Standbild und Integrationsaussichten der ausländischen Bevölkerung Südtirols. Gesellschaftsleben, Sprache, Religion und Wertehaltung = Integration prospects for the foreign population in South Tyrol. Social life, language, and religious values

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Immigrant Associations in the Metropolitan Area of Finland : Forms of Mobilisation, Participation and Representation

This study examines the role of immigrant associations in the societal and political integration of immigrants into Finnish society. The societal focus is on the ability of immigrant associations to mobilise their ethnic group members to participate in the socio-economic, cultural and political domains of Finnish society and in certain cases even beyond. The political integrative aims are the opportunities of immigrant associations to participate and represent the interests of their ethnic group in local and national policy making. This study focuses on associations in the Metropolitan Area of Finland, (Espoo, Helsinki and Vantaa).The qualitative research consisted of 71 interviews conducted with members of immigrant associations and civil servants. These interviews were mainly semi-structured, including some additional open-ended questions. Additional data consisted of documents, planning reports and of follow-up enquiries. -- In the analysis of the data I categorised thirty-two immigrant associations according to the activity forms and the description of the goals by the members. The four categories consisted of integrative, societal, ethno-cultural and transnational immigrant associations. Most of the immigrant associations belonged to the integrative category (15 of 32 associations). On the one hand the aims of these associations are to provide access for their ethnic group members into Finnish society, while on the other to strengthen the ethnic identity of their members by organising ethno-cultural activities. The societal associations only focused on activities with the objective of including immigrants into the Finnish labour market and educational system. The goal of ethno-cultural associations was to strengthen the ethnic identity of their ethnic group members. The transnational associations aimed at improving the living conditions of women and children in the members' country of origin. The possibilities for immigrant associations to mobilise their members depends partly on external financing. Subsidies have been allocated for societal activities in particular. There remains a risk of the crowding out of ethno-cultural activities: something which has already taken place in several European countries. Immigrant associations aim to strengthen the identity of immigrants mainly by organising social and ethno-cultural activities. Another important target was to provide peer support and therapy courses. Additionally, immigrant women's associations offer assistance to women who have encountered violence by providing counselling and in some cases access to shelter. The data showed that there is an ever growing need to pay heed to the well-being of women, children and elderly immigrants. The participation of immigrant associations in the municipalities' integrative issues takes place mainly through cooperative projects. Until the end of the 1990s there had not been much cooperation. The problem with the projects was that they had mainly been managed by civil servants, whereas members from immigrant associations had remained in a more passive position. Representation of immigrant associations in councils has been fairly weak. Immigrant associations are included in the multicultural councils of Espoo and Vantaa, but only in the planning stages. The municipality of Helsinki does not include immigrant associations due to the large number of organisations which causes problems in finding fair, democratic representation. At the national level, the ‘Advisory Board for Ethnic Relations’ – ETNO didn’t chose its members based on membership of ethnic associations, but based on belongingness to one of the larger language groups spoken by the foreign population in Finland. Since ETNO’s third period (2005-2007), the representatives of immigrant associations and ethnic minority groups have been chosen from proposed candidates. Key words: immigrant associations, integration, mobilisation, participation, representation, the Metropolitan area of Finland, immigrant (women), civil servants

WWW.EQUAL-FUEIB.ORG : una base de datos de cualificaciones profesionales y capacitaciones formativas de la población extranjera inmigrada en las Illes Balears.

Se presenta la base de datos desarrollada en el marco del Estudio sobre las cualificaciones profesionales y las capacitaciones formativas de la población extranjera inmigrada en las Illes Balears, que reúne información y documentación referente al sistema educativo, formación profesional, cualificaciones y competencias profesionales de España y otros diecinueve países extracomunitarios.

