Papers by Cristiana Di Pietro
Dialoghi della Sostenibilità, 2016
Un universo da (Ri) conoscere. Ricerche e proposte per l’innovazione dei servizi socio-sanitari per la popolazione anziana, 2018
Il capitolo pone l’attenzione sul significato che “abitare la città” ha per gli anziani. Le polit... more Il capitolo pone l’attenzione sul significato che “abitare la città” ha per gli anziani. Le politiche abitative appaiono una delle sfide più importanti del nostro secolo caratterizzato da due fenomeni in particolare: l’invecchiamento della popolazione e l’urbanizzazione.
Gli attori politici sono chiamati a ridefinire il concetto di residenza per gli anziani, non più luogo in cui offrire solo cure adeguate ma luogo di opportunità sociali e di autodeterminazione all’interno della società. Si supera lo stereotipo dell’anziano vulnerabile e fragile; egli è una risorsa della quale aver cura e poiché lo spazio ne determina il benessere è importante renderlo più accessibile. Si fa partendo dall’unità fondamentale dell’ “abitare”, ossia la casa.
Il capitolo esamina le trasformazioni della società, l’importanza che l’ambiente “abilitante” assume per lo sviluppo pienamente umano della persona e si sofferma su un modello di residenzialità specifico: il co-housing. Le esperienze di abitare condiviso raccontano un modello inclusivo che può preservare l’indipendenza e l’autonomia dell’anziano, senza sradicarlo dal contesto in cui vive e dallo spazio-casa che custodisce la sua vita.
Osservatorio sulle Migrazioni a Roma e nel Lazio - Sedicesimo Rapporto, 2021
Le migrazioni costituiscono, senza dubbio, un tema cruciale dell’agenda politica degli Stati memb... more Le migrazioni costituiscono, senza dubbio, un tema cruciale dell’agenda politica degli Stati membri dell’Unione europea, soprattutto per quel che concerne la gestione dei flussi migratori, il governo del processo di integrazione e la convivenza interetnica in società sempre più multiculturali. Il processo di integrazione dei cittadini provenienti da Paesi terzi, in particolar modo, risulta oggetto di una profonda riflessione politica ben articolata dalle indicazioni che l’Ue ha sviluppato già a partire dal 2004 nel documento “Common Basic Principles for Immigrant Integration Policy”. L’Unione europea riconosce l’integrazione quale processo dinamico, bidirezionale e di lungo corso che necessita di un continuo dialogo e di un reciproco adattamento tra i cittadini provenienti da Paesi terzi e le società ospiti. Predispone, così, una serie di misure adeguate a sostenere gli Stati membri nella creazione di condizioni favorevoli alla partecipazione economica, sociale, culturale e politica degli immigrati e introduce nuovi strumenti di solidarietà, tra cui il Fondo europeo per l’integrazione dei cittadini di Paesi terzi e il Fondo europeo per i rifugiati. La struttura normativa europea è stata, tuttavia, messa alla prova nel 2015, quando l’ingente flusso di migranti forzati ha messo in crisi il sistema che l’Unione aveva delineato. Gli Stati membri, infatti, hanno privilegiato l’attuazione di misure di contenimento della mobilità dei rifugiati piuttosto che il rafforzamento/l’accelerazione di processi di integrazione già in atto. L’Unione europea ha rivolto perciò l’appello a “convogliare assieme gli sforzi europei e nazionali al fine di affrontare la questione migratoria […] in modo efficiente e nel rispetto dei principi di solidarietà e di responsabilità condivisa” che coinvolga “tutti i protagonisti: Stati membri, istituzioni dell’Unione, organizzazioni internazionali, società civile, enti locali”. A questo appello ha risposto il progetto europeo “Labour Integration for Migrants Employment” (di seguito Lime) promosso dal Centro informazione e educazione allo sviluppo (Cies onlus) in collaborazione con la Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta (Lumsa), la European Association for Local Democracy (Alda), il Centro nazionale opere salesiane - Formazione e aggiornamento professionale (Cnos-Fap), la Confederazione delle cooperative di Roma (Confcooperative Roma), l’organizzazione non governativa Guaranì e la piattaforma sociale Pinardi (Pinardi). Il progetto Lime, presentato nell’ambito dell’azione “Promote swift integration of TCNs into the labour market through strengthened cooperation and mobilisation of employers and social and economic partners” del fondo europeo “Asylum, Migration and Integration”, si è sviluppato, dal febbraio 2019, nelle realtà territoriali di Roma e Madrid, che presentano una particolare vivacità per la presenza di iniziative promosse dalla società civile nell’ambito delle politiche e dei processi di integrazione delle persone migranti. Nello specifico, il progetto ha posto al centro della sua azione tre considerazioni: a) la definizione del processo di integrazione come processo complesso, dinamico e multidimensionale, che riguarda sia la singola persona sia la comunità, ossia le relazioni che si sviluppano tra la comunità accolta e la comunità locale; b) l’importanza dell’inserimento lavorativo delle persone migranti quale elemento chiave per garantire la loro effettiva integrazione nelle società di accoglienza (ciò implica il pieno riconoscimento delle loro capacità e competenze, la non discriminazione e il raggiungimento del loro potenziale economico); c) la valorizzazione del capitale sociale/relazionale propria dei processi di collaborazione reciproca attivati e gestiti da differenti attori sociali (pubblici, privati e Terzo settore) che costituiscono reti locali. Il presente lavoro si concentrerà sull’evoluzione dell’esperienza Lime nella città di Roma e sulla resilienza che la rete romana, costituita da Cies onlus, Cnos-Fap e Confcooperative Roma, ha dimostrato dinanzi alle sfide poste dall’emergenza sanitaria da Sars-CoV-2.
