Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes ...the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. This book reveals that while law and the rhetoric of policymakers stress the urgency of integration, not only are they failing in that effort, but law itself plays a role in that failure. In addressing this paradox, the author combines theoretical insights and extensive data from myriad sources collected over more than a decade to demonstrate the connections among immigrants' role as cheap labor - carefully inscribed in law - and their social exclusion, criminalization, and racialization. Extrapolating from this economics of alterité, this book engages more general questions of citizenship, belonging, race and community in this global era.
Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited
brings together leading experts on the political economies
of southern Europe-specifically Greece, Italy, Spain, and
Portugal-to closely analyze and explain the ...primary socioeconomic
and institutional features that define "Mediterranean capitalism"
within the wider European context. These economies share a
number of features, most notably their difficulties to provide
viable answers to the challenge of globalization.
By examining and comparing such components as welfare, education
and innovation policies, cultural dimensions, and labor market
regulation, Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited attends to
both commonalities and divergences between the four countries,
identifying the main reasons behind the poor performance of their
economies and slow recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2008.
This volume also sheds light on the process of diversification
among the four countries and addresses whether it did and still
does make sense to speak of a uniquely Mediterranean model of
capitalism.
Contributors: Alexandre Afonso, Leiden University; Lucio
Baccaro, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Rui
Branco, NOVA University of Lisbon; Fabio Bulfone, Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies; Giliberto Capano, University
of Bologna; Sabrina Colombo, University of Milan; Lisa Dorigatti,
University of Milan; Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo; Matteo
Jessoula, University of Milan; Andrea Lippi, University of
Florence; Manos Matsaganis, Polytechnic University of Milan; Oscar
Molina, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Manuela Moschella,
Scuola Normale Superiore; Sofia A. Pérez, Boston University; Gemma
Scalise, University of Bergamo; Arianna Tassinari, Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies.
This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating thea transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the ...19th and the 20th centuries. Thea subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal labour; the tendencya towards independent work and the role of culture; forms of labour management (from paternalistic policies to the provision of welfare capitalism); the importance of the institutional framework and the wider political context; and women's labour and gender relations.
This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the 'southern model' ...of the welfare state, the situation of each country is clearly illustrated. This book also discusses how the experience of southern Europe might bear upon the situation of the East European accession countries. This is excellent reading for those interested in social change across Europe and beyond.
The Mediterranean coastal regions of Southern Europe have long been world leaders in mass tourism. This book examines some key questions for tourism development in these areas, with implications for ...similar regions across the world. The standardised forms of mass tourism are diversifying – with more specialised forms, notably those based on nature, culture and heritage, and those catering for special interests. There is a growing spectrum of modes of tourism, with an emphasis on variety, flexibility and permeability. Both mass tourism and the more diversified forms substantially impact on sustainable development. Policies promoting sustainable development are often of two main types: developing smaller-scale, alternative tourism products that are intended to be less damaging to the environment and society, and secondly, attempts to make mass tourism coastal resorts more sustainable. But there has been little critical assessment of these policies, either evaluating their basic assumptions or their successes and failures in practice. This edited book critically examines these issues for varied coastal regions in Southern Europe, including case studies from Spain, Croatia, Turkey, and north and south Cyprus.
The entry of migrant populations to Europe, and especially to countries of Southern Europe, is expected to drastically change the make-up of state school classes as learners of various ages, ethnic ...backgrounds, and mother tongues are going to co-exist within the same educational setting. In Greece, in particular, the landscape of education has already started changing as a significant number of immigrant students have joined mainstream classrooms. This volume maps this new educational reality and its challenges, as Greek teachers are required, with very limited training and resources, to address those students' educational and socio-emotional needs. All chapters are authored by Greek researchers who are actively involved in the study of refugees' and immigrants' education, their needs, and their educational, linguistic and political rights. Despite the fact that education for immigrants and refugees has become the focus of much research on a global level, the ongoing rapid rise of immigrant populations in Southern Europe has not been adequately researched. This book consequently meets the need for further research and empirical studies in this field.
North/Southfocuses on the dramatic changes in the intellectual and political typography of a Europe divided between the countries of the North and of those of the South.
Southern European Parliaments in Democracy analyses the development of the parliaments of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey since the mid-1980s. This book considers the challenges of the ...transition to democracy and outlines how the Parliaments of Southern Europe have adapted to the pressures of a democratic polity. Its focus is an assessment of the main changes that have taken place since the periods of transition to democracy right up to the present day. Chapters are country specific and consider a variety of indicators, from legislation and scrutiny to the social background of MPs.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies.
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of ...neglected actors of globalization - migrant women - as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questions dominant paradigms about women as passive victims of patriarchal structures and brings out instead their agency and the creative ways in which they take control of their lives in often difficult circumstances. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the author offers a valuable dual comparison between two Southern European countries on the one hand and between two migrant groups, one Christian and one Muslim, on the other, thus bringing to light unique detailed data on migration decision-making, settlement and on the multiple ways in which different women cope with the consequences of their transnational lives.
