Search results for "IMMIGRATION"
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The ideal restructuring of migrant families in the immigration law
2013
The legal configuration of kinship ties in immigration law is governed by a restrictive logic that combines a dependent and nuclear composition with mismatches in the concrete form of managing the distances, the dynamics and the times at origin and destination. The family model in immigration law has an ideal and dominant approach openly excluding other family realities in the social context. Law in an inherent tendency towards the ideal doesn’t allow a legitimate choice between autonomy and individual freedom in order to define or not the family project and own relationships. In this paper I discuss from a critical approach the inconsistencies presented by the current Spanish immigration l…
Vote choices of left-authoritarians: Misperceived congruence and issue salience
2021
Abstract Often lacking parties with a corresponding profile, citizens with economically left and culturally authoritarian, or nationalist, policy orientations face a trade-off between congruence on economic and on cultural issues. How such left-authoritarian voters resolve this trade-off depends on which issues are more salient to them, previous research argues. We extend this line of research by considering the role of (mis-)perceived party positions. Using a survey in the context of the 2017 German election, we show how perceived congruence and issue importance interactively shape the left-authoritarian vote. Our findings indicate that many left-authoritarians vote for a party simply beca…
How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017
2019
Abstract Until 2017, Germany was an exception to the success of radical right parties in postwar Europe. We provide new evidence for the transformation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to a radical right party drawing upon social media data. Further, we demonstrate that the AfD's electorate now matches the radical right template of other countries and that its trajectory mirrors the ideological shift of the party. Using data from the 2013 to 2017 series of German Longitudinal Elections Study (GLES) tracking polls, we employ multilevel modelling to test our argument on support for the AfD. We find the AfD's support now resembles the image of European radical right voters. Specifically, g…
'Love comes first, and it is ahead of any different political partisanism': How political polarizations compare to other forms of discrimination in B…
2021
Background: Affective polarization and stigma toward individuals with schizophrenia and toward immigrants in Argentina are not new despite its importance and dissemination. However, no research has been conducted taking into consideration political partisanship and attitudes toward these groups. Aims: Political polarization and attitudes toward socialization across party lines are studied in conjunction with attitudes toward immigrants and toward individuals with schizophrenia. Method: Individuals from Buenos Aires ( n = 712) were surveyed for their political partisanship and their attitudes toward Peruvian and Bolivian immigrants, people with schizophrenia and partisans from the opposing p…
Multi-professional work practices in the field of immigrant integration – examples of collaboration between the police and social work
2017
Development of the professional competences and work practices are required when promoting successful immigrant integration in a constantly diversifying society. One work method applied in this field is multi-professional collaboration. Cooperation between the authorities at the local level reduces the overlap between services and brings together expertise and resources, resulting in not only added value but also more proactive and less costly service. Thus, collaboration can involve actors from various sectors, like NGOs or ethnic minority communities. In this article examples of collaboration in two different multi-ethnic contexts are introduced: first, in school and second, in a suburb.…
THE DARK SIDE OF THE LAWS AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE NEED FOR A NEW, NOT EXCLUSIVELY LEGAL, APPROACH AND THE “ITALIAN WAY” IN A GLOBAL WORLD PERS…
2012
il lavoro riguarda l'analisi delle politiche in materia di immigrazione e le risposte in chiave nazionale e sovranazionale
Family reunification: the case of the Muslim migrant children in Europe
2013
Adopting a child is not a legal concept recognized in Islamic law, who however giving a great importance to orphans and children's rights, has introduced the legal institute of the "Kafala". This institute can be defined as a commitment by the "kafil" to ensure maintenance, education and protection of a minor "makfoul" until his legal majority, in the same way as would a father to his son, but without creating any family relationship. For these reasons the “Kafala” can not be compared to an international adoption, which, contrariwise, entails the creation of a parent-child relationship. If, in one side the Kafala is a legal concept recognized by International Law, in particular by the Unite…
Five Years of the Citizens Directive in the UK - Part 2
2011
This two-part article reviews how the UK authorities have fared in the practical application of Directive 2004/38/EC in the five years since it entered into force. It identifies and examines the most common problems faced by EU citizens when seeking to have their rights recognised by the UK authorities applying the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 by reference to questions and complaints received by Your Europe Advice. In examining the experience of EU citizens and their family members living in the UK, account is taken of a number of recent judgments of the European Court of Justice concerning EU citizenship, including Metock, Lassal, Eman & Sevinger and Ruiz Zambrano.…
La crimmigration e l'espulsione dello straniero-massa
2017
The article primarily aims at offering a theoretical reconstruction of the fundamen- tal characteristics of the so-called crimmigration strategy, as it appears in Italian law. The author’s main thesis is that what differentiates this strategy from the ways in which Italy has traditionally dealt with undesired foreigners is not so much the instruments that are deployed, but the way in which the foreigner him/herself is conceived: not as an individual, but as a “mass-foreigner”. The paper goes on to show how this new conception has affected the legal regulation of expulsions, as it has emerged, in Italy, during the last thirty years. Finally, the author tries to locate crimmigration within th…
Il diritto penale dell'immigrato: brevi spunti di riflessione sul diritto penale della paura
2013
Criminal law of immigration should be more conveniently defined “criminal law of the irregular immigrant”, centred, as it appears essentially focused on the criminalisation of mere subjective statuses, instead of behav- iours harming legal goods. In fact, behind the cover of an apparent balance of the need for protection of human rights and the interest to the control of mi- gration flows, the criminalisation system in this sector appears greatly unbal- anced towards the punishment of socially dangerous types of authors. This is, therefore, a model of criminal law very similar to the “enemy criminal law”. The ratio inspiring the regulations has not changed even after its adapta- tion, throu…