This class is aimed to provide students with knoeledge on immigration trends at local level, and on related policies. Thus, the programme will focus on: immigration, economy and local development; national and local immigration policy models; immigration and welfare services.

In particular, attention will be paid to public debates on planning and managing immigrant policies, and implementation strategies enacted by different stakeholders (at EU, national, regional and local level; in public, profit and non-profit arenas); on the anti-racist social work and on tools like intercultural mediation.

Immigration, welfare and social policy
Immigrant policies and immigration policies
National models and immigration policy
The management of Italian immigration policy: history and sociology
The local dimension of immigration policy: policy networks and rescaling processes

In the second part of the lessons, according to students' interests, one or more of the following issues will be discussed:
- antiracist social work
- recent migrations and their reception
- intercultural mediation
- immigration and educational systems
- immigration and small towns

Knowledge and understanding: knwoledge of main theories on immigration policy; understaing of main literature on immigration policy. Such knowledge and understanding has to be achieved by studying suggested literature.

Applying knowledge and understanding: critical policy analysis; linking theory and empirical evidences - skills to be achieved with discussion on the relation between literature and recent events  

Skills: using knwoledge and understanding above to define research and practice on immigration policy. Skills to be achieved via simulations and discussions with social workers

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Seminars can be organized and agreed with students during the year. They will be related to theoretical or empirical issues, with external experts and/or by watching and debating videos.

Teaching

Frontal lesspons, with the support of ICT and audiovisuals.

During the lessons, supplementary materials will be given, that may partly substitute reference literature.

On a voluntary basis and according to available projects, students can be involved in fieldwork researches on:
- intercultural education;
- intercultural mediation;
- urban diversity policy;
- tools for the quantitative analysis of immigration policy
- discrimination practices and antidiscrimination policy

Attendance

Being present to minimum 75% of lesson hours. Studying reference literature: it is possible to arrange an individualized programme or to write a short essay substituting reference literature. The essay must be written in autonomy and studying a minimum of three books; a plagiarism checker will be used.

Course books

Students that will attend lessons regularly and do not ask for an individualized programme must study three books (one per area) chosen in the list below.

Area 1. The local dimension of immigration
One book among the following:
- E. Rossi, F. Biondi dal Monte, M. Vrenna, eds., La governance dell'immigrazione. Diritti, politiche e competenze, il Mulino, Bologna, 2013 (two chapters per section, for a maximum of 6 chapters)
- A. Agustoni, A. Alietti, eds., Territori e pratiche di convivenza interetnica, Angeli, Milano, 2015
- M. Omizzolo, P. Soldano, eds., Migranti e territori. Lavoro diritti accoglienza, Ediesse, Roma, 2015 (excluded: chapters 2, 14, 15)
- G. Zincone, R. Penninx, M. Borkert, eds., Migration Policymaking in Europe, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2011 (Introduction, Conclusions + 6 chapters; this volume can be downloaded for free here: www.oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=401760)

Area 2. Immigration, soio-economic participation, inequality and discrimination
One book among the following:
- Limes 6/2015 – “Chi bussa alla nostra porta”
- British Journal of Social Work, 44/suppl. 1)/2014 - Special Issue: ‘A World on the Move’: Migration, Mobilities and Social Work
- L. Dominelli. Anti-Racist Social Work. Palgrave, London, 2008.
- C. Saraceno, N. Sartor, G. Sciortino, eds., Stranieri e diseguali. Le diseguaglianze nei diritti e nelle condizioni di vita degli immigrati, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013 (6 chapters and the Introduction).
- M. Ambrosini, eds., Governare città plurali. Politiche locali di integrazione per gli immigrati in Europa, Angeli, Milano, 2012.

Area 3. I dispositivi di mediazione
One book among the following::  
- Rivista Mondi Migranti, 1/2012 (a digital version can be purchased on the publisher's website)
- L. Luatti, Mediatori atleti dell'incontro, Vannini, Gussago, 2011.
- C. Baraldi, V. Barbieri, G. Giarelli, eds., Immigrazione, mediazione culturale e salute, Angeli, Milano, 2008 (a digital version can be purchased on the publisher's website)

Assessment

Oral exam, with a discussion on reference literature and their relation with practices, experiences, recent events and debates

Students are particularly appreciated when:
- they study books in foreign languages
- they show to be able to connect different concepts, theories, researches
- they take part into research activities, and are able to connect knowledge and experience 

For those writing an essay, the exam will focus on its discussion. The essay must be around 15 pages long, and must imply the study and analysis of a minimum of three books (to be agreed with the professor). The essay must be delivered at least 10 days before the exam.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Studying suggested literature

Attendance

Studying reference literature: it is possible to arrange an individualized programme or to write a short essay substituting reference literature. The essay must be written in autonomy and studying a minimum of four books; a plagiarism checker will be used.

Course books

Besides the same literature foreseen for students regularly atting lessons, those not attending or attending irregularly must study one of the following volumes:

- A. Colombo, Fuori controllo? Miti e realtà dell'immigrazione in Italia, il Mulino, Bologna, 2012
- B. Baggiani, L. Longoni, G. Solano, eds., Noi e l’altro? Materiali per l’analisi e la comprensione dei fenomeni migratori contemporanei, Discanti, Bagnocavallo (RA), 2011

Assessment

Oral exam, with a discussion on reference literature and their relation with practices, experiences, recent events and debates

Students are particularly appreciated when:
- they study books in foreign languages
- they show to be able to connect different concepts, theories, researches
- they take part into research activities, and are able to connect knowledge and experience 

For those writing an essay, the exam will focus on its discussion. The essay must be around 15 pages long, and must imply the study and analysis of a minimum of four books (to be agreed with the professor). The essay must be delivered at least 10 days before the exam.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative programme