RISULTATI RICERCA

Il presente contributo affronta da una prospettiva storico-sociologia il rapporto tra religione islamica e cultura hip hop. Se negli USA osserviamo un rapporto molto esplicito e con una chiara impostazione militante, grazie anche alla presenza di organizzazioni islamiche come la Nation of Islam e la Five Percenter, questo legame in Europa a un primo sguardo appare meno marcato. Eppure, come vedremo, anche per gli artisti europei l’Islam non è un elemento secondario perché sembra diventare un catalizzatore d’identità in grado di unire soggetti marginalizzati che attraverso la musica riescono a farsi sentire e lanciare un messaggio. Partendo dalle sue origini in Giamaica, ripercorreremo la strada dell’hip hop e del suo incon-tro con l’Islam nelle strade del Bronx e, passando dalla Francia, arriveremo ad os-servare l’attuale scena rap italiana rappresentata in particolar modo da collettivi come la NPT e la Seven7oo.

il contributo intende indagare il portato e le necessità di nuclei familiari con un background di migrazione forzata, dalla composizione e dalle caratteristiche diverse, accolti in due progetti di accoglienza a L’Aquila, in Abruzzo, nonché alcune delle peculiarità del lavoro di accoglienza degli stessi. Attraverso la testimonianza di 6 famiglie, 3 accolte nel progetto SAI cittadino e 3 accolte in un Centro di Accoglienza Straordinario, si vogliono mettere in relazione i bisogni delle famiglie (mate-riali, educativi, formativi, sociali e culturali) con il tempo di permanenza in accoglienza e con le azioni intraprese verso l’autonomia degli individui e dei gruppi familiari, tappe di un percorso volto all’inclusione sociale e culturale degli stessi. Si metteranno perciò in evidenza, in conclusione, alcune pratiche e risorse che i progetti coinvolti nella ricerca adottano nel lavoro di tutti i giorni.

Despite its importance in light of current migration trends, research on the relation-ship between immigration and innovation has only recently caught attention. Most of it has been limited to the United States and the European Union, with some developing studies also coming from Australia. Hence, this study aims to investigate this relationship by considering the factors influencing immigrants' contributions to destination countries on a broader scale. Notably, cultural diversity, demographic agglomeration forces and newcomers’ educational backgrounds emerge as innovation drivers that affect patenting activity. Through a systematic literature review, this study contributes to the identification of policy implications for enhancing innovation through immigrant contribu-tions to host countries’ development and economic growth.

L’obiettivo del presente articolo è contribuire alla riflessione relativa al concetto di “segregazione abitativa” nel contesto del Sud Europa analizzandone le caratteri-stiche e, a partire da un caso studio nella città di Roma, verificandone l’utilizzabilità e le specificità. Nonostante le “classiche” forme di segregazione non siano spesso riscontrabili nel contesto sudeuropeo e italiano, non si possono non testimoniare molteplici espressioni nello spazio urbano di forme di segregazione abitativa socio-spaziale. Attraverso una prospettiva multiscalare e intersezionale, che tenga conto del discorso storico e coloniale della razza e dei suoi effetti mate-riali e simbolici, approfondirò il caso del Selam Palace, un’occupazione a scopo abitativo portata avanti da una comunità di migranti, cercando di fare emergere le peculiarità del caso empirico in riferimento al più ampio lavoro teorico.

This essay aims to foreground the perspectives and lived experiences of asylum-seekers, refugees and other migrants in the growing calls to abolish immigration detention. While focused on a singular case study - the Tamil maritime arrivals to Canada in 2009 and 2010, our findings shed light on the broader harms of immigration detention. We begin by briefly describing the breadth and scope of immi-gration detention and the legal framework that governs detention in Canada. The heart of the essay follows with a sampling of the narratives drawn from the case study - all of which highlight the incalculable harms produced by the carceral state. The essay concludes by underscoring the imperative for detention abolition as both an aspirational and practical goal.

Resettlement policies and practices are supposed to allow the most vulnerable per-sons to settle permanently in Germany. In the mixed-method research project In-clusiveRE, we used an integrative literature review, a telephone survey, and quali-tative in-depth interviews to examine the extent to which Germany provides inclu-sive pathways for resettled refugees with and without disabilities. Using an intersec-tional lens, we analysed how structural contexts and public discourses shape (in)equality processes and, consequently, the subjects’ self-positioning and coping strategies. Our article focuses on the results of the telephone survey. Knowledge about resettlement pathways in Germany is limited and almost exclu-sively provided by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. In our study, 51 people who resettled in Germany gave feedback on their experiences of the first few months in their new communities. The interviewees faced considerable diffi-culties and barriers: family ties with relatives already living in Germany are consid-ered in 43% of the cases; access to language-appropriate support services is poor, with 12% of participants reporting no access to any kind of support; and in some instances, bureaucratic barriers limit rapid access to residence permits and social benefits. Due to the absence of inclusive structures in the communities, resettled families have to rely on their individual resources and skills. Hence, based on the survey results, we suggested more rights- and needs-based arrival conditions in Germany that will enable resettled refugees with diverse abilities to settle and par-ticipate in their new residence.

This article explores the mechanisms of the French humanitarian corridors in Lebanon, examining the stages of evaluation and selection of candidates for this program. The author develops a network approach by presenting the interrelation-ships between the signatory associations of the HC and the French authorities. With the development of legal channels at European level, the author presents the context in which these HC were created. The concept of vulnerability, used in the assessment of candidates for the corridors, is then examined and explained at the various stages of selection, based on a fieldwork in Lebanon. The vulnerability evaluation carried out by the associations and then by the French authorities tends to legitimize the delivery of a form of asylum from afar, outside the borders of the European Union.

The article aims to shed light on everyday bottom-up practices of local solidarity groups in a predominantly exclusionary and nativist context. Considered as one of the most hostile settings in the Italian peninsula, with an elevated presence of far-right and populist right actors, the city of Verona offers an interesting case as con-comitantly the capital of migration of the Veneto region. Against the elevated presence of an ethnonationalist outlook to urban membership, a local network of grassroots actors challenges exclusionary practices in solidarity with newcomers from various legal statuses and backgrounds. These grassroots actors sharing the memory of collective struggles collaborate to overcome both social hostility and limitations of the institutional reception system in their own hometown. Premised on 3 years of fieldwork, the analysis draws from personal testimonies alongside visual narratives and archival research in offering a multidimensional historical investigation of everyday solidarities in an unlikely setting.

This article highlights features of Canada’s private sponsorship program and ex-plains its consequences and performance. It explores which actors were involved in the private sponsorship, how domestic circumstances stimulated the application of the program, and it discusses its intended and unintended consequences. The author examines the profile of the Syrian refugees and discusses how personal characteristics may affect integration trajectories. Private sponsorship is consid-ered more effective than government-assisted sponsorship as it ensures a smooth-er, faster, and long-term integration of refugees. However, the author argues that personal profiles could play a critical role in integration process, and therefore, measuring the program’s performance by only comparing it with a government-assisted program could be challenging.