Public organisations are fundamental actors in migrant incorporation processes, as they are
in charge of assessing migrants' entitlement and providing access to welfare services. While …

On the books, the inclusiveness of the Italian framework regulating healthcare access for
migrants is indisputable. However, we might wonder how access takes shape on the front …

The paper provides ethnographic insight into the social construction of migrants by
examining the everyday working of the reception system in one of Italy's regions that is most …

Abstract 1 This conceptual paper maps the field for an upcoming comparative research
project on pathways of migrants with precarious status to local welfare services in three …

This article analyses the role of professional social workers in managing immigrant clients'
needs in Italy, against a background of residual welfare provision, inconsistent immigrant …

What happens in institutions like schools or hospitals when local service provision overlaps
with the control of national borders? Such overlap is unavoidable if unlawful residents are to …

This open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent
limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular …

This project aims at mapping and enhancing local strategies to address the exclusion from
essential services of migrants with precarious residential status. It will explore the …

Integration policies could be defined as those policies that aim to facilitate immigrants'
integration process in its three dimensions: the legal/political, the socio-economic and the …

Migrants' access to the national territory is filtered through categorisation processes that
entangle the legal–administrative statuses produced by immigration controls with stratified …