57850 - Sociology of Migrations

Learning outcomes

The social work, analysed from a micro-sociological point of view, is the theme of this course. Particularly, on the basis of some European surveys on the interactions between users and “front line” operators, the aim of the course is to explain the concrete and daily organization and action forms in some social services.

Course contents

In the first part, the changes happened in the daily users of the social services will be examined. In fact, the generalization of the insecurity and the impoverishment and vulnerability processes put the social worker in front of need conditions of users, who aren't setting by an administrative pre-defined target-group. From this point of view, new users represent an innovating challenge for social work.
 
In the second part of the course, the interactions between operators and users will be analysed. A special attention will be reserved to the micro-contexts of the production of services and the social representations of need shared by social workers, through a second reading of the principal elements for the social work (autonomy, project, contract, introduction, user, etc.).
 

Readings/Bibliography

Student have to choose a book in every one of the following groups: 
 
A Group 
L. Zanfrini, Sociologia delle migrazioni, Laterza, Roma, 2004.
G. Pollini, G. Scidà, Sociologia delle migrazioni e della società multietnica, Angeli, Milano, 2002.
 
B Group
L. Zanfrini, Sociologia della convivenza interetnica, Laterza, Roma, 2004.
W. Thomas, Gli immigrati e l'America, Donzelli, Roma, 2000.
P. Guidicini, C. Landuzzi, Tra nomadismo e radicamento, Angeli, Milano, 1994.
M. Wieviorka, La differenza culturale, Laterza, Roma, 2002.
A. Sayad, La doppia assenza. Dalle illusioni dell'emigrato alle sofferenze dell'immigrato, Cortina, Milano, 2002.
C. Landuzzi, A. Tarozzi, A. Treossi (a cura di), Tra luoghi e generazioni: migrazioni africane in Italia e in Francia, Harmattan Italia, Torino, 1995.
AA. VV., “Tra due mondi. Forme e grado di adattamento della comunità senegalese”, in Sociologia Urbana e Rurale, n. 64-65, 2001.
 
C Group
H. Kureishi, Il Budda delle periferie, Bompiani, Milano, 2003.
S. Rushdie, I figli della mezzanotte, Garzanti, Milano, 2003.
P. Guidicini, La regina della baia, Angeli, Milano, 1983.

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminaries.

Assessment methods

Oral exam about reccomended reading.

Teaching tools

transparency blackboard

Office hours

See the website of Carla Landuzzi

See the website of Maurizio Bergamaschi