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Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
2016
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the US in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both restrictive and liberalising changes, the political stream impedes change: The fact that Congress has been divided for a long time over Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) impedes any restrictive or liberalising changes. With problems resulting from c…
Los menores extranjeros no acompañados en Italia: puntos críticos en la integración entre políticas nacionales y intervenciones locales
2018
Unaccompanied foreign minors (or UAM) constitute a specific subgroup, in terms of characteristics and legal conditions, of users of social services. The increase of their presence, beyond representing the obvious sign of a transformation of Italy into a country of immigration (at least from a "numerical" point of view), demands a global reflection and reorganization of the Welfare Systems. In response, in recent years Italy has implemented a reception system, developing at the same time a specific regulation on the protection of unaccompanied minors, which resembles its situation to that of other protected minors in the national territory. In past years, the services present in the territor…
Vulnerability in Migration: The Applicability of European Recommendations, International Reports and Guidelines to the Italian System of Reception an…
2018
The European Parliament’s Report focuses on the integration processes for a particular category of refugees, considered as belonging to “vulnerable groups”, namely women seeking international protection and female refugees. Women seeking international protection or refugees, in fact, are bearers of demands and needs which, in part, are specific to all those people who, often forced to abruptly abandon their countries of origin, seek protection in host countries, bringing with themselves a heavy burden of persecution, war, violence and poverty. The humanitarian response along the routes of the eastern Mediterranean and the western Balkans has set as a priority the introduction of measures to…
Social Work with Refugees and Migrants in Italy
2021
Social Work in Italy has been tackling the internal migration phenomenon since the post-WW II period, when more than 1,300,000 Italian citizens from poor southern regions, where employment was scarce, moved to the center and to the industrialized north of Italy (Simone 2016). Since then, and as early as the late 1980s, social workers have had to deal with flows of migrants and refugees from other countries. Faced with the growing commitment of Social Work to the field of migration, the professional community has been called to reassess both the training of social workers and the updating of methodology and functions, especially with regard to the adaptation of professional work and ser- vic…
Politiche migratorie nell’ambito del partenariato UE-Tunisia. Cooperazione allo sviluppo, principio di solidarietà e aspettative tradite
2022
La crisi migratoria ha manifestato le debolezze di Dublino III e la fallacia della solidarietà europea, quale principio alla base del Sistema Comune Europeo di Asilo. Di conseguenza, le istituzioni europee si sono concentrate maggiormente sulla ‘dimensione esterna’ dell'UE, attraverso accordi che esternalizzino il controllo migratorio verso Paesi terzi, impedendo ai migranti irregolari di raggiungere i confini europei. Il contributo analizza gli effetti di questa cooperazione: la creazione di una pre-frontiera in un Paese, come la Tunisia, dove vengono impiegate pratiche illegali. In particolare, la prima parte del contributo esamina i rapporti tra Ue e Tunisia, storicamente ‘paese di trans…
Hotspot System in Italy: Politics of Refusal against the Economic Migrants and their Effects
2018
The purpose of this paper is to describe the aporias in the institutional discourse regarding the strategies of reception-refoulement of asylum seekers in Italy. First, it will analyze the evolution of the institutional discourse on security in recent years through a reflection on some aspects of the Schengen Treaty and the Dublin Convention of 1985 (Dublion I, II and III) and “Regimes of Mobility” (Glick Schiller & Salazar, 2013). Secondly, we will try to show that economic migrants, who are rejects according to “Hotspot system” and now to the decree “Minniti”, are often found them in severe distress conditions and in absolute inability to return to their countries. Refugees that circumven…
Il dovere di proteggere e il principio di non-refoulement. Storia e confinamenti di una legge ancestrale
2019
Il contributo ripercorre la storia dell'asilo ritrovandone le radici nella legge ancestrale dell'ospitalità e nell'antico dovere di proteggere positivizzato, nell'età dei diritti, nel principio di non refoulement affermato dal diritto internazionale dei rifugiati. L'effettività di questo principio viene quindi posta in questione alla luce delle politiche migratorie contemporanee di chiusura dei confini, guardando a come esse si attuano oggi nel contesto del Mediterraneo centrale dove si assiste a un paradossale rovesciamento di ruoli tra chi viola e chi rispetta ancora il dovere di proteggere.
Do Return Migration Policies Matter? A typology of young Romanian returnees’ attitudes towards return policies
2018
Abstract During the last decades, the interest in migration policies has increased, both at institutional level and in academia. However, if the scientific understanding of policies associated with migration at destination has tremendously advanced, our knowledge about origin countries interventions in migration stays limited. Our paper addresses one of the largely unexplored topic of this area: if and what kind of policies supporting return/returnees the returnees themselves find appropriate. The analysis is based on 120 interviews with Romanian returnees, aged 18 to 39, coming back after at least 6 months of working or studying abroad in different EU countries. The article reveals that ev…
Public Services and Migrant Minors in Italy. Redefining skill for social work.
2015
The increased presence of foreign minors in Italy demands the country to rethink and undertake a general reorganization of public social services, still responding more to emergency situations rather than promoting preventive interventions. The analysis of laws and policies on migrant integration shows how the increasing presence of migrant families with minors requires, first of all, a change in the legislative system. Moreover, the urgency for a significant investment in the training of social workers is felt, in particular on the methodologies used and the intercultural competencies required for the analyses of needs and the planning of interventions. In brief, a reorganization of welfar…