Asher D Colombo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107954 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Asher D Colombo |
| PRENOMES | Asher D |
| SOBRENOME | Colombo |
| ASSINATURA | COLOMBO A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4928-2961 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals
A growing strand of studies suggests that in contemporary societies adults have long been engaged in a process of protecting children from death and the experiences surrounding it. This raises questions about the level of protection children are subjected to. Based on a survey of 2000 Italians, the article analyses people born between 1929 and 2013 about two childhood experiences: exposure to the sight of a corpse and attendance at a funeral. Thr…
Data and Trends in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, and Some Related Demographic Issues
Although considerable gains in survival have been observed in developed countries, particularly in the last stretch of life, part of these additional years of life are lived in bad health. In this context, a number of actions/inactions that limit or may limit life span are becoming increasingly common. Demography and quantitative sociology are well-positioned to make a significant contribution to the measurement of the consistency of different en…
Before and after October 7
Displacement of Death from Home to Hospital in Historical Perspective
The process of changing the location of death from home to hospital in Italy between 1883 and 2013 occurred as part of a wider, century-long shift in the attitude toward death in Western societies. A longitudinal analysis of data collected in Italian provinces, using random intercept models, reveals the extent to which the displacement of death was the result of demographical, socio-structural, and cultural processes and the extent to which the i…
Why Do We Go to the Cemetery? Religion, Civicness, and the Cult of the Dead in Twenty-First Century Italy
Background While attitudes towards death and dying have attracted much scholarly attention, surprisingly little is known about the practice of visiting cemeteries. According to the secularization thesis, the fate of cemetery visits conforms with declining church attendance. A de-secularization theory suggests that, in the modern world, cemeteries increasingly became spaces for a society of families rather than for a religious community, suggestin…
Immigration Italian Style, 1977-2018
Today, in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and Greece, the incidence of the foreign population is entirely comparable to that of the more traditional European reception countries. Only forty years ago, however, the foreign population in these five southern European countries was decidedly modest. The migration balance with foreign countries has become positive since the 1970s, inverting a secular trend. However, after the migration boom at the begin…
Why Europe has never been united (not even in the afterworld)
An intriguing paradox emerges in the history of disposal of the dead in Europe: the countries (Italy, Germany, England, and Scotland) where, in the last quarter of the 19th century, cremation was introduced first, were the last ones to see the diffusion of cremation as a mass phenomenon. The contrary was true where-for instance, in Switzerland and in Denmark-the start of cremation was initially delayed. Here the growth was very fast. To explain t…
Fuori controllo? Miti e realtà dell'immigrazione in Italia
Invariabilmente liquidate dagli uni come lassiste, dagli altri come liberticide, in Italia le misure di controllo dell'immigrazione sono oggetto di opposte mitologie a fini di battaglia politica. Ma dalla Turco-Napolitano alla Bossi-Fini c'è stata, di fatto, una sostanziale continuità nella gestione dell'immigrazione, affidata soprattutto a sanatorie che sono prassi generalizzata anche nel resto d'Europa. La novità maggiore degli ultimi anni l'in…
They call me a housekeeper, but I do everything.’ Who are domestic workers today in Italy and what do they do
This article explores a number of aspects of paid domestic work in contemporary Italy and recent changes in that sector. The first section presents the distinguishing characteristics of paid domestic workers, showing that the image of a non-Italian woman, originally from an underdeveloped country, actually distorts a more complex and differentiated reality. The subsequent section analyzes the way that paid domestic work is organized, and in parti…
The flows and the flood
Since the start of the debate on immigration in Italy there has been considerable interest in analysing the ways in which the public discourse on immigration has changed over time. This article examines the changes that have taken place in the period from 1969 to 2001. It is based on systematic study of the principal weekly news magazines (1969–1981) and on the daily press (1982–2001). It demonstrates significant changes in the ways in which immi…
Italian immigration
This article reconstructs the historical development of foreign settlement in Italy. It shows how Italy is part of a number of different migratory patterns, some of which are interconnected, while others are quite strongly differentiated. This diversity means that the standard images that link Italian immigration with a high degree of social marginalization do not correspond to the more complex realities, and by focusing on short-term aspects sim…
Hope and despair
This article presents the results of research conducted in Milan in 1993 and 1994, collecting life stories among Algerian immigrants involved in petty crimes such as shoplifting and pickpocketing. Against a broad picture of the presence of crime among foreigners in Italy based on official sources, the article reconstructs the social and familial contexts of the immigrants interviewed, analyzes the ways they arrived and settled, and why they chose…
Italian immigration
This article reconstructs the historical development of foreign settlement in Italy. It shows how Italy is part of a number of different migratory patterns, some of which are interconnected, while others are quite strongly differentiated. This diversity means that the standard images that link Italian immigration with a high degree of social marginalization do not correspond to the more complex realities, and by focusing on short-term aspects sim…
The flows and the flood
Since the start of the debate on immigration in Italy there has been considerable interest in analysing the ways in which the public discourse on immigration has changed over time. This article examines the changes that have taken place in the period from 1969 to 2001. It is based on systematic study of the principal weekly news magazines (1969–1981) and on the daily press (1982–2001). It demonstrates significant changes in the ways in which immi…
Immigration Italian Style, 1977-2018
Today, in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and Greece, the incidence of the foreign population is entirely comparable to that of the more traditional European reception countries. Only forty years ago, however, the foreign population in these five southern European countries was decidedly modest. The migration balance with foreign countries has become positive since the 1970s, inverting a secular trend. However, after the migration boom at the begin…
They call me a housekeeper, but I do everything.’ Who are domestic workers today in Italy and what do they do
This article explores a number of aspects of paid domestic work in contemporary Italy and recent changes in that sector. The first section presents the distinguishing characteristics of paid domestic workers, showing that the image of a non-Italian woman, originally from an underdeveloped country, actually distorts a more complex and differentiated reality. The subsequent section analyzes the way that paid domestic work is organized, and in parti…
Why Europe has never been united (not even in the afterworld)
An intriguing paradox emerges in the history of disposal of the dead in Europe: the countries (Italy, Germany, England, and Scotland) where, in the last quarter of the 19th century, cremation was introduced first, were the last ones to see the diffusion of cremation as a mass phenomenon. The contrary was true where-for instance, in Switzerland and in Denmark-the start of cremation was initially delayed. Here the growth was very fast. To explain t…
Hope and despair
This article presents the results of research conducted in Milan in 1993 and 1994, collecting life stories among Algerian immigrants involved in petty crimes such as shoplifting and pickpocketing. Against a broad picture of the presence of crime among foreigners in Italy based on official sources, the article reconstructs the social and familial contexts of the immigrants interviewed, analyzes the ways they arrived and settled, and why they chose…
Hope and despair
This article presents the results of research conducted in Milan in 1993 and 1994, collecting life stories among Algerian immigrants involved in petty crimes such as shoplifting and pickpocketing. Against a broad picture of the presence of crime among foreigners in Italy based on official sources, the article reconstructs the social and familial contexts of the immigrants interviewed, analyzes the ways they arrived and settled, and why they chose…
The flows and the flood
Since the start of the debate on immigration in Italy there has been considerable interest in analysing the ways in which the public discourse on immigration has changed over time. This article examines the changes that have taken place in the period from 1969 to 2001. It is based on systematic study of the principal weekly news magazines (1969–1981) and on the daily press (1982–2001). It demonstrates significant