Humanismo y Trabajo Social. Vol. 20, 81-108, 2021
Many empirical studies examined outcomes of material resources and subjective well-being of cohou... more Many empirical studies examined outcomes of material resources and subjective well-being of cohousing experiences. Little is known about how cohousing could affect elders' well-being in terms of "potential and feasible life-set". Following ecological model and environmental gerontology, the present study adds Nussbaum's capability approach perspective to the home environment, defined as the space of interaction among personal freedom and external facilitation or constraints.
Research by Cristiana Di Pietro
Project by Cristiana Di Pietro
How to activate and consolidate the MEIC Approach: some operational suggestions Data collected du... more How to activate and consolidate the MEIC Approach: some operational suggestions Data collected during the implementation of the LIME Project and analyzed by LUMSA University in this toolkit have also shown how the core element of a properly functioning cluster is the cooperation among stakeholders, based on authority, trust and social capital. Likewise, LIME capacity building sessions have highlighted that an efficient coordination network is key to achieve coordinated response capacity by allocating clear tasks and responsibilities to civil society organizations and public institutions covering specific dimensions of integration (like those mentioned by the EU Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion: education, employment, housing and healthcare). However, LIME capacity building sessions have also made it crystal clear the wide variety and somehow conflicting approaches to migrants' labour inclusion in Italy. Stakeholders can indeed face different challenges, and their role can vary based on operational context and existing institutional setting and multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms. Aiming at standardizing and making more efficient the multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms in the field of TCNs’ labour inclusion, the LIME Project has launched in Rome a specific Community of Interest- COI made by all relevant stakeholders working in key areas encompassing integration. While this COI is far from representing a consolidated cluster, it has shown high potential in providing the groundwork for the design, planning, and implementation of MEIC. The LIME Consortium commits itself to foster the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders in the project activities and to guarantee the replicability of the results through the creation of a Community of Interest (CoI). CoI has been enriched by employers’ associations, vocational training providers, employment services, protection systems for asylum seekers and refugees, local authorities, enterprises, CoCs, Municipalities, universities and research institutes and other civil society organisations from all over Europe. These representatives have been invited to follow the activities of the LIME project and to collaborate on mapping and sharing of existing good practices concerning job placement of young migrants. Moving from this background and building on the research findings collected and analyzed by LUMSA University18 in the framework of LIME project, and the inputs collected during the capacity building sessions implemented in 2021 in Spain, France and Italy, the following operational proposals are meant to propose an actionable approach to setting up, consolidate and running the MEIC – Migrants’ Economic Integration Cluster. LIME Project Partners recognize that there are many working cultures and a variety of approaches to include TCNs in the labour markets across the EU. Similarly, each typology of stakeholders can face different challenges demanding changing working methods to different sets of internal and external conditions. These operational proposals are therefore not prescriptive or restrictive as they are primarily intended to provide inspiration and recommendations to those stakeholders who have the ambition to strengthen coordination by improving the allocation of tasks and by clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of each involved stakeholder. Lastly, while these proposals are mainly thought for cluster activation to be done in the Italian context, if adapted, they could be equally applicable in other territorial contexts.
