Contemporary debates give the impression that the presence of immigrants necessarily
spells strife. Yet as Immigration and Conflict in Europe shows, the incidence of conflict …

Social mobility is limited in most industrialized countries, and especially in the United States:
Children born to relatively poor parents are less likely to prosper than other children. This …

In this paper, we present a multidimensional fuzzy analysis of the levels and the patterns of
poverty and social fragility of migrants' families, in the Italian region of Lombardy, in year …

Poverty has been a central issue in social science for centuries. It has also, historically, been
a condition implying living conditions that we today, in most cases, do not find acceptable …

The EU‐wide survey “S tatistics on I ncome and L iving C onditions”(EU‐SILC) is extremely
important for international social science research and policy advice. It is therefore crucial to …

Although there is considerable research evidence showing that immigrants are at great risk
of poverty, there have been few comparative analyses of the poverty gap between …

In this article I analyse longitudinal patterns of relative poverty among the foreign-born in
Sweden, with data drawn from the register-based LINDA dataset. The descriptive statistics …

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to extend Hodges' model of relationships between
financial planning for retirement with psychosocial variables to predict both objective and …

Immigration is an issue of growing relevance in welfare states. This article seeks to better
understand the link between social welfare and immigration in Israel, a welfare state that has …

In this paper, we apply the novel Fuzzy First-Order Dominance (F-FOD) methodology to rank
migrant subpopulations in Lombardy (Italy), in terms of multidimensional poverty and social …