Interculturalità, radici storiche e modelli di cura nelle istituzioni degli hospice: un percorso interdisciplinare in prospettiva comparata

Interculturalità, radici storiche e modelli di cura nelle istituzioni degli hospice: un percorso interdisciplinare in prospettiva comparata” è uno studio di conoscenza e punto di partenza per la formazione delle equipe mediche che curano i malati terminali di culture diverse. Attraverso il confronto delle varie realtà Hospice della Regione Emilia Romagna e con il metodo del questionario semistrutturato si è fatta una fotografia dell' esperienza assistenziale in cure palliative. Si mette in luce l'esiguità della popolazione straniera negli Hospice dell'Emilia Romagna in linea con il trend dei ricoveri oncologici ospedalieri. Tuttavia è possibile pensare a una crescita importante dei pazienti di culture diverse nei prossimi decenni e alla necessità di una adeguata preparazione dei team di cura

Cultural and migration aspects in functional abdominal pain

Compared to Europe's mean immigrant contingent of 7.3 to 8.6 % Switzerland holds the highest contingent of foreign population with 23.5 %. Therefore it is of utmost importance that physicians have a knowledge of the specific characteristics of immigrant patients. The influence of personality factors (experience, behavior) is not independent from the influence of culturally-related environmental factors (regional differences in diet, pollutants, meanings, etc.). In addition, different cultural groups rate their quality of life differently. Psychological reasons for recurrent abdominal pain are stress (life events), effects of self-medication (laxatives, cocaine) and sexual abuse but also rare infectious diseases are more common among immigrants (e.g. tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, etc.). Migration-specific characteristics are mainly to find in the semiotics of the symptoms: not every abdominal pain is real pain in the abdomen. Finally, it is crucial to make the distinction between organic, functional and psychological-related pain. This can, however, usually only be accomplished in the context of the entire situation of a patient and, depending on the situation, with the support of a colleague from the appropriate cultural group or an experienced interpreter. In this review we limit ourselves to the presentation of the working population of the migrants, because these represent the largest group of all migrants. The specific situation of asylum seekers will also be refrained to where appropriate.

Cartografías migratorias urbanas : Distribución espacial de la población extranjera en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2010)

El presente artículo se propone estudiar la distribución espacial de los migrantes internacionales en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, mediante un análisis estadístico-cartográfico que toma como fuente de datos el Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010. Se realiza un análisis socioespacial a partir de datos censales georeferenciados mediante Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG), y se trabaja a partir de la construcción de mapas temáticos y el cálculo de indicadores estadísticos de distribución espacial. En este sentido, desde un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo que combina una escala macrosocial (en tanto abarca a esta ciudad en su totalidad) y microespacial (en la medida que permite visualizar diferencias que se producen a nivel intraurbano), se analiza cómo la presencia urbana de estos grupos, resultado de trayectorias sociales y espaciales diferentes, se manifiesta en patrones de localización particulares en el territorio urbano

Cartografías migratorias urbanas : Distribución espacial de la población extranjera en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2010)

El presente artículo se propone estudiar la distribución espacial de los migrantes internacionales en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, mediante un análisis estadístico-cartográfico que toma como fuente de datos el Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010. Se realiza un análisis socioespacial a partir de datos censales georeferenciados mediante Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG), y se trabaja a partir de la construcción de mapas temáticos y el cálculo de indicadores estadísticos de distribución espacial. En este sentido, desde un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo que combina una escala macrosocial (en tanto abarca a esta ciudad en su totalidad) y microespacial (en la medida que permite visualizar diferencias que se producen a nivel intraurbano), se analiza cómo la presencia urbana de estos grupos, resultado de trayectorias sociales y espaciales diferentes, se manifiesta en patrones de localización particulares en el territorio urbano.

Cartografías migratorias urbanas : Distribución espacial de la población extranjera en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2010)

El presente artículo se propone estudiar la distribución espacial de los migrantes internacionales en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, mediante un análisis estadístico-cartográfico que toma como fuente de datos el Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010. Se realiza un análisis socioespacial a partir de datos censales georeferenciados mediante Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG), y se trabaja a partir de la construcción de mapas temáticos y el cálculo de indicadores estadísticos de distribución espacial. En este sentido, desde un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo que combina una escala macrosocial (en tanto abarca a esta ciudad en su totalidad) y microespacial (en la medida que permite visualizar diferencias que se producen a nivel intraurbano), se analiza cómo la presencia urbana de estos grupos, resultado de trayectorias sociales y espaciales diferentes, se manifiesta en patrones de localización particulares en el territorio urbano

