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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

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

– generation of diversity - establish the conditions and limits within which different individuals can reproduce their culture as …

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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

This paper analyses the contribution to the creation of a culturally diverse Sydney landscape by ethnic communities following the arrival of over a million and half non-English speaking settlers since 1948. Through fragmented collective actions, around 450 communal places were established to...

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Like Oil and Water or Chocolate and Peanut Butter? Ethnic Diversity and Social Participation of Young People in England

Fumagalli, Elena; Fumagalli, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The paper studies the impact of ethnic diversity on social participation of young people. We first propose a theoretical model in which the agents choose between structured and unstructured social activities by taking into account the ethnic composition of the groups they join. We test our...

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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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How Homophily Affects Learning and Diffusion in Networks

Golub, Benjamin; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily - the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only connection density...

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Indicators of Migrants’ Socio-Professional Integration

Gregori, Emilio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Understanding and monitoring the diversity which lies under migrants’ socio-professional integration trends is a challenge that both Governments and local administrations must be able to face. This paper is about a research project, developed under the EU initiative Equal, consisting in the...

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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

and cultural anthropology. The development and operation of the personal value-system are seen as constituting Identity in … an individual, and Culture in a community. A mechanism is proposed by which social attachments between individuals lead … socially necessary, made peaceful by specific values and adversarial by others. Identity development is such a complex process …

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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

role of city’s institutions in fostering inter-group communication, this paper will discuss the inclusive culture of the …

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Theories of Diversity within Organisation Studies: Debates and Future Trajectories

Janssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

identified mainly four issues: a narrow or broad definition of diversity, a stable or dynamic conception of identity, the role of …

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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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