This article analyses the role of professional social workers in managing immigrant clients' needs Italy, against a background residual welfare provision, inconsistent policies and piecemeal integration. After framing main challenges migration poses to Italian system, with particular regard services, we highlight centrality practitioners' commitment discretionary power addressing migrants' needs. On one hand, increasing diversification client population is still relatively under-debated work...

This article explores the role of school staff in accessibility education with a focus on professional discretion and its relation institutions contexts. Drawing street-level bureaucracy approach it looks into different types discretionary practices asks how their legitimacy influences success. The analysis is based data exemplary trajectories are used as illustration. Results show that can be to both increase reduce accessibility: proactivity elicited when societal goals shared, but means...

The rise of migrant entrepreneurship — small business activities carried out by migrants in their destination countries has been the subject a large body academic research. Over years, mixed embeddedness model gained increased attention, and it used to study entrepreneurship. After almost twenty years (1999-2018), this paper examines approach underlines contribution that provided field. Furthermore, we identify three main streams research which applied can be further developed connection...

Social work in Europe is facing numerous challenges terms of promoting the participation migrants and their descendants super-diverse societies. This study investigates collaboration between social workers intercultural mediators based on international debate fieldwork Italy. Does require with other professions specialised relations? What are characteristics professionals? pros cons mediators? shows that local services need to mediators, allowing implement various strategies for tackling...

This article analyses how policies to foster social cohesion within diverse and unequal urban contexts are affected by New Public Management austerity policies. Based on the analysis of a handful governance arrangements in three cities that differ their institutional structure diversity policy approaches (Copenhagen, Leipzig Milan), it is shown negative effects quite widespread yet cushioned strong welfare state structure, solid local government high priority given recognition diversity....

This article is aimed to analyse processes of school segregation in four Italian metropolitan areas (Milan, Bologna, Rome, Naples), considering their linkages with the transformation settlement trends and national local immigration policies.In this respect, rescaling imply an increased scope for uncoordinated action, affecting – among other issues how migrants settle meet relevant institutions, including schools.After introducing different hub role international Italy, will be analysed as...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Additional informationAUTHOR BIOSDr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is professor of comparative and international education at the University Muenster, Germany. His research interests are policy educational governance as well a range issues in such convergence divergence policies around globe.Dr. Barbara Stauber social pedagogy Tübingen, She has been co-coordinator partner several projects European Group for Integrated Social Research (EGRIS). Her...

This article investigates the interconnectedness between neighbourhood diversity and local business structures. For this purpose, interviews with residents entrepreneurs were conducted in three European cities: Budapest, Copenhagen, Milan. The results show that economic structure of urban neighbourhoods is equally important regards to residents’ quality life, image neighbourhood, social cohesion. Therefore, main recommendation policy makers should act preserve structures, concept itself be...

Nel quadro dell’imprenditoria immigrata, il caso cinese rappresenta – per numeri assoluti, tassi di imprenditorialita, e attenzione scientifica uno dei fenomeni piu significativi nel mondo in Italia. Al 2009, sono ca. 35.000 gli imprenditori cinesi Italia (Unioncamere, 2010), mentre i residenti 190.000: un tasso grezzo imprendito-rialita, dunque, pari al 18%

Le misure intraprese dal governo italiano per il contenimento della prima ondata Covid-19 hanno avuto importanti ricadute sul mondo scuola. Il diffuso ricorso alla didattica a distanza (DAD), pur avendo permesso un certo grado di continuità in una situazione emergenziale, è stato accompagnato da numerose criticità che si sono innestate sulle condizioni vulnerabilità preesistenti. Considerando le disuguaglianze territoriali caratterizzano contesto...

This article is aimed to analyse the relationship between diversity, entrepreneurship and embeddedness. Diversity considered in terms of a variety features enterprise, entrepreneur, and local context where business operates. Socio-economic embeddedness its mixed territorial dimensions. Local neighbourhood diversity do intersect producing specific  configurations, so that enterprise may both benefit from contribute or just exploit it with no attention reproduction. hypothesis tested...

The article analyses the discourses, strategies and daily practices about diversity in Milan, Italy, framing them at different scales: (a) national model of integration; (b) city-level debate policy framework diversity; (c) neighbourhood-level initiatives addressing (directly or indirectly) (d) representations narratives among residents two neighbourhoods city. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2013 2015 with 33 interviews key officials policymakers 52 inhabitants this work...

This article aims to analyse the European pig sector and its transformations (e.g. vertical integration phase specialization).In particular, we will both explore specialization territorial concentration of production, significant changes which have taken place in trade among Union countries. Using network analysis (betweenness centrality, node strength community detection) applied Eurostat fao datasets on production period 2000-2016, show emergence national players international connections...