The research done in the framework of the LIME Project has analysed the cluster network approach ... more The research done in the framework of the LIME Project has analysed the cluster network approach to the labour market integration of third-country nationals (hereafter TCNs). This approach enables local socio-economic actors to define a shared strategy for an effective TCNs integration process. It was analysed in previous research (Klaer & Hahn, 2008) but it remains little explored in the field of TCNs’ labour inclusion. LIME moved from the definition of three key concepts: * Integration is a complex, dynamic and multi-dimensional process concerning both individual-level and community one. * Labour inclusion is a key driver to ensure effective integration of TCNs in hosting societies (in terms of full recognition of their skills and competencies, non-discrimination, and achievement of their economic potential). * Enhancing social/relational capital of the local networks is crucial to activate mutual collaboration processes co-managed by public, private and third sector actors. LUMSA University research team monitored the whole implementation of the LIME project aiming at * Analysing the governance of TCNs labour inclusion by evaluating two pilot actions concerning vocational and entrepreneurial training in Italy and Spain. * Defining a new approach of cooperation among key local actors (public, private and civil society organisations), specifically the Migrants’ Economic Integration Cluster approach. * Formulating advocacy recommendations addressing local, national and EU institutions to promote the cluster approach in the migrants’ labour market integration. Therefore, the research has been structured in three phases: * The exploratory empirical study aimed at investigating the context and the complex phenomenon of the integration process in order to define the research hypothesis and the MEIC strategic action plan. * The analysis of the performance of territorial networks for the labour inclusion of TCNs (Rome and Madrid) through qualitative comparative analysis. * The evaluation of LIME pilot actions through pre and post questionnaires and in-depth interviews with TCNs beneficiaries.
Conference Presentations by Cristiana Di Pietro
The aim of this paper is to broaden the debate on housing for the elderly beyond the mere economi... more The aim of this paper is to broaden the debate on housing for the elderly beyond the mere economic perspective of public policy that analyses the sustainability of an integrated management between health-care services and housing solutions. Housing is a crucial issue for everyone since housing satisfaction affects the quality of life. Adequate housing is prerequisite to enjoy other human rights, and this becomes even more important with regard to old people who feel house as expression of themselves, the place where they belong to and where to get successfully and actively old.
In the wake of some studies about the implementation of capabilities in social policies, this article would investigate the opportunity to conceptualise house as a vector for strengthening human capabilities of older people. Actually, Nussbaum’s approach to capabilities can be used as a valid measurement for analysing in depth the relationship between environment, well-being and flourishing worthy life.
Following a growing literature about co-housing experiences for the elderly as sustainable way of living for ageing well and active, two Italian projects, Casa alla Vela in Trento and Casa di Giorgio in Rome, have been analysed in order to explore the meaning of house as a combined capability. The main expected results are how home is important for the elderly in many different ways: it is the place where independence, participation, care, self-fulfilment, and dignity are safeguarded and improved. It is the enabling environment allowing opportunities’ space that makes people able to access to the community.
This study would contribute to broaden the debate on the opportunities that the ageing in cohousi... more This study would contribute to broaden the debate on the opportunities that the ageing in cohousing offers, examining the capabilities elder maintains and maximises. The base line assumption is represented by the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Craven Nussbaum: after identifying the fundamental rights of the elderly, the available resources and the resulting functionings are classified. Hence, a questionnaire has been designed in order to detect the capabilities of the cohousing residents.
The main expected results are that the elders preserve easily the ability to live according the life-style that they “have reason to value”, beyond the evidence that this housing model is chosen for economic reason (low income and/or house not owned) and for social reason (weakness of the family care network and/or weakness of social services; a lack of freedom in mobility and in finding cultural centres).
The health emergency caused by Sars-CoV-2 had a significant impact on social work, especially as ... more The health emergency caused by Sars-CoV-2 had a significant impact on social work, especially as concerns health services at local level. They had to face up to both unusual organizational difficulties and new kind of social needs which could not be managed in the light of consolidated procedural schemes.
