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Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market

2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to characterise the position of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market and to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on that position.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on the biographical work stories of 17 highly educated African migrant workers in four occupation areas in Finland: healthcare, cleaning, restaurant and transport. The sample was partly purposively and partly theoretically determined. The authors used content driven thematic analysis technique, combined with by the biographical narrative concept of turning points.FindingsUsing the case of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market, …

The vulnerability to exploitation of women migrant workers in agriculture in the EU: The need for a human rights and gender based approach

2018

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, explores the working conditions of migrant women in agriculture in the EU, focusing on some case studies in Italy and Spain. In particular, it aims to examine the factors that render women vulnerable to exploitation, paying attention to gendered dynamics and power relations. The study contends that to prevent and combat exploitation in agriculture it is necessary to implement concerted actions aimed at tackling, from a human rights and gender perspective, the structural factors of a socio-economic syste…

Jóvenes migrantes al habla: trayectorias educativas y vidas con género

2018

El artículo muestra la tensión biográfica y el proceso educativo de dos jóvenes menores que viajaron de África a Europa a través de construcciones biográficas marcadas por el paso de sociedad de origen a sociedad de destino. El relato y la representación gráfica de la trayectoria vivida aportan elementos de reflexión sobre el encauzamiento del alumnado de incorporación tardía en nuestra sociedad. Ambas biografías se extraen de una investigación que tiene por objeto conocer qué hace posible la progresión educativa exitosa del alumnado de incorporación tardía que vive en contextos vulnerables. A través de trayectorias encauzadas por el género y una clase social de origen media, Badra y Dakar …

Early Representations of Organized Crime and Issues of Identity in the Italian American Press (1890 to 1910)

2016

Beginning from the early days of mass immigration (1890s), Italian immigrants were increasingly depicted in association with crime, especially organized crime, in the mainstream press. Fuelled by nativist views of immigrants as a threat to American safety, character, and morality, these first images of the newcomers became increasingly popular as the new century progressed, crystallizing in the minds of Americans and becoming the predominant representations of Italian immigrants. The response of the newly formed Italian communities can be found in the Italian-American press, which took upon itself the task of providing alternative images with which the burgeoning Italian community could ide…

""Don't be sad...You will get smart in America,' Context and Startegies of Resistance in Rosa: the Life of an Italian Immigrant as-told-to Marie Hall…

2007

[Cardiovascular health in Asian immigrants to Italy: risk factors, pathogenesis and pharmacological treatment].

2021

In the last decades a significant increase of the migratory phenomenon from South Asian countries to the western world has occurred due to several factors, such as economic crisis, political instabilities, persecutions and wars. It is well established that South Asians (SA) have a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and premature onset of myocardial infarction episodes than other populations. This higher predisposition might be caused by genetic factors, common in both SA residing in their birth country and in those residing abroad, but it may also be due to the new spatial environment in which they live. We have found a higher prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk fa…

Características del Tejido Asociativo Inmigrante en España, a partir de: Argelia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Marruecos, Mali, Rumania y Senegal.

2018

Espana se ha ido transformando por el intercambio producto de movimientos migratorios, pero desde el ano 2000 el dinamismo economico positivo mostrado por el pais y la necesidad de incorporar personal en puestos de trabajo lo convierten en el principal responsable del crecimiento demografico de la poblacion inmigrante y sus familias. La llegada de inmigrantes al pais durante la bonanza activo la creacion de asociacionismo inmigrante, fue asi como nacen varias asociaciones intentando facilitar la vida de sus colectivos. Sin embargo, a partir del 2008 comienza la crisis economica, cambiando la figura de la migracion, frenando la inmigracion, disminuyendo las llegadas de nuevos inmigrantes y a…

Aspirations des familles et parcours scolaires des enfants issus de l'immigration : des différences sexuées ?

2006

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The effect of birthplace on heat tolerance and mortality in Milan, Italy, 1980-1989

2006

The temperature–mortality relationship follows a well-known J-V shaped pattern with mortality excesses recorded at cold and hot temperatures, and minimum at some optimal value, referred as Minimum Mortality Temperature (MMT). As the MMT, which is used to measure the population heat-tolerance, is higher for people living in warmer places, it has been argued that populations will adapt to temperature changes. We tested this notion by taking advantage of a huge migratory flow that occurred in Italy during the 1950s, when a large number of unemployed people moved from the southern to the industrializing north-western regions. We have analyzed mortality–temperature relationships in Milan residen…

An Urban Governance Framework for Including Environmental Migrants in Sustainable Cities

2022

This article proposes an urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. It outlines the links among environmental migration, vulnerability, and sustainability, showing how vulnerability and sustainability are not about the environment or the human condition as snapshots in space and time, but rather are long-term, multi-scalar, ever-evolving processes. This theoretical baseline is followed by a description of some practical approaches already applied for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. The wide variety and lack of cohesion justifies the need for a framework, leading to three principal characteristics of a governance framework s…