo principale è quello di porre in discussione molti luoghi comuni sull’argomento, sulla base dei dati statistici e delle r...
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This article focuses on the provision of services to immigrant workers as a gateway to further inclusion and active participation in union activities. The experiences of the two main national unions in Italy are contextualized within the framework of other similar models, such as community unionism and worker centres. The specific contribution of t...
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Un viaggio a Erbil, la capitale del Kurdistan iracheno a pochi chilometri da Mosul, è l'occasione per gli autori di interrogar-si sulla sensatezza di slogan e luoghi comuni su profughi e rifugiati, che invitano ad «aiutarli a casa loro», o di farceli in qualche modo ritornare. Ma è davvero così semplice? Qual è realmente la situazione, quando si ri...
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pubblicato su: La Voce.info, 27 aprile 2017) Un altro capitolo si è aggiunto alla tragedia del Mediterraneo e alla drammatica saga dell'arrivo di migranti e richiedenti asilo dal mare. Con una sorta di escalation delle polemiche, ora sono sotto attacco politico, giudiziario e mediatico, le organizzazioni umanitarie che soccorrono migranti e richied...
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Italian trade unions have long since promoted the defense and inclusion of immigrant workers through the promotion, within their organizations, of specific services for immigrants providing information, guidance, and bureaucratic assistance, thus enhancing the growth of immigrant members within the unions. However, only recently unions have started...
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The economic crisis started in 2008 has heavily hit labour markets even in rich regions, spreading unemployment also among adult workers, who previously were in Italy quite well protected against economic downturns. The article presents a research study, conducted in Lombardy between September, 2009 and April, 2011, using different methods: a surve...
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In recent years the impact of the economic crisis on the labour markets of Western countries has been deeply analysed, but its effect on the labour market condition of immigrants is not yet entirely clear. On one hand, immigrants tend to enter into labour-intensive job positions, such as construction and manufacturing, which have been strongly affe...
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Oltre 4.000 persone, in gran parte giovani, hanno partecipato come volontari al grande appuntamento milanese di EXPO 2015. Questa ricerca ne ha approfondito i caratteri biografici, le motivazioni, le modalità di contatto con la proposta, i livelli di soddisfazione, le disponibilità all’impegno nel futuro. Ne è emerso il profilo di un volontariato p...
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Despite many efforts to combat irregular immigration, there is a widespread perception of a failure of public policies in this field. But because unauthorised immigrants are officially excluded from formal labour markets, housing markets and most welfare provisions, they can settle if they find other sources of work, income, housing, and social pro...
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The economic crisis started in 2008 has heavily hit labour markets even in rich regions, spreading unemployment also among adult workers, who previously were in Italy quite well protected against economic downturns. The article presents a research study, conducted in Lombardy between September, 2009 and April, 2011, using different methods: a surve...
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La llegada de refugiados en gran cantidad es percibida y representada en Italia, al igual que en el resto de Europa, como un peligro grave y una invasión que es preciso afrontar. Incluso, ha surgido la idea de los fenómenos migratorios gigantescos, que deben ser contenidos a toda costa. El objetivo principal del artículo es desbaratar ese escenario...
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In recent years the impact of the economic crisis on the labour markets of Western countries has been deeply analysed, but its effect on the labour market condition of immigrants is not yet entirely clear. On one hand, immigrants tend to enter into labour-intensive job positions, such as construction and manufacturing, which have been strongly affe...
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The arrival of a significant number of refugees is perceived and depicted in Italy as identical to that which occurred in the rest of Europe, as a grave danger and an invasion that is must be addressed. The perception of massive migratory phenomenon are also thought of as something that must be contained at all cost. The key aim of this article is...
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Building on a comparative study of the urban ‘adaptations’ of multiculturalism in eight European cities, this paper addresses four questions: 1) the changing relations between national and local immigrant policies; 2) the ways in which such policies are locally reshaped; 3) the involvement of civil society in the urban governance of immigration; 4)...
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In recent years international migrations have become one of the major issues on the political agenda of many governments. The so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe has dramatically increased this trend, rousing alarm in public opinion, demands for protection of national borders, tensions between states, the electoral decline of established parties a...
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The permanent settlement of immigrants of foreign origin, and then the formation of the second and third generations, has long contributed to re-launching the debate on the content and limits of the institution of citizenship, bringing into question the close connection with the national states. The increasing number and the growing diversity of th...
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Religioni, immigrazione e laicità degli Stati: equilibri mobili e dinamiche di cambiamento di Maurizio Ambrosini e Eva Garau. Religions, immigration and secularization of the States: balancing and transformation This article aims at summarizing the main conclusions of the essays collected in this volume by highlighting the common findings and the d...