The pandemic crisis, indeed, pointed out the role that social work can play in emergency, beyond the organizational and methodological issues arising from the unexpected event and the physical distance measures. This is the time for social work to deeply rethink its potential and its scope.
This paper assumes that, although overwhelmed by emergency and unpredictable consequences, social work is able to promote processes of adapting and managing uncertainty by reflecting on priorities and methods and by planning adequate interventions.
Literature has already investigated the ability of social work and, more generally, of the welfare system, not only to act as a means to access resources and / or services but also as a rebalancing factor in uncertainty context. Social work overcomes the linear and standardized schemes of classical welfare and it appears able to design new strategies of reassurance and adaptation (Castels 2003, Beck and Bauman 1999, 2006, Sennett 2004).
It could be interesting, therefore, to push forward the research focusing on the role that professionals play when catastrophic event upsets normalcy bringing about new forms of fear and uncertainty (Cattarinussi, Pelanda 1981; Frudà 1991).
In this perspective, an empirical study started in Italy and Spain aiming to analyse how and to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on social and health services at local level.
This paper presents the preliminary results of the study conducted in Italy (Lazio, Puglia and Sicily) by a quantitative survey involving social workers. Three dimensions have been investigated: changing in the organization of services in terms of method and practice; work experience during the critical phase of the Covid-19 pandemic; finally, changing in social needs and new strategies to cope with.
Social work has shown a capacity for organizational resilience, triggering individual and collective coping processes as well as orientation and capacity building.
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Papers by Cristiana Di Pietro
Gli attori politici sono chiamati a ridefinire il concetto di residenza per gli anziani, non più luogo in cui offrire solo cure adeguate ma luogo di opportunità sociali e di autodeterminazione all’interno della società. Si supera lo stereotipo dell’anziano vulnerabile e fragile; egli è una risorsa della quale aver cura e poiché lo spazio ne determina il benessere è importante renderlo più accessibile. Si fa partendo dall’unità fondamentale dell’ “abitare”, ossia la casa.
Il capitolo esamina le trasformazioni della società, l’importanza che l’ambiente “abilitante” assume per lo sviluppo pienamente umano della persona e si sofferma su un modello di residenzialità specifico: il co-housing. Le esperienze di abitare condiviso raccontano un modello inclusivo che può preservare l’indipendenza e l’autonomia dell’anziano, senza sradicarlo dal contesto in cui vive e dallo spazio-casa che custodisce la sua vita.
Research by Cristiana Di Pietro
Project by Cristiana Di Pietro
Conference Presentations by Cristiana Di Pietro
In the wake of some studies about the implementation of capabilities in social policies, this article would investigate the opportunity to conceptualise house as a vector for strengthening human capabilities of older people. Actually, Nussbaum’s approach to capabilities can be used as a valid measurement for analysing in depth the relationship between environment, well-being and flourishing worthy life.
Following a growing literature about co-housing experiences for the elderly as sustainable way of living for ageing well and active, two Italian projects, Casa alla Vela in Trento and Casa di Giorgio in Rome, have been analysed in order to explore the meaning of house as a combined capability. The main expected results are how home is important for the elderly in many different ways: it is the place where independence, participation, care, self-fulfilment, and dignity are safeguarded and improved. It is the enabling environment allowing opportunities’ space that makes people able to access to the community.
The main expected results are that the elders preserve easily the ability to live according the life-style that they “have reason to value”, beyond the evidence that this housing model is chosen for economic reason (low income and/or house not owned) and for social reason (weakness of the family care network and/or weakness of social services; a lack of freedom in mobility and in finding cultural centres).
The pandemic crisis, indeed, pointed out the role that social work can play in emergency, beyond the organizational and methodological issues arising from the unexpected event and the physical distance measures. This is the time for social work to deeply rethink its potential and its scope.
This paper assumes that, although overwhelmed by emergency and unpredictable consequences, social work is able to promote processes of adapting and managing uncertainty by reflecting on priorities and methods and by planning adequate interventions.
Literature has already investigated the ability of social work and, more generally, of the welfare system, not only to act as a means to access resources and / or services but also as a rebalancing factor in uncertainty context. Social work overcomes the linear and standardized schemes of classical welfare and it appears able to design new strategies of reassurance and adaptation (Castels 2003, Beck and Bauman 1999, 2006, Sennett 2004).