Cartografías migratorias urbanas : Distribución espacial de la población extranjera en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2010)

El presente artículo se propone estudiar la distribución espacial de los migrantes internacionales en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, mediante un análisis estadístico-cartográfico que toma como fuente de datos el Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010. Se realiza un análisis socioespacial a partir de datos censales georeferenciados mediante Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG), y se trabaja a partir de la construcción de mapas temáticos y el cálculo de indicadores estadísticos de distribución espacial. En este sentido, desde un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo que combina una escala macrosocial (en tanto abarca a esta ciudad en su totalidad) y microespacial (en la medida que permite visualizar diferencias que se producen a nivel intraurbano), se analiza cómo la presencia urbana de estos grupos, resultado de trayectorias sociales y espaciales diferentes, se manifiesta en patrones de localización particulares en el territorio urbano

Población extranjera y turismo residencial en el litoral de Alicante (1960-2011): repercusiones territoriales

El litoral de la provincia de Alicante ha registrado importantes cambios territoriales desde la década de 1960, como consecuencia de la difusión de las actividades turísticas. Las transformaciones territoriales, entre las que destaca la configuración de una dorsal de poblamiento litoral, se completan con las sociales. La llegada de población extranjera jubilada o prejubilada procedente del norte y centro de Europa ha hecho de la provincia de Alicante (España) uno de los territorios donde el turismo residencial tiene mayor peso a escala nacional. El objetivo de esta investigación es, por un lado, analizar los factores que justifican el asentamiento de amplios colectivos de inmigrantes en estas tierras y, por otro, poner de manifiesto las repercusiones sociales y territoriales asociadas a su llegada. La realización de entrevistas en urbanizaciones de municipios litorales y prelitorales permite avanzar en el conocimiento de estos factores, más allá de los datos estadísticos.

Constructing a normative national identity: the Leitkultur debate in Germany 2000/2001

In recent years, public discourse about German national identity has increasingly focussed on the large foreign population within Germany's borders. Whilst right-wing politicians such as Edmund Stoiber foster fears of identity loss ('Überfremdung'), more liberal observers, and indeed the ruling red-green coalition, acknowledge that multiethnicity has by now become an integral part of this identity. The debate experienced its provisional climax in late 2000 and early 2001. Friedrich Merz, then parliamentary leader of the CDU party, introduced the term 'Leitkultur' into the political discourse. The notion suggests the existence of a clearly identifiable spectrum of German cultural values and proposes that foreigners who wished to live in Germany should adhere to these values. Merz's proposal triggered a wave of highly controversial comments which have been evaluated for the purpose of this paper. It draws on roughly 350 newspaper articles and interviews and aims to introduce the English-speaking reader to the complex range of arguments. The Leitkultur debate is taken as symptomatic of the current state of public discourse about foreigners and national identity in Germany.

Minority type matters : ethnic diversity and tolerance in 29 European democracies

Past research has shown that having a large population of ethnic minorities beyond the neighborhood level arouses intolerance in the majority. However, this paper presents the argument that the effect of minority size on tolerance depends on minority type: the less subject the minority is to negative stereotyping, the more favorable the effect that minority size has on tolerance. In this study, a hierarchical linear model was applied to a dataset on advanced and emerging democracies in Europe. The analysis shows that when the duration and level of democracy are controlled for, ethnic tolerance was associated positively with native minority size and negatively with foreign population size.

Area, population, climate and leading industries of foreign countries. Prepared in Shoe and leather manufactures division.

At head of title: Department of commerce, Julius Klein, director. Consular districts.

Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Age of the foreign-born white population by country of bith.

Running title: Age of foreign-born white.

Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930. Population. Special report on foreign-born white families by country of birth of head. With an appendix giving statistics for Mexican, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese families.

"This publication is supplementary to the main report on families (vol. 6 of the fifteenth census reports on population), which contains statistics on foreign-born white families as a group, not classified by country of origin."--p. 5.