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The paper is an overview of diversity in history, starting as far back as the societies in classical Ancient Europe and … between status and class. The second part of the paper is devoted to diversity outside formal society with the definitions of … diversity and marginality. …
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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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hypothesis. Improvements in internet communications are found to increase the ethnic diversity of the Italian provinces. …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990’s had no adverse effects on native wages and … ‘flexible’ as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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This paper reviews the experience of Rome in dealing with the challenges posed by a multi-ethnic society. A central feature of the local political strategy is the “Pact of Integration”. The adoption of the Pact proposes governance as a model of participation including many actors, namely...
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This paper deals with a comparison of two governmental initiatives in the direction of immigrants – the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians (Boston, 1998) and Conseil de la Citoyenneté des Parisiens Non-Communautaires (Paris, 2001). In both cities, local political leaders justify their...
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We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...
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An historical and spatial approach is crucial to the understanding of any city. Waves of immigration and population … focus just on the new foreign immigration into Milan over the last 25 years or so risks omitting the deep historical … mixture of approaches in order to understand and map diversity in Milan, its province and its region. It is intended as a …
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Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …
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awareness and knowledge, managing ethical diversity over cross-country business transactions ends up to be a major challenge for …
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