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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

be quite underestimated in media, public opinion and academia. It is the idea that “ethnicity” can be approached …

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Measurement and Spatial Effects of the Immigrant Created Cultural Diversity in Sydney

Lalich, Walter F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

, annual income and expenditure, usage, management and employment patterns, gender and youth participation, functions and …

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Advocatus, et non latro? Testing the Supplier-Induced-Demand Hypothesis for Italian Courts of Justice

Buonanno, Paolo; Galizzi, Matteo M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand (SID) frame. Drawing on an original panel dataset for the 169 Italian courts of justice between 2000 and 2007, we first document that the number of lawyers is positively...

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Gender Issue and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa

Minoia, Giulia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender … relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international … reach an improved governance and planning in the field of sustainable water management. Therefore, to investigate gender …

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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood

May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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A Biologist’s View of Individual Cultural Identity for the Study of Cities

Pearce, Richard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

The behaviour of urban populations is compared with the systems directing behaviour in individuals. This is both a metaphor and a mechanistic parallel. The biological model draws upon recent developments in brain research and psychological and cultural anthropology. The development and operation...

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Cultural Rights and Civic Virtue

Ford, Richard Thompson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper addresses the potential tension between two broadly stated policy objectives: the preservation of distinctive cultural traditions, often through the mechanism of formal legal rights, and the fostering of civic virtue, a sense of local community and the advancement of common civic...

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Bio-Ecological Diversity vs. Socio-Economic Diversity: A Comparison of Existing Measures

Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pinelli, Dino; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...

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Glocal Dialogue Transformation through Transcultural Communication

Matoba, Kazuma - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper addresses the role of dialogical communication in acculturation efforts within organizations and regions …

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The Role of the City in Fostering Intergroup Communication in a Multicultural Environment: Saint-Petersburg’s Case

Taranova, Natalya V. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

In this paper two aspects of the issue will be discussed. First, there is the role of authorities, NGOs in forming the multicultural environment in the city with cultural diversity. Second, the city as social context, the images and myths of the city determine discourse on multiculturalism and...

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