The present paper aims at underlining how Western countries help outline the debate on gender differences, through a perspective which, more often than not, shows a certain degree of ethnocentrism given its inability to take into consideration alternative models emerging in other contexts – particularly those with an Islamic tradition. This aspect has been highlighted by the results of a research on the problems posed by the asylum right recognition process to LGBTI foreigners in the host countries. It draws attention to the agreement to a Western gay lifestyle model far from simple and unquestioningly accepted by LGBTI migrants.

The paper focuses on the process of integration of migrants in the Rome area. The study, based on a quali-quantitative research, describe and provide guidance for a re-design of the integration system. The research shows as the actual system is in fact unplanned and focused only on the slope of first assistance. It does not seem adequate in providing assistance in integrating migrants to the city’s social system. Based on these indications, the research presents some operational proposals aimed at improving the efficiency and overall effectiveness of the services in place.

The research investigates the strategies and procedures for including immigrant women in screening protocols for breast cancer and prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases. After analysing health inequalities from a theoretical perspective, the article provides a comparative overview of the state of health of the two populations in question (Milan and Beirut), interpreting various indicators of health. It goes on to examine the data on prevention of female cancer and sexually-transmitted diseases in either country. The attention then shifts to the results of field work, after consideration of some methodological points, proceeding by analysis of focus group interviews conducted in Milan and Beirut.

One of the rationales of the free circulation of people within the European Union (EU) is the enabling of a larger and more efficient labour market, where workers can move according to economic reasons, regardless of political barriers. The recent economic crisis overcoming the EU that started in 2008 and was aggravated by the financial woes of the Southern countries has been a favourable context to migration changes. The main objective of this paper is to discuss how Portuguese emigrants have behaved during the crisis, revealing their main reasons for leaving, migration strategies, labour insertion, transnational links and future plans.

Reading the past and recent history of the Friuli Venezia Giulia border area leads us to consider this regional community as endemically and anthropologically peculiar. This in different ways: in the sense of being a community that has experienced the dramatic consequences of living at the border, which here has historically coincided with the bulwark of the West opposed to the collectivist system, opening the syndrome of the boundaries. Indeed, to have experienced in the past and currently to test out in its existential biography the richness and the complexity of different cultural references and communitarian destinies, configuring a context of multiple belongings. Thus, the border becomes bridge. The presence of historic, ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities socializes to a context characterized by a dynamic relationship between the belonging and the loyalty. The regional community gives shape to an original language, which is expressed like the ability to retain the idea of heterogeneity “as a universal condition”, and the idea of particularity as an “original multiplicity of the universal world”. Further to these experiences, more recently, the region is experiencing additional intense migration flows from various national and ethnical origins. Familiarity with the policies for the protection of minorities evidenced, in this way, the historical background of performing with practices, both at regional and municipal level, viable for supporting the integration of immigrants. The benefits of immigration tend to compensate the involved problems; the collective availability to the “give and take” in view of a general economic and social progress becomes the commitment of the entire regional community.

En el marco de los estudios de la migración altamente cualificada de América Latina, el presente artículo indaga por las subjetividades y relaciones que las/os médicas/os especialistas de Latinoamérica en España construyen con estos dos territorios. Esta investigación de carácter biográfico utiliza historias de vida como método cualitativo de producción de datos empíricos. Los principales resultados están relacionados con el estilo de vida cosmopolita, los sentidos de pertenencia, las identificaciones y rupturas, y las redes afectivas. Concluimos que en un sistema estructural de acumulación de capitales, las/os médicas/os especialistas latinoamericanas/os configuran subjetividades cosmopolitas, transnacionales y multiterritoriales que les posibilitan vivir una “doble presencia” tanto en Latinoamérica como España.

Le lien entre le statut social et le niveau de la santé-maladie est défini "gradient social". Cela signifie qu à chaque niveau d’une position sociale mesurée, ceux qui bénéficient des conditions les plus avantageuses présentent un meilleur profil de santé par rapport à ceux qui ont une position sociale défavorable. Les inégalités sociales de santé peuvent par conséquent être définies comme des «différences systématiques dans la santé entre les différents groupes socio-économiques au sein de la société» (Giarelli, Venneri 2009, p. 411). Cette étude porte sur létat de santé et sur le bien-être des immigrés en Italie et en Lombardie, en supposant que la santé est liée aux inégalités sociales, aux styles de vie et aux changements affectant la migration. Dun point de vue méthodologique, létude fait référence aux approches théoriques de la sociologie de la santé et de lanthropologie médicale; on a aussi observé les rapports et les sources secondaires de données au niveau national, avec quelques références au niveau international, et lon a élaboré et analysé les donnés de la survey conduite sur terrain en Région Lombardie.

Il riconoscimento dell’apprendimento non formale e informale è parte integrante dell’agenda politica dell’Unione Europea fin dal 2001. Questo articolo presenta i risultati di una ricerca-intervento su come l’Università può contribuire a promuovere il valore strategico dell’apprendimento maturato in contesti informali e non formali nella prospettiva dell’apprendimento lungo tutto l’arco della vita. In particolare, l’articolo riguarda l’esperienza del Centro per l’Apprendimento Permanente attivato dall’Università di Bari in Italia nell’ambito di un progetto finanziato dal Fondo Europeo per l’Integrazione (FEI) e rivolto ai cittadini immigrati. L’articolo evidenzia le ipotesi di lavoro, l’approccio e gli effetti dei servizi offerti dal CAP rispetto ai bisogni di orientamento e di riconoscimento delle competenze informali.

The aim of the contribute is the presentation of a “diversity” experience in a small italian local context, characterised by recent immigration’s flows. In particular, we explore how food – and food habits, recipes, etc. – could become “mean of integration”, improving knowledge, mutual understanding and discovering both differences and similarities among people. In order to overcome prejudices and to stimulate discussion, the study underlines the key-role of popular culture and the importance of realistic opportunities to meet “diversity”.

The aim of the contribute is the presentation of a “diversity” experience in a small italian local context, characterised by recent immigration’s flows. In particular, we explore how food – and food habits, recipes, etc. – could become “mean of integration”, improving knowledge, mutual understanding and discovering both differences and similarities among people. In order to overcome prejudices and to stimulate discussion, the study underlines the key-role of popular culture and the importance of realistic opportunities to meet “diversity”.