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The vulnerability of refugees: Some reflections on definitions and measurement practices
2021
The legal and policy discourse on refugees has been mainly focusing on the labelling of particularly vulnerable persons or groups, while it has neglected to offer reflections on the effects of definitions and assessment practices over the creation of stereotypes and of biases in the identification of beneficiaries of protection. The aim of this paper was to offer some reflections on the how categories of vulnerability defined by international and supranational law are operationalised and implemented in the practice of the vulnerability assessment inside the humanitarian organisations. Our analysis shows that the vagueness of the legal definitions affects the way in which humanitarian organi…
Magna Carta and the Charter of the European Union
2016
Peter Gjortler explains that the EU Charter was originally introduced as a non-binding re-statement of rights – already acknowledged or interpreted in the EU – with the Nice Treaty of 2001. It was supposed to be a binding document as part of the European Constitution but the latter was rejected notably by France via a referendum in 2005. It was then proposed as a legally binding instrument with the revised Lisbon Treaty. He develops a systematic comparative approach between Magna Carta and the provisions of the Charter of the European Union, notably:
Gender discrimination in physics and astronomy: Graduate student experiences of sexism and gender microaggressions
2016
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women’s underrepresentation in physics and astronomy. The issue of sexism in physics and astronomy has not been thoroughly explored in the physics education literature and there is currently no clear language for discussing sexism in the field. This article seeks to begin a conversation on sexism in physics and astronomy and offer a starting point for language to discuss sexism in research groups and departments. Interviews with 21 women in graduate physics and astronomy programs are analyzed for their individual experi…
Should conference pricing mechanisms incorporate options?
2016
The provision of many services is often characterized by demand uncertainty, as, at the time of purchase, consumers may not be completely informed about their valuation for the service or the possibility to utilize the service when it will actually be provided. For such reason, service providers implement several pricing mechanisms to maximize their profits in presence of consumer uncertainty and heterogeneity. A commonly adopted mechanism is intertemporal price discrimination, under which service providers charge different prices to consumers buying at different times. For instance, a lower price is usually offered to consumer buying early in advance, whereas higher price is practiced to l…
Bando di concorso: profili sostanziali e problemi di giurisdizione
2022
Il contributo fornisce una sintesi delle principali questioni che riguardano il bando di concorso nell’impiego pubblico privatizzato, mostrando attenzione alle clausole immediatamente lesive rappresentate dai requisiti discriminatori, in presenza dei quali si prospetta la possibilità di utilizzare lo strumento di tutela previsto dall’art. 28 del d.lgs. n. 150/2011, in alternativa al ricorso al giudice amministrativo. Con riguardo al riparto di giurisdizione vengono analizzati i principali nodi problematici in materia di progressioni verticali e di scorrimento delle graduatorie. The essay summarises most relevant issues on competition announcement in privatised public employment law, with a …
Lavoro e sicurezza sociale dei migranti economici: l'eguaglianza imperfetta
2021
Il saggio analizza i diritti dei migranti economici in Italia alla luce dei principi di eguaglianza e non discriminazione in chiave multilivello, in relazione ad accesso al lavoro, esecuzione del contratto e prestazioni di sicurezza sociale. Nella prospettiva dei diritti fondamentali del lavoratore il quadro normativo non è per nulla confortante: è estremamente difficile un ingresso regolare dei migranti sul territorio nazionale in virtù della legislazione di riferimento. Inoltre, sul versante dell’assistenza sociale il principio paritario soffre numerose eccezioni che di recente sono state avallate da un revirement del Giudice delle leggi nella sentenza 50/2019 in materia di assegno social…
aporie e distorsioni del femminismo radicale
2016
In this article, I will show that there are some fa llacies in the radical feminist thought, for exampl e in MacKinnon, Berg, Russel, Andrea Dworkin. I will foc us on different themes: violence against women, dif fusion of a patriarchal conception in the mass culture, po rnography, and the concept of free choice.
Acculturation profiles, psychosocial adaptation and perceived discrimination among Tunisian adolescents
2014
The study refers to data coming from the Italian section of MIRIPS project. It was focused on the analysis of the adaptation of Tunisian adolescents living in Italy and it was guided by the integration hypothesis, stating that migrants feel better if they are engaged in both their own culture and that of the larger society than if they engage in one or the other culture only. Using a person-oriented approach, the study investigated the relationships between acculturation profiles - namely patterns of relations between factors associated to the acculturation process (e.g., acculturation strategies, ethnic and national identities, ethnic and national language use, social contacts with people …
Mathematics and Music: a paradigmatic pair for basic learning
2012
The aim of the trial path described in this article is to highlight the possibility to develop intuition, analysis and synthesis abilities, which are typical of the logical - deductive mathematical thought, in primary school children (2nd class), through a significant approach to musical education, meant as systematic analysis of the sound parameters, which characterize and qualify its language. The Vygotskijan theoretical framework, which leads and interprets the didactic engineering proposed in class, emphasizes how the Mathematics - Music pair has promoted the changeover among different semiotic registers (Duval 2002), referred to Natural, iconographic, musical, geometric and pre - algeb…
A distributional approach for measuring wage discrimination and occupational discrimination separately
2011
Numerous statistical methodologies regarding the study of discrimination are based on the well-known Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition. This divides the wage differential between men and women into one part, which can be explained by differences in individual characteristics, and another part, which is interpreted as discrimination. This decomposition ignores any distributional issues in evaluating discrimination, thus permitting, undesirably, compensation between positively and negatively discriminated women. Jenkins (1994) has criticized this aspect, instead preferring a distributional approach. Del Rio et al. (2010), using a distributional approach, which hinges on the deprivational a…