Recent Perceptions of Rural Australia in Italian and Italian Australian Narrative

Italian settlement in rural and outback areas of Australia during the late 1800s and early 1900s has remained a largely unsung saga while most Italians migrating to Australia after 1947 ultimately settled in urban areas. Few narrative writers have written about non-urban Australia in substantially social realist terms. More recently, this trend had taken a post-modern perspective in a few Italian Australian and Italian writers who depict the Australian outback as providing a solution to the protagonists' life quest and promote a discourse on nature as a dynamic, positive and vital element that contrasts with man's static negativism

Criminological analysis of the principle of judicial opportunity of the art. 57.7 of Spanish Immigration Law: Waiving of criminal proceedings and primacy of administrative expulsion

Spanish Immigration Law provides (art. 57.7) that where a foreigner, on which is pending an administrative expulsion order, is accused in a penal procedure with a misdemeanour or felony which entails a punishment less than six years of imprisonment or any alternative penal sanction, administrative authority will request to the criminal judge to renounce continuing with the penal procedure and allowed the expulsion, and judge will renounce unless some circumstances will be appreciated to justify the continuation of the process. This regulation, manifestation of the principle of judicial opportunity, has been widely analyzed from a legal perspective, but little research has been done about its effective implementation in practice and about the costs and benefits derived from this ius puniendi's renunciation from the point of view of the purposes of punishment. With the overall aim of deepening the knowledge of this topic, the research we are doing aims to: 1) determine the prevalence of its application; 2) identify the profile of foreigners and offenses for which it is applied; and 3) identify which criteria are guiding the assessment of the court decision. Our hypothesis are that: i) there are some dysfunctions that hampered the application and also the knowledge of the exact number of authorizations granted and that ii) in practice, the assessment of costs and benefits that implies authorization in each case, is omitted. To achieve the first objective we are reviewing official statistics and judiciary/prosecutors instructions and conducting interviews with key stakeholders. To achieve the second and the third objectives, we are reviewing a sample of selected case files of trial courts of Madrid and Malaga, which also allows us to make comparisons between practices of both jurisdictions. The results obtained would allow us to develop good practices that could be useful for legal actors in the assessment of approval or denial the expulsion.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Innovación en la administración pública portuguesa para la plena participación de las personas con dicapacidad

Comunicação apresentada no XVI Congresso International do Centro Latino Americano para el Desarollo (CLAD), Asunción, Paraguay de 8 a 11 Novembro 2011

Recent Italian-Australian narrative Fiction by first generation writers

The publication in 2008 of the English version of Emilio Gabbrielli’s (2000) novel Polenta e Goanna and the new re-introduced edition of Rosa Cappiello’s Oh Lucky Country in 2009 constitutes something of a landmark in Italian- Australian writing. Cappiello’s novel is now the second most-published work by a first generation Italian-Australian writer after Raffaello Carboni’s (1855) Eureka Stockade. Although Italians in Australia have been writing about their experiences since the mid 1800s and have produced texts such as those by Salvado (1851), Ercole (1932) and Nibbi (1937), a coherent corpus of Italian-Australian writing has developed only after the post-World War Two migration boom which saw some 360,000 Italian-born migrants entering Australia between 1947 and 1972

Italo-Australians during the second world war: Some perceptions of internment

The entry of Italy into the Second World War brought considerable disruption to the over thirty thousand strong Italo-Australian community whose presence was seen by the Australian authorities as a serious potential threat to national security. About 4,700 mainly male Italo-Australians were incarcerated in internment camps while women and children were left to fend for themselves in a highly hostile environment. Although a significant social-historical phenomenon, very few and at best highly partial studies (such as Bosworth and Ugolini 1992, Cresciani 1993, Martinuzzi O’Brien 1993, 2002, in press) have been produced on the subject. Many Italo-Australians however, have tended to reflect, often from a victimological viewpoint, on the internment experience in their memoirs and reminiscences. This paper provides an additional dimension to the topic by examining oral and written accounts produced by some Italo-Australian protagonists of the internment experience with a view to considering how their albeit subjective perceptions provide a particular viewpoint of one way in which Australia reacted to the events of war

The Perverse in Historical Perception: Anne Frank and Neutral Milk Hotel in the Aeroplane over the Sea

