A distinguishing feature of Italian worker cooperatives is the propensity to reinvest a huge share of profits into asset locks, a common fund, non divisible and non appropriable by members, even at the end of the cooperative’s life. This work investigates the reasons for this practice, after...

(english) The aim of this work is to propose a critical analysis of the recent research works on the Senegalese associations in Italy. First, the main socio-economic characteristics of the Senegalese migration are described. Second, the literature review on Senegalese associations in Italy focus...