Cross-ethnic networks, self-reception system, and functional integration of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Rome

Korač, Maja

doi:10.1007/s12134-001-1017-9

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“…Sometimes employers provide aid that goes well beyond their contractual obligations, for example, support for the reunification of spouses or children, even allowing them to stay in their home, or letting them stay in the house after the death of the elderly person and the end of the working relationship. Other research studies, such as Korac's (2001Korac's ( , 2009) work on Balkan refugees in Rome, have documented this point: employers can exploit their domestic workers, but they can also protect and help them beyond their contractual duties, and often, the two aspects go together.…”

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Surviving underground: Irregular migrants, Italian families, invisible welfare

Ambrosini

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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Ambrosini M. Surviving underground: irregular migrants, Italian families, invisible welfare The aim of this article, which focuses on the Italian case and its domestic and care sector, is to highlight two aspects. The first concerns the interaction among unauthorised migrants, the demand of their labour on the one hand and the other social actors they meet during their settling process on the other hand. The second concerns the nature of the irregularity of their condition, which is dynamic and often transient. Despite the increasingly fierce declarations, the reality does not correspond to the claims regarding control of the migration flows. Recognised or disguised forms of tolerance with only occasional implementation of severe measures – such as deportation – and regularisation processes of different kinds and with different purposes seem to be more the rule than the exception in Italy, as in other developed countries.

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Section: Surviving Undergroundmentioning

confidence: 96%

Surviving underground: Irregular migrants, Italian families, invisible welfare

Ambrosini

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…which are widely suggested as indicative of successful integration. Policy documents and analyses also frequently structure thinking about integration around such sectoral issues (Korac 2001). 'Full and Equal Citizens' was fundamentally organized around such themes, as is much work addressing refugee integration in Europe, in an emphasis that can be traced back to the 1951 Geneva Convention with its specification of social rights of refugees in terms of such issues as employment, social welfare, education and housing (United Nations 1951).…”

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Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework

Ager

Strang

2008

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants, and a matter of significant public discussion. Coherent policy development and productive public debate are, however, both threatened by the fact that the concept of integration is used with widely differing meanings. Based on review of attempted definitions of the term, related literature and primary fieldwork in settings of refugee settlement in the UK, the paper identifies elements central to perceptions of what constitutes 'successful' integration. Key domains of integration are proposed related to four overall themes: achievement and access across the sectors of employment, housing, education and health; assumptions and practice regarding citizenship and rights; processes of social connection within and between groups within the community; and structural barriers to such connection related to language, culture and the local environment. A framework linking these domains is presented as a tool to foster debate and definition regarding normative conceptions of integration in resettlement settings.

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“…They often experience either a general lack of assistance followed by integration-for those who are able to organize themselves spontaneously and to create a self-reception system that facilitates their functional integration-or they receive assistance but still fail to gain integration. As a consequence forced migrants in Italy have often followed paths and trajectories into the labor market typical of economic migrants (Ambrosini, 2012;Korac, 2001). Given the limitations of the Italian system of asylum, the importance of integration into the job market, including, at the beginning, in the informal economy, is especially important for the achievement of economic independence and a more strongly legitimate status.…”

Section: The Experience Of Forced Migrants In Italymentioning

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The Integration of Forced Migrants Into the Italian Labor Market

Ortensi

2015

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Cross-ethnic networks, self-reception system, and functional integration of refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Rome

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Surviving underground: Irregular migrants, Italian families, invisible welfare

Surviving underground: Irregular migrants, Italian families, invisible welfare

Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework

The Integration of Forced Migrants Into the Italian Labor Market

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