LOCAL YOUTH, GLOBAL FUTURES. EXPERIENCES, ASPIRATIONS AND CITIZENSHIP OF YOUNG CRICKETERS OF MIGRANT ORIGIN IN ITALY

This contribution discusses the relationship between sport and citizenship by exploring the citizenship paths described by young cricketers of Bangladeshi origin living in Venice (Italy). In particular, it focuses on the processes of misrecognition, enacted both by natives and their older countrymen, that these youths are suff ering in their everyday life and that are rooted and refl ected in their playing cricket in the neighbourhood. Starting from these premises, their aspired citizenship paths are described, revealing how the European passport, often an aspiration in itself, may become a passe-partout to react to misrecognition, allowing them to describe aspirations, refl ected also in their sports practices, that are nationally, transnationally and globally deployed and that may aim, although through an individual claim, to restore the disruptions lived by the whole Bangladeshi diaspora. In this sense, within their distinctive aspired citizenship paths, the borders between distinction/integration with their older countrymen and native people are blurred, thus revealing their willingness to enjoy the same rights as their native peers as well as to overcome the diff erential inclusion suff ered by their parents

Finding New Ways for Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Inclusion. A Reflexive Analysis of Practices Developed by the Third Sector and Civil Society in Trentino

This essay aims at analysing the role played by civil society organisations in refugees’ social and labour inclusion, highlighting the assumptions that drive their ac- tion and the challenges they are facing in the light of the recent political changes in the Italian scenario. The social realities investigated spare no effort for migrants’ integration, sometimes finding solutions beyond the reception system. In this paper, we discuss their practices, analysing the borders (juridical, political, territorial, corporative, social, insti- tutional, symbolic) they act and react, reflecting also on the assumptions that drive their actions, and crossing them with migrants’ assumptions and biographical trajectories, to explore how they intersect, impacting on their migration and integration paths

CRICKETERS TRA INCLUSIONE E DISTINZIONE . P ERCORSI E ASPIRAZIONI DI CITTADINANZA DI GIOVANI BANGLADESI A VENEZIA

This article aims to analyze the relationship between sport, citizenship and social inclusion, experienced by young adults of immigrant origin, in Italy. Specifically, it will focus on the aspirations and paths of citizenship of young cricketers of Bangladeshi origin, living in the City of Venice. Starting from 15 in-depth interviews with these young adults, it emerges how the aspired Italian citizenship and, therefore, the European passport can become, on the one hand, a tool to react to the misrecognition, practiced by native peers and the fellow country-men of the generation of their parents, and, on the other hand, an access key for potential transnational mobility. In other words, the acquisition of Italian citizenship would be configured both as a path aimed at social inclusion at the local level, and as an attempt at distinction deployed at European and international level

DALLA MANO ALLA BOCCA. La costruzione sociale delle appartenenze attraverso le pratiche alimentari. Un caso studio

Food-related cultural constructions and representations are central elements in the experiences of migrant women and men in the context of their daily life, perceived as a place to “feel at home” or, on the contrary, as space of the experience of exile. This article deepen the ways in which food and food-related narratives may acquire different meanings on the basis of social, biographical, family, migratory, generational and gender placements of the social actors: embedded identity practices or element of generational conflicts, space of comfort or terrain of clash, forms of symbolic resistance or symbols of social downward mobility and degradation