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Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics of Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective
(2017)
In this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, women refugees are experiencing extreme vulnerability and violence, both during their journey and in the camps. Our objectives through this article are to analyze how women are ...
Controlling irregular immigration at the European Union’s southern maritime border. An emerging system driven by “migration emergencies"
(2017)
Over the last 25 years the southern maritime border of the European Union witnessed the interaction of considerable and increasingly complex irregular migration flows in the Mediterranean with the progressive construction ...
Past and Current Realities about Mexican/Latino Immigration. Looking Beyond the U.S.
(2017)
The literature including social media shows that Mexican/Latino immigrants have attracted contempt and have been traditionally objected to as a minority in the U.S. The intent here is to search for historical and other ...
Social Europe as a Multilevel Governance: The Italian Perspective
(2016)
The article deals with history and historiography of Social Europe, understood as integra-tion of social forces (mainly the trade-unions) of the different European countries. The communitarian dimension of trade-unionism, ...
Crossing Linguistic Borders: Translating Democracy in the 2012 Egyptian Constitution
(2016)
The transfer of political concepts into different places and cultures happens first and foremost through translation. Far from being a simple transposition of meaning into a different language to facilitate border crossing, ...
A grounded theory for unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy: the case study of Egyptian minors
(2017)
The article suggests to share a research first emerging categories according to methodological universe of the "Grounded Theory" based on a mental construction / orientation process. The main target is to investigate in ...
Use and Abuse of History and Memory: the Istrian-Dalmatian Exodus and the Current Refugee Flows
(2017)
After the World War II, about 300.000 Italian people abandoned Istria and Dalmatia, which were annexed by Yugoslavia, and moved to Italy. The exodus is tied to the atrocities committed by the Slavic forces, the so called ...
The Kurdish diasporic mobilization in France: From a restricted political national frame to a translocal sphere of contention? The case of Kurds in Marseille, France
(2017)
Based on a sociological case study on Kurdish mobilization in Marseille, France; this article aims to expose the intricate dynamics that affect the transformation of mobilization forms and strategies in diaspora. By ...
Algeria post Arab Spring: The Forced Virtualisation of the Borders
(2016)
Algeria is the core of the Maghreb and shares land borders with seven countries Maghreb and Sahel countries. However, since 2011, none of the seven land borders is stable and se-cure. So, even if Algeria is considered as ...