Editorial: Emerging Solidarities on the Ground in the Management and Approach of the COVID-19 Emergency

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Editorial on the Research TopicEmerging Solidarities on the Ground in the Management and Approach of the COVID EmergencyThe manuscripts published in the Special Issue Emerging Solidarities on the Ground in the Management and Approach of the COVID emergency made it possible to approach the different coping strategies and management of the COVID 19 pandemic in different parts of the world, reveals the enormous human capacity to respond to problems as challenging as the pandemic was and still is. Whether in large European cities or within the Brazilian Amazon, in different forms of social organization, it was possible to perceive an enormous capacity for resistance and resilience in the face of a problem of incalculable proportions and damage.This Special Issue gathers eight different papers, from authors representing Latin American institutions, and Canadian and European.The first manuscript, The Covid-19 Emergency and the Risk of Social Fragmentation in the Palermo case, by Siino, the experiences of associations working with people belonging to the weakest part of the community were analyzed from the social context in Southern Italy, in Palermo. Siino interviewed representatives of the main local associations as privileged witnesses, highlighting how the activities of local actors and how the dynamics of solidarity are influenced by the global Covid-19 phenomenon.Also referring to Italy, the manuscript The Italian Deaf community at the time of Coronavirus, by Tomasuolo et al., presented an analysis of the impacts of the pandemic crisis on the Italian deaf community as a linguistic minority. Authors also analyzed, how social media were exploited as a basis to promote social cohesion and share information about the emergence of the coronavirus, and how the deaf community shaped interpretation services in the public media. Hence, the use of social media allowed Deaf people to create a new virtual space.Moving to a different geographical context, the manuscript Covid-19 and the Brazilian Reality: The Role of Favelas in Combating the Pandemic by Carvalho Fernandes et al., showed that favelas' inhabitants are victims of the enormous social inequalities present in Brazilian society and that these are even more severe in the slums. Favelas suffer from lack of access to decent housing, potable water, and a minimum income for survival, what makes the effects of the pandemic more devastating. However, the organizing of actors on the ground and the creation of "Crisis Offices" in the slums led by social organizations and support institutions, has made possible to facilitate mechanisms for assistance.Three manuscripts in this Special Issue tackle the issue of COVID-19 and how it has impacted on the Brazilian indigenous communities, either deepening on how these communities have taken an

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