The perception of foreigners in northeast Italy

The Friuli Venezia Giulia region is highly attractive for immigration, but the region is also a tourist destination: in 2015 there were 1,104,118 foreign arrivals (+ 5.2% over the previous year) and in the region they are present in research facilities and internationally renowned training institutions. The goal of this research was to explore the perception that people have of "foreigners", which traits characterize them, what feelings they evoke. To this end, a brief questionnaire was administered to a purposive sample and the valid questionnaires total 1.854. Despite the known limitations of a non-probabilistic survey, it is believed that the results obtained can provide interesting insights into the phenomenon studied. The foreigner is mostly one who "comes from another continent" but many people, especially the young, indicate as \u201cforeigners\u201d the natives of other European countries, and this stimulates interesting considerations about the sense of belonging to the European Community of the respondents and the relationship that should tie the natives of the different Community countries. A third of respondents believe that there are no elements that make a foreigner "different", while for the others the differences are mainly due to the culture, language, customs, and religion. The "declared" attitude reveals a generational difference (but not gender) against those who are foreigners: adults and elderly are more related to the stereotypes that guide the views to a certain mistrust and closure to foreigners. The new generations, however, also hold some of those views, but they seem to be in favour of greater openness. Across the latent attitudes from the factor analysis, very positive profiles emerge; the best qualities of "foreigners" are brought out. For all, regardless of gender or age, the first factor of honesty, kindness, trust, acceptance and security (to name a few) and the "personality traits" "clear" and "white" are all correlated to the idea of the \u201cforeigner\u201d. Foreigners are considered to be \u201ctoo present\u201d, and are less thought of as tourists than as people who reside in the country

The perception of foreigners in northeast Italy

The Friuli Venezia Giulia region is highly attractive for immigration, but the region is also a tourist destination: in 2015 there were 1,104,118 foreign arrivals (+ 5.2% over the previous year) and in the region they are present in research facilities and internationally renowned training institutions. The goal of this research was to explore the perception that people have of "foreigners", which traits characterize them, what feelings they evoke. To this end, a brief questionnaire was administered to a purposive sample and the valid questionnaires total 1.854. Despite the known limitations of a non-probabilistic survey, it is believed that the results obtained can provide interesting insights into the phenomenon studied. The foreigner is mostly one who "comes from another continent" but many people, especially the young, indicate as \u201cforeigners\u201d the natives of other European countries, and this stimulates interesting considerations about the sense of belonging to the European Community of the respondents and the relationship that should tie the natives of the different Community countries. A third of respondents believe that there are no elements that make a foreigner "different", while for the others the differences are mainly due to the culture, language, customs, and religion. The "declared" attitude reveals a generational difference (but not gender) against those who are foreigners: adults and elderly are more related to the stereotypes that guide the views to a certain mistrust and closure to foreigners. The new generations, however, also hold some of those views, but they seem to be in favour of greater openness. Across the latent attitudes from the factor analysis, very positive profiles emerge; the best qualities of "foreigners" are brought out. For all, regardless of gender or age, the first factor of honesty, kindness, trust, acceptance and security (to name a few) and the "personality traits" "clear" and "white" are all correlated to the idea of the \u201cforeigner\u201d. Foreigners are considered to be \u201ctoo present\u201d, and are less thought of as tourists than as people who reside in the country

Foreigners and emotional relations with the welcoming community

It is estimated that in 2016 there were about 5,4 million foreigners in Italy, including those with regular residence permits, and about 22% comes from Africa. A lot is written about foreigners present in Italy but it is more difficult to know something about their lives in the community that welcomes them; hence the goal of this research was to interview a sample of foreigners from different African countries, present in some municipalities in northern Italy. There have been many difficulties in finding people to interview, so this work can be considered only exploratory. A brief questionnaire wad administered to a non probabilistic sample of 60 foreigners: 50,0% are students and only 10,0% are unemployed. The three main reasons that led them to our country are study reasons (51.7%), the fact that they know someone (26.7%) or because they came to know that Italy is a country that welcomes foreigners (16.7%). 65.0% feel welcome in the community in which they live and to support integration 25.0% believes that the first step should be taken by foreigners while for 61.7% there should be a mutual approach. On the other hand, only 35.0% of respondents share the desire to integrate. The factor analysis applied to 17 bipolar scale referring to the perception of Italians by foreigners, brought out a very positive profiles. There are extracted five factors, with 71,6% of observed variability. The first factor suggests a fully positive and reassuring representation of Italians: it is the factor of goodness. The second is a factor associated with human warmth. The third is the factor of industriousness, the fourth of the personal dimension, and finally the factor of beauty

Il comportamento elettorale: indagine esplorativa.

This exploratory investigation is aimed to probe what factors were involved in the voting process for the specific election appointment on 4 March 2018. Two samples were interviewed, using the same questionnaire for two different groups. One, was a sample of adults aged 19 to 97, through direct interviews, the other was a sample of university students aged 19 to 28, through an online questionnaire. In the elections of 4 March, 19.3% of the sample and 8.1% of students did not vote. The main motivations were political for the first sample ("I do not believe in keeping the promises of politicians" 28.5%, "I do not recognize myself in any party/movement" 22.6%, "I do not care about politics" 22.1%) and of a political or personal nature for students ("I do not recognize myself in any party/movement" 25.2%, "I had personal commitments made previously" 16.8%, "I do not believe in the promises of politicians" 16.0%). Among those who went to vote, even if they have not done so regularly in the last 5 years, the main motivation was the recognition that voting is a right but also a duty for every citizen (78.5% of the sample and 90.3% of students). Hopes for change were also very high (45.2% and 34.6% respectively). in choosing to go to vote, poor weight had sympathy for a particular candidate (6.5% and 2.0%). There was a high percentage of well informed voters for both groups (89.2% of the first sample and 96.0% of students). The main sources of information were national and local newspapers (54.7% and 57.3%) and political broadcasts (53.6% and 45.3%). The first sample's youth and students used the internet and social media to acquire and exchange information. In fact a small percentage of people say that they have not changed their mind after listening to or reading the information (17.0% and 8.9%), some say they have strengthened their opinions (27.4% and 19.2%) or have drawn ideas for reflection (37.2% and 56.3%)

Il telefonino tra utilit\ue0 e necessit\ue0

You need to have adequate communication skills to make phone calls. Communication is very fast, it can be done anywhere and anytime, and this can cause stress but also reassurance. From the survey it appears that people have their mobile phone first and foremost to be accessible everywhere, because they can receive messages, respond to work needs and security reasons. From the factorial analysis applied to the scale of opinion it emerges that for cellular owners the first factor describes it as "antidote to solitude" and the second is related to its instrumental function. The cell phone is therefore an object not only useful for its communicative function but it becomes necessary to respond to security and to psychological tranquility