The cover art for Neutral Milk Hotel\u27s In The Aeroplane over the Sea reproduces a turn-of-the-century postcard that depicts bathers in an ocean. In the foreground, the figure of a woman leans propped against a railing. For the album, her head has been replaced with a well-worn drumhead. She and the nearest bather have an arm raised. From behind the woman, another raised arm of an otherwise subtended bather appears. Two figures farther in the distance are in the water up to their heads. The blithe face of the nearest bather looks up toward the woman, whose own face has become a blank. In other words, it is just another weird indie rock album cover. Or so one might be inclined to think before hearing the album. After listening closely to the album, however, the cover art and one\u27s attitude toward it may change in ways that are symptomatic and thematic of the music and lyrics themselves. Then it is difficult to shake the conflicting feelings that the respective figures are either making a blithe and a blank fascist salute or, perhaps more disturbingly, that they are blithely and blankly drowning and hailing the viewer for help, a viewer who probably feels quite powerless to help them. After all, this is a vintage postcard, and if they were drowning, they must have drowned long ago. There must be nothing that we can do. We had better not fall in love with them

Expressions of the Calabrian diaspora in Calabrian Australian writing

Although a number of studies on Italian Australian literature have been produced they have to date taken little account of the perception of the diverse experiences of migrants from different Italian regions which display substantial linguistic and cultural diversity and have developed literary cultures both different from and coincidental to Italian national literary culture. The only extensive study that has examined the literary culture of a regional Italian migrant group in Australia is Rando La Cava (1983) which explores the oral dialect literature of the Aeolian communities in Wollongong, Sydney and Melbourne. Some general studies on Italian Australian literature have dealt with a few individual first generation Calabrian authors such as poet Luigi Strano and prose writer Alfredo Strano (both are cited in the Auslit database although their records need substantial updating) as well as the work of some second and subsequent generations writers such as John Bono and Teresa Crea (both also found in the Auslit database). This paper proposes to explore the extent to which texts produced by writers who are currently known to be of Calabrian origin demonstrate marked characteristics of what might be termed a Calabrian-Australian migration experience. Its point of departure are the theoretical issues raised by Joseph Pivato and Snwja Gunew relating to the attendant cultural dislocations of writers whose geographical and/or cultural traditions are based in CALD contexts and proposing a return to questions of both origins and belonging given that interrogations of the national emerge from both local communities and global diasporas. The way ahead in terms of analysing cultural texts of any kind seems to be to denaturalise the classificatory categories invoked to stabilize and legitimate all types of nation-buildin

Like the \u3cem\u3eOdyssey\u3c/em\u3e, Only Different: Olympian Omnipotence versus Karmic Adjustment in Pynchon\u27s \u3cem\u3eVineland\u3c/em\u3e

In Vineland, Pynchon recalls the Odyssey in order to foreground crucial differences from its Western model of comprehending narrative outcomes as acts of Olympian or divine omnipotence. Instead, Vineland does something innovative with narrative power, establishing specific karmic character relationships that potentially ameliorate personal and national grievances and suffering and broadening our understanding of narrative power and outcomes beyond the heavy hand of judgment in order to register gentle karmic nudges

Comparison of Business Motivation Model and Intentional Distribution

Eesmärkide modelleerimine on tähtis, et mõista erinevate tarkvara või arhitektuuri valikute tagamaid. Praegu leidub mitmeid eesmärkidele suunatud modelleerimise võtteid. Selles töös on kasutatud semiotic quality framework’i, et võrrelda Business Motivation Model’i (BMM) ja Intentional Distribution’i (i*) kvaliteeti üldistatud tasandil. Töös hinnatakse BMM-i ja i*-i keele kvaliteeti ja mudeli kvaliteeti. Lisaks kirjeldatakse kuidas BMM-i ja i*-i keeli saab kasutada äri protsessi mudeli, siin business processes model and notation, tegemisel.Goal modelling is an important activity to reason why different software decisions are taken, or architecture solutions are implemented. Currently there exist a number of goal-oriented modelling approaches. In this thesis, the semiotic quality framework is applied to compare the quality of the business motivation model (BMM) and Intentional Distribution (i*) modelling languages at the coarse-grained level. The thesis reports on the BMM and i* language quality and model quality. The thesis also presents observations on how the BMM and i* modelling languages could be used to reason on and support construction of the business process models expressed in business processes model and notation