Significant variation across and within OECD countries reflects the diverse roles that non-state actors can play in the reception and integration of asylum seekers. This variation can be explained by the differences in the organisation of welfare service delivery, the various national schemes...

This paper examines whether immigration can operate as a counter-process of depopulation and economic recession. Based on the comparative analysis of four case studies in Belluno (Italy), Klagenfurt-Villach (Austria), Dalarna (Sweden), and Haßberge (Germany), it analyses the key socio-economic...

Italian abstract: A partire da una ricostruzione dei principali limiti degli attuali sistemi di welfare locale, nel paper vengono approfonditi gli elementi alla base di un diverso modello di sanità territoriale, fondato sull’integrazione fra ambiti sociale e sanitario e sulla partecipazione...