Past and Present Migration Challenges

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history. It addresses a variety of migration issues involving Europe and the Americas in order to offer new insights on past and future migration and integration policies.

The volume comprises multi-disciplinary research from both continents dealing with the economic, political, demographical and sociological impact of migration. This interdisciplinary approach aims to stimulate intellectual dialogue on the migration phenomenon among the international community of scholars in Europe and North and South America. It is divided into three parts, which offer an essential contribution to the issue of migration and aim at better understanding the effect that different forms of migration have had and will continue to exert on economic and social change in receiving countries. This book is a valuable resource for a wide audience including academics, students in theeconomic and social sciences, and government and EU officials working with migration topics.

Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on migration through history, focusing on economic and social issues Presents case studies of Italian business and entrepreneurship in Latin America in the early twentieth century Combines contributions from economics, economic history, sociology, law and demography

Auteur
Francesca Fauri teaches Economic History at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. Her main research interests concern the history of European economic integration, local business history, Italy's aviation history and Italian and European migration movements.

Debora Mantovani teaches Sociology of Inequality at the Department of Political and Social Science of the University of Bologna. Her main research interests include the sociology of migration and education and primarily focus on children of immigrants' school integration.

Contenu

1.Introduction.- 2Atlantic Reflections: Italian Spirits and Business Communities in Americas.- 3.Italians in Southern Brasil: Tradition and Innovation.- 4.Business and Transmission of Knowledge: Italian Migration to Brasil.- 5.Science, Techniques, Ideas: Italian Emigration in the Construction of Modern Argentina.- 6.The Mafia in the Italian Ethnic Press in Argentina.- 7.Italian Remittances in Great Migration Years.- 8.Living Arrangements of European Second-Generation Immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century.- 9.Policy Incoherence? The UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development.- 10.Dreaming Europe: Migrants from Moldova to the EU since the End of the USSR.- 11.Solidarity Driven by Utilitarianism: How Hungarian Migration Policy Transformed and Exploited Virtues of Solidarity.- 12.The Role of Local Socio-Economic Integration in Italian Asylum Adjudications.- 13.Past Migration and Current Challenges to Citizenship and Integration: The Chilean Migration in Italy.- 14.Italian Citizenship and New Generations: The Cases of Italian Without Citizenship and CoNNGI.