IMMIGRATION POLICY
POLITICHE DELL'IMMIGRAZIONE
A.Y. | Credits |
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2023/2024 | 6 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Eduardo Barberis | An hour before or after lessons, and anyway by appointment to be agreed via e-mail |
Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
Spanish
French
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
This class is aimed to provide students with knowledge on immigration trends at local level, on the disadvantaged condition of minorities and migrants, and on related policy and practice. Thus, the programme will focus on:
a) settlement patterns; national and local immigration policy models;
b) immigration and welfare, with a focus on the current policy debate and policy managament and management at EU, national and local level, as well as the role of private actors;
c) immigration and social work, with a focus on antiracist social work and intercultural mediation.
Program
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
Social work with migrants and minorities: theory, practice, target groups
In the final part of the course, specific issues of students' interest may be discussed (for instance, racism and discrimination; asylum systems; intercultural mediation; new generations from an immigrant background; immigration outside gateways and in small towns)
Bridging Courses
None. Knowledge of basics of immigration studies are recommended. Please, ask for suggestions.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
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: linking theory and empirical evidences; awareness on discrimination in social work; ability to apply porper policy strategies in different cases - skills to be achieved with discussion on the relation between literature and recent events, simulations, field visits.
Making judgements: using knowkedge to address and steer policy; doing critical policy analysis, in reference to measures and facts involving minorities and migrants. Skills to be achieved via discussion of events, news, simulations, case analysis and discussion with social workers
Communication skills: skills in using reflexively a non-discriminatory and non-oppressive language. Skills to be achieved reading textbooks and listening to lessons
Learning skills: skills in finding sources of information and interpretation on main issues in migration studies and policy
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
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. At least a field visit will be organized - if the pandemic situation will alllow it.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons, with the support of ICT, audiovisuals, field visits and seminard.
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 anda action-researches on:
- intercultural education;
- intercultural mediation;
- urban diversity policy;
- immigration and small towns
- tools for the quantitative analysis of immigration policy
- discrimination practices and antidiscrimination policy
- social participation of minorities and people from immigrant background
- Innovative teaching methods
Flipped classroom, simulated cases
- Attendance
Being present to minimum 75% of lesson hours. Studying reference literature.
- 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. Migration processes in Europe and Italy
One of the following:- PISTE Project, Experimenting Migrant Participation in Small and Medium-Sized Towns: White Paper of the PISTE Project., Urbino University Press, Urbino, 2024 (downloadable here: https://press.uniurb.it/index.php/migratowns/index)
- M. Colucci, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia, Carocci, Roma, 2018
- M. Giovannetti, N. Zorzella (a cura di), Ius migrandi, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2020 (8 articoli a scelta; testo scaricabile qui: http://ojs.francoangeli.it/_omp/index.php/oa/catalog/book/553)
- S. Hasanaj, Immigrazione e diversità, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2019
- G. Bulli, A. Tonini, Migrazioni in Italia: oltre la sfida, Firenze University Press, Firenze, 2021Area 2. Immigration and social work
E. Barberis, P. Boccagni, C. Denaro, Il lavoro sociale con le persone immigrate, Maggioli, Santarcangelo di R. (RN), 2024 (those owning the first edition, published in 2017, are not required to study the 2024 version)
Area 3. Specific issues in immigration and social work
One of the following options:
- G. Faso, S. Bontempelli, Accogliere rifugiati e richiedenti asilo, CESVOT, Firenze, 2017 (scaricabile gratuitamente da: http://www.cesvot.it/documentazione/accogliere-rifugiati-e-richiedenti-asilo )
- I. Fanlo Cortés e D. Ferrari (a cura di), I soggetti vulnerabili nei percorsi migratori, Giappichelli, Torino, 2020
- G. Mannella, F. Mantovani, M. Rescigno, Accoglienza e integrazione. Una sfida per il lavoro sociale, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2019
- B. Sorgoni, Antropologia delle migrazioni. L'età dei rifugiati, Carocci, Roma, 2024.
- B. Segatto, D. Di Masi, A. Surian, L'ingiusta distanza. I percorsi dei minori stranieri non accompagnati dall'accoglienza alla cittadinanza, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2018 (scaricabile gratuitamente dalla piattaforma FrancoAngeli Open Access - http://bit.ly/francoangeli-oa )
- E. Cabiati, Intercultura e social work, Erikson, Trento, 2020 (9 capitoli a scelta)
- V. Lannutti, Le Politiche Migratorie. Indicazioni di welfare, cambiamenti legislativi e lavoro sul campo, Amon, 2023
- M.G. Foschino Barbaro, Minori non accompagnati fra vulnerabilità e resilienza, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2021
- P. Campanella (a cura di), Vite sottocosto, Aracne, Roma, 2018
- M. Ambrosini (a cura di), Rifugiati e solidali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2023
- J. Soss, R.C. Fording, S.F. Schram, Disciplinare i poveri. Paternalismo neoliberale e dimensione razziale nel governo della povertà, Mimesis, Milano, 2022
- O. Ryndyk, B. Suter, G. Odden (eds), Migration to and from welfare states, Springer, Cham, 2021
- F. Biondi dal Monte, E. Rossi, Diritto e immigrazioni. Percorsi di diritto costituzionale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2022
- L. Galli, La coprogrammazione e la coprogettazione dei servizi di integrazione dei migranti, Giappichelli, Torino, 2022
- B. Riccio, F. Tarabusi (a cura di), Incontrare le migrazioni. Spunti per l'accoglienza e l'inclusione di migranti, richiedenti asilo e rifugiati, I libri di Emil, Città di Castello, 2023 (from page 63; this book can be downloaded here: https://www.ilibridiemil.it/images/Repository/10.17457_9788866804697_IncontrareMigrazioni.pdf )
- C. Lanini, Famiglie straniere e tutela dei minori, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2024.
- 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
- the proficiency in professional lingoStudents that attend lessons regularly can write an essay, replacing the oral exam. 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 lecturer). 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Studying suggested literature
- Attendance
Studying reference literature: it is possible to arrange an individualized programme
- 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:
- M. Ambrosini, Migrazioni, EGEA, Milano, 2019
- M. Ambrosini, L'invasione immaginaria, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2020
- F. Quassoli, Clandestino, Meltemi, Milano, 2021
- P. Boccagni, Vite ferme. Storie di migranti in attesa, il Mulino, Bologna, 2024
- 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
- they show proficiency in professional lingo
- 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.
Notes
Students can request to sit the final exam in English, Spanish or French with an alternative programme
I'm available to flank students interested to complete their internship doing research with a professor. I can flank students interested in the following fields
- Local welfare policies
- Educationa policy
- Features, policies and data on immigrant integration (with a special focus on small towns or refugees)
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