Cohort: ESOL 41

Topic of the thesis:  The role of community networks in the occupational trajectories of migrant descendants in Italy.

Abstract: This research project intends to investigate the labor trajectories of second generations in Italy, thus delving into a hitherto under-studied topic. Specifically, it will analyse the role - often ambivalent - that community networks play within these trajectories and, in particular, in the mechanisms of entry to the labor market and in the paths to professional success. Moreover, given the upward socioeconomic mobility function attributed to self-employment by traditional studies on first generation immigrants (Panichella & Ambrosini, 2023), the research will be conducted while maintaining a distinction between self-employment and subordinate jobs, in order to understand how ethnic networks affect the dynamics related to one and the other. The aim of the project will therefore be to produce significant evidence on the working condition and actual level of integration of second generations in Italy, integrating social stratification and migration studies. The decision to take as the main dimension of analysis the role of community networks, identifying the ways, reasons and timing in which the children of immigrants decide to rely on them or not in their career paths, will allow to identify some of the strategies of employment success deployed by second generations. The research design, with a qualitative approach, involves the comparative analysis of the two most numerous communities in the selected empirical context, that of the Municipality of Milan.

Research interests: Immigration and structural assimilation of immigrants; labour market dynamics; social networks; social stratification and mobility

Graduated from: Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Degrees obtained: MA  in "Lavoro, Cittadinanza sociale, Interculturalità"; Master in "Global Marketing, Comunicazione & Made in Italy"; BA in "Lingue, Civiltà e Scienze del Linguaggio" - Curriculum politico internazionale
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