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Family Issues. Difficulties in Migrant Family Life Exacerbated by the Pandemic.
2022
Most of the time, when we talk about the family, we think of the indigenous family, but what happens when the focus shifts to foreign families? Furthermore, in a time of pandemic, what repercussions and impacts have there been on foreign families? And have the interventions proposed by the government to deal with COVID-19 and to support families, taken foreign families into account? The issue is quite complex because it has to deal, on the one hand, with definitional problems related to the difficulties in identifying types of foreign families (Ambrosini, 2020b) present in Italy, and, on the other hand, with an analysis of the impact that the virus has had on family structures. Migrant fami…
An Approach for the Validation of a Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index: An Application in Sicily
2022
In recent decades, coastal erosion phenomena have increased due to climate change. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme events and the poor sediment supply by anthropized river basins (dams, river weirs, culverts, etc.) have a crucial role in coastal erosion. Therefore, an integrated analysis of coastal erosion is crucial to produce detailed and accurate coastal erosion vulnerability information to support mitigation strategies. This research aimed to assess the erosion vulnerability of the Sicilian coast, also including a validation procedure of the obtained scenario. The coastal vulnerability was computed by means of the CeVI (Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index) approach, whi…
Schiavitù, servitù e sfruttamento lavorativo
2022
La pronuncia in commento individua il limite discretivo tra gli artt. 600 e 603-bis c.p. nella mancanza di alternative esistenziali, quale contenuto della situazione di vulnerabilità richiesta dalla fattispecie di riduzione o mantenimento in schiavitù o servitù ex art. 600 c.p. L’art. 603-bis c.p. configurerebbe, invece, un’area nella quale la condotta del datore di lavoro non determina una compressione altrettanto rilevante della libertà di autodeterminazione del lavoratore, ma che, allo stesso tempo, non possa neppure essere liquidata come una violazione meramente formale della normativa giuslavoristica.
An assessment of energy vulnerability in Small Island Developing States
2020
Abstract Small Island Developing States (SIDS) suffer from several structural characteristics that jeopardize their ability to achieve a sustainable energy future. Their reliance on imported fossil fuels exacerbates their exposure to external threats on international energy markets. Their energy systems are also exposed to internal disturbances that disrupt the proper production, transmission and distribution of energy. The aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which island energy systems are vulnerable to shocks and internal dysfunctions over which they have no control. For this purpose, we build a composite index of energy vulnerability using the Multi-Layer Benefit-of-the-Dou…
Asistencia sociosanitaria de emergencia a personas mayores en situación de riesgo. A propósito de un caso
2016
La emergencia social supone una situación que favorece procesos de vulnerabilidad social y de riesgo social, manifestando estados ocultos de precariedad y marginación. Las situaciones de emergencia social son situaciones sobrevenidas, afectan a necesidades básicas y requieren inmediatez de respuestas, por lo que es necesario contar con profesionales de las emergencias sanitarias extrahospitalarias para su detección durante su trabajo, además de profesionales de Trabajo Social con actitudes y aptitudes en emergencias, junto a un Sistema de Servicios Sociales y de protección social que respalde su intervención. La emergencia social supone una situación que favorece procesos de vulnerabilidad …
Socio-Demographic Vulnerability: The Condition of Italian Young People
2009
For a kind of inertia effect, today the Italian welfare state protects the older too much and, on the contrary, it does not counter sufficiently the new risks associated with other phases of life. Not much seems to be implemented in favour of Italian young people who, as a matter of fact, seem to suffer a lot from the present changes: young people remain longer in the parental home and postpone setting up their own independent life to a most advanced age. In order to understand the situation of vulnerability increasingly widespread among young people, it seemed more and more necessary an in-depth analysis of the reasons and the subjective status of the discomfort that affects young people b…
Narrating ambivalence of maternal responsibility
2007
Early motherhood and caring for the infant involve a moral ambiguity that is related to the questions of responsibility and vulnerability. By means of the ethics of care, motherhood can be understood as belonging to the moral domain, as relational, and as linked with everyday social situations. The culturally dominant narratives of ‘good mothering’ easily naturalise and normatise maternal agency. This study illustrates the process of adopting responsibility for the infant and the moral ambivalence that is inscribed in early maternal care. The data consist of four interview sessions with each of seven first-time mothers conducted during pregnancy and the first post-natal year. The interview…
Smartness, Sustainability and Resilience: Are They Related?
2019
In the imminent future, cities have to face not only an increasing urbanization but also the negative consequences of natural and human disasters. From this point of view, a city should be considered as vulnerable to climate change and other natural negative events. Thus, the challenge of a city consists in remaining on a sustainable development path. To reach this object the concepts of smartness, sustainability and resilience for a city should be intertwined. Starting from the analysis of a bright city as an integrated approach, the aim of this study consists in propose a first framework of an index which should include sustainable, smartness and resilient indicators. Integrating and meas…
MAXQDA and its application to Social Sciences: a comparative case study on urban vulnerability
2022
Introducción. En el ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales cada vez es más frecuente el empleo de programas informáticos en el análisis de datos cuantitativos y cualitativos. El presente artículo tiene por objeto presentar la aplicación del software MAXQDA a partir de un estudio de caso comparado sobre vulnerabilidad urbana en el Sur (Guatemala) y en el Norte (España). Para ello, se presenta una revisión teórica internacional sobre la aplicación de plataformas ofimáticas bajo la denominación de CAQDAS, cuyo surgimiento y aplicación ha supuesto en el ámbito de la investigación social nuevos métodos de análisis cualitativos y mixtos. Dentro de dicha denominación, MAXQDA se presenta como una platafor…
Migrazioni forzate e diritti disattesi. Lo sguardo di genere sui bisogni di frontiera
2021
La definizione di “tratta di esseri umani”, adottata dal Protocollo delle Nazioni Unite, descrive gli elementi che identificano un fenomeno rilevato su scala mondiale che occupa i primissimi posti delle classifiche relative ai crimini internazionali per la diffusione e la numerosità di casi. Esso prevede l’induzione forzata a varie forme di sfruttamento e, fra queste, un posto di rilievo occupa quello relativo allo sfruttamento a scopo prostitutivo. Malgrado accordi europei e leggi nazionali convergano sul piano giuridico, allo stato attuale, la condizione di “vittima di tratta” fatica ad essere riconosciuta come tale da un sistema di protezione e accoglienza che in Europa evidenzia procedu…