RISULTATI RICERCA

This paper describes the recent transformation about the latest twenty years of one of the oldest streets of Bologna. Via del Pratello has always been identified as a suburb with his own tradition of community. After giving the specification of the historical context and the identification of the main reasons of change, the essay describes differents aspects that the street reveals today. Now Via del Pratello is better known as the Street of taverns with an incredible night life. This empirical research have been performed in order to define and measure how the quality of life has changed, becoming a pedestrians area.

This article examines the social policies for immigrant people, with regard to the context of Lille. France applies a universalistic model of integration. Anyway, from the analysis of local policies, several studies point out many interventions oriented to the acknowledgement of cultural difference. Through a qualitative analysis, we have tried to verify if this ambivalence is present in Lille too. The results confirm the hypothesis: in the local policies specific interventions are put into practice, like a necessary adjustment to a universalistic approach.

From the beginning of the nineties non-profit actors, public agencies and private actors have filled the gap existing in the national real estate market between public and private building and economically weak people with the own activity in a more and more institutionalised way. Trying to exceed the category of emergency, these best practices experience repeatable models of effective inhabited and social integration. They try to place the foundations of a new relational inhabited model.

Based on a research made in 2002 in Burkina Faso, the article establishes a connection between development co-operation and migration. With a study made on the migration situation of the country, particularly in the colony period, the text explains the situation of two different Burkina Faso savannas populations included in this exam: Nanoro and Pilimpikou. Both of them have similar culture and territory structure but their historic path was very different because of the access to developmental help, which was huge in the first case and non existent in the second one. How did these facts influence the migration of these two populations? In this case-study, the relationship between the help of development and the reduce of migration has been positive.

Mauritians are one of the less studied groups of immigrants in Italy, although they present some very interesting aspects. They are localized in four cities, three in the south and one in the north and are very well accepted from the local population. Notwithstanding they show a kind of plural integration, strictly maintaining a separateness from the host society. The research illustrated in the article describe the social life of one district in Bari where the Mauritians are concentrated. The results on one side show the normal features of the Mauritians migration and settlements but on the other highlight the contradictions of the integrative process, especially for women and second generation immigrants. Both women and children seems much more oriented to a process of cultural change that meets severe social obstacles in the general way of life of the Mauritian community.

The essay analyses the town access in Africa by the informal settlements dwellers. The aim of this kind of analysis is to compare life conditions in the slums with the ones in the rural villages. The hypothesis is that slums represent an opportunity of town access, goods consume and services, also, are given the possibility to approach resources. Nevertheless the presence of negative elements as violence and corruption requires laws distinguishing between public and private goods. Slums’ nature shows a real wide variety of opposite aspects: on one hand people have the opportunity to approach goods and resources but on the other hand this kind of concentration means loads of problems crossing each others, different hardships mixing in a contest of deprivation and never-ending poverty, where is extremely difficult find out appropriate solutions. Dwellers conditions are huge differentiated: for some people slums are an opportunity to approach the market as sellers and buyers; for others is a parking area to survive. What comes on surface is that urban concentration is a logical and rational process because satisfies people’s needs.

Although women are a wide percentage of Mexican immigrants in the USA, the feminine migration has disregarded. Some experts believe this short attention is due to their being passive reactors to male decisions and their little share in work. But, in the last years, woman is beginning to be considered as a social subject who acts in different domestic and economic contexts and who can keep alive family traditions. Moreover, in this last period, Mexican women don’t arrive necessarily in the USA by their husbands and their family’s side. This work rebuilds different stages of the feminine migration in the American territory, the modalities of adaptation, the uneasiness that women immigrants have to face in the new reality and reasons that induce to migrate, like the economic one.

L’autore individua l’intreccio problematico che si pone nella nostra epoca tra una società in trasformazione orientata verso la dominanza dell’apparato scientifico tecnologico e la competenza dell’analista di gruppo che valorizza aspetti dell’umano apparentemente molto diversi, caratterizzati dall’attenzione verso i processi di simbolizzazione e i fantasmi inconsci. Viene individuata, come funzione specifica dell’analista individuale e di gruppo una competenza capace di ammortizzare le trasformazioni violente e globalizzanti attraverso la difesa e conservazione delle aree di pensiero preconsce e il mantenimento dell’equilibrio tra globalizzazione e differenziazione. Si pone il quesito se ciò potrà realizzare una sinergia con la cultura dominante, un conflitto o la scomparsa di una cultura.