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The article develops three arguments: 1) collective regularizations, very visible and aimed to involve big numbers of immigrants, occur mainly in Southern Europe, where segmented labour markets have pulled huge volumes of irregular labour between the end of '80 and the economic crisis started in 2008; 2) common regulations of entries in the Europea...
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In recent years Italy has become an important destination for migrants— about five million of them—originating from different countries About one million are Catholic. The Catholic Church supports them in several ways: it acts in the political game, claiming more rights for immigrants. Furthermore, Catholic institutions provide many services to imm...
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Immigration defined as "illegal" is a typical area where the dominant representations differ from social phenomena. Starting from this point, this article deals with two issues. The first is the selective treatment of irregular immigration by receiving societies. Diverse interests and social representations of irregular immigration tend to redefine...
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Immigrant female and also male workers are increasingly involved in the supply of care services in the countries of the Global North, and they are especially so in elderly care. In the countries of southern Europe, but to an increasing extent also in countries like Germany and Austria, the care work of immigrants is embedded in a specific care regi...
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Official policies toward irregular immigrants have hardened; but unauthorized sojourners nevertheless remain in their receiving countries. Their human rights must be in some way protected, and responses must be given to their social needs. Civil society organizations often provide these responses, in particular, by furnishing nonurgent medical care...
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Immigration issues have gained salience at political agendas of governments and in public discourse in most countries of the global North. Public attention for the presence of immigrants and their offspring has mobilized outspoken moral positions over the last 20 years in Europe and the United States. These positions have translated into increasing...
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Negli ultimi anni, soprattutto a partire dal 2001, nelle politiche migratorie sono prevalsi orientamenti restrittivi. Questi hanno investito anche il livello locale, soprattutto in Italia. Alle politiche di esclusione si sono opposti soprattutto diversi attori della societa civile, sia a livello politico, sia come fornitori di servizi alternativi....
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All across European receiving societies, the mainstream political discourse is displaying increasing disaffection with multiculturalism. It is primarily at the level of local policies, though, that the social inclusion of immigrants and the governance of ethno-cultural diversity are negotiated. Building on a comparative study of the urban ‘adaptati...
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This chapter focuses on the perspective of employers within what I call an “invisible welfare”: a system of assistance parallel to the official welfare system, managed by families and based on the work carried out by migrants. The corresponding evolution of the role of traditional care providers (previously the women of the family) is of the foremo...
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Il diritto alla salute degli immigrati in condizione irregolare è un problema controverso, giacché lo status legale e i diritti umani entrano in tensione tra loro. Inoltre le politiche ufficiali nei confronti dell’immigrazione irregolare si sono ovunque indurite, ma non riescono a impedire agli immigrati irregolari di rimanere sul territorio. In qu...
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Parenting from a distance and processes of family reunification: A research on the Italian case Maurizio Ambrosini Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milano, Italy Abstract A new trend has emerged over the recent years in the relationship between immigra- tion and family structures, especially in Italy and Southern...
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The idea of the active role of migrants in supporting the socio-economic development of their homeland is the subject of growing interest in academic and institutional debates. This expectancy can be framed theoretically in the notion of transnationalism, where the migrant is seen as an actor placed simultaneously in two or more social fields: thos...

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L’ITALIA AL FUTURO. PERCORSI DI CITTADINANZA TRA CONQUISTE, OSTACOLI E CHIUSURE La Scuola Estiva di Sociologia delle Migrazioni è rivolta a giovani ricercatori, dottori e dottorandi di ricerca, operatori di enti pubblici, di sindacati, di associazioni no profit e, in generale, a tutti coloro che abbiano interessi specifici nel settore delle migrazioni. Il Direttore scientifico della Scuola è Maurizio Ambrosini. Al termine della Scuola verrà rilasciato un attestato di partecipazione. Per informazioni ed iscrizioni andare al sito www. csmedi.com (Chiusura iscrizioni 31 Maggio)
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La Scuola Estiva di Sociologia delle Migrazioni riparte, dopo un anno di pausa dovuta alla situazione sanitaria; per avere maggiore tranquillità sulla gestione del programma abbiamo pensato di spostare di un paio di mesi la realizzazione rispetto all'usuale periodo. La proposta è rivolta a giovani ricercatori, dottori e dottorandi di ricerca, operatori di enti pubblici, di sindacati, di associazioni no profit e, in generale, a tutti coloro che abbiano interessi specifici nel settore delle migrazioni. Durante lo svolgimento della Scuola verranno dati spazi di discussione e confronto tra i partecipanti. Il Direttore scientifico della Scuola è Maurizio Ambrosini, docente di sociologia dei processi migratori nell’Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche. Al termine della Scuola verrà rilasciato un attestato di partecipazione. Per informazioni ed iscrizioni andare al sito www. csmedi.com (Chiusura iscrizioni 20 giugno)