The European Migration System and Global Justice. A First Appraisal

Migration is at the heart of the current political debate in Europe. Moreover, the migration crisis has disclosed a number of normative and ethical issues connected to the current management of migration in the EU. This report provides a preliminary insight into the EU’s policy on migration. It looks specifically at the terms the EU chooses, the definitions it devises and the concepts and understandings it endorses in its migration policies. In order to grasp the actual working of an emerging EU Migration System of Governance (EUMSG), the same terms, concepts and definitions are also examined with reference to a set of national cases: Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, Greece and Norway

Urban informality and confinement: toward a relational framework

In the 21st century, a growing number of people live ‘informal’ lives within fissures between legality and informality. Concomitantly, power relations are increasingly expressed through devices of confinement. While urban informality and confinement are on the rise often occurring simultaneously, scholars have so far studied them separately. By contrast, this article proposes a new framework for analysing urban informality and confinement relationally. It generates new insights into the role of informality in the (re)production of confinement and, vice versa, the role of confinement in shaping informal practices. While these insights are valuable for urban studies in general, the article charts new lines of research on urban marginality. It also discusses how the six articles included in this special issue signal the heuristic potential of this relational framework by empirically examining distinct urban configurations of ‘confined informalities’ and ‘informal confinements’ across the Global North and the Global South

"Polimeri da Fonti Rinnovabili nell'Imballaggio", Dipartimento di Chimica G. Ciamician, Universit\ue0 di Bologna, 14 Gennaio

L\u2019utilizzo nell\u2019imballaggio di polimeri naturali o polimerizzati da bio-monomeri (\u201cbio-based polymers\u201d) \ue8 diventato sempre pi\uf9 frequente e richiama una attenzione crescente dell\u2019industria e del consumatore, rispondendo sia a necessit\ue0 economiche che di tutela dell\u2019ambiente. I materiali basati su molecole biologiche provenienti da fonti rinnovabili possono rispondere a diverse problematiche poste all\u2019attenzione della comunit\ue0 scientifica, produttiva e dell\u2019autorit\ue0 politica, che vanno dal reperimento della materia prima, ai requisiti di inserimento in un ciclo naturale di trasformazione biologica, all\u2019abbattimento dell\u2019immissione di CO2 nell\u2019ambiente. In questa logica rientra anche il possibile utilizzo di scarti provenienti dal settore agricolo che rappresenta una potenzialit\ue0 con interessanti risvolti di carattere economico. Tuttavia, le problematiche connesse ai processi di produzione e di trasformazione dei \u201cbio-based polymers\u201d necessitano di una messa a punto anche in relazione ad un confronto delle propriet\ue0 di questi materiali polimerici con quelle dei polimeri utilizzati tradizionalmente. La giornata si propone pertanto di affrontare la tematica delle propriet\ue0 dei polimeri basati su biomolecole gi\ue0 impiegati o potenzialmente utilizzabili nel campo dell\u2019imballaggio e delle problematiche connesse con la loro lavorazione. Si discuteranno gli aspetti pi\uf9 rilevanti dal punto di vista industriale ed economico. Verranno anche presi in considerazione esempi specifici di applicazione di questi biomateriali sotto forma di espansi, film o termoformati

EU Security Governance: Putting the ‘Security’ Back in

The central aim of this article is to discuss the question of how we can understand and explain the European Union (EU) as a security actor in essence, to elaborate on the current literature on security governance in order to provide a more theoretically driven analysis of the EU in security. Our contention is that whilst the current literature on security governance in Europe is conceptually rich, there still remains somewhat of a gap between those that do ‘security governance’ and those that focus on ‘security’ per se. We argue that a synergy or at least a conversation between these two literatures is required in order to enrich further the study of the EU as globalregional security actor