It could be interesting, therefore, to push forward the research focusing on the role that professionals play when catastrophic event upsets normalcy bringing about new forms of fear and uncertainty (Cattarinussi, Pelanda 1981; Frudà 1991).
In this perspective, an empirical study started in Italy and Spain aiming to analyse how and to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on social and health services at local level.
This paper presents the preliminary results of the study conducted in Italy (Lazio, Puglia and Sicily) by a quantitative survey involving social workers. Three dimensions have been investigated: changing in the organization of services in terms of method and practice; work experience during the critical phase of the Covid-19 pandemic; finally, changing in social needs and new strategies to cope with.
Social work has shown a capacity for organizational resilience, triggering individual and collective coping processes as well as orientation and capacity building.
Gli attori politici sono chiamati a ridefinire il concetto di residenza per gli anziani, non più luogo in cui offrire solo cure adeguate ma luogo di opportunità sociali e di autodeterminazione all’interno della società. Si supera lo stereotipo dell’anziano vulnerabile e fragile; egli è una risorsa della quale aver cura e poiché lo spazio ne determina il benessere è importante renderlo più accessibile. Si fa partendo dall’unità fondamentale dell’ “abitare”, ossia la casa.
Il capitolo esamina le trasformazioni della società, l’importanza che l’ambiente “abilitante” assume per lo sviluppo pienamente umano della persona e si sofferma su un modello di residenzialità specifico: il co-housing. Le esperienze di abitare condiviso raccontano un modello inclusivo che può preservare l’indipendenza e l’autonomia dell’anziano, senza sradicarlo dal contesto in cui vive e dallo spazio-casa che custodisce la sua vita.
In the wake of some studies about the implementation of capabilities in social policies, this article would investigate the opportunity to conceptualise house as a vector for strengthening human capabilities of older people. Actually, Nussbaum’s approach to capabilities can be used as a valid measurement for analysing in depth the relationship between environment, well-being and flourishing worthy life.
Following a growing literature about co-housing experiences for the elderly as sustainable way of living for ageing well and active, two Italian projects, Casa alla Vela in Trento and Casa di Giorgio in Rome, have been analysed in order to explore the meaning of house as a combined capability. The main expected results are how home is important for the elderly in many different ways: it is the place where independence, participation, care, self-fulfilment, and dignity are safeguarded and improved. It is the enabling environment allowing opportunities’ space that makes people able to access to the community.
The main expected results are that the elders preserve easily the ability to live according the life-style that they “have reason to value”, beyond the evidence that this housing model is chosen for economic reason (low income and/or house not owned) and for social reason (weakness of the family care network and/or weakness of social services; a lack of freedom in mobility and in finding cultural centres).
The pandemic crisis, indeed, pointed out the role that social work can play in emergency, beyond the organizational and methodological issues arising from the unexpected event and the physical distance measures. This is the time for social work to deeply rethink its potential and its scope.
This paper assumes that, although overwhelmed by emergency and unpredictable consequences, social work is able to promote processes of adapting and managing uncertainty by reflecting on priorities and methods and by planning adequate interventions.
Literature has already investigated the ability of social work and, more generally, of the welfare system, not only to act as a means to access resources and / or services but also as a rebalancing factor in uncertainty context. Social work overcomes the linear and standardized schemes of classical welfare and it appears able to design new strategies of reassurance and adaptation (Castels 2003, Beck and Bauman 1999, 2006, Sennett 2004).
It could be interesting, therefore, to push forward the research focusing on the role that professionals play when catastrophic event upsets normalcy bringing about new forms of fear and uncertainty (Cattarinussi, Pelanda 1981; Frudà 1991).
In this perspective, an empirical study started in Italy and Spain aiming to analyse how and to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on social and health services at local level.
This paper presents the preliminary results of the study conducted in Italy (Lazio, Puglia and Sicily) by a quantitative survey involving social workers. Three dimensions have been investigated: changing in the organization of services in terms of method and practice; work experience during the critical phase of the Covid-19 pandemic; finally, changing in social needs and new strategies to cope with.
Social work has shown a capacity for organizational resilience, triggering individual and collective coping processes as well as orientation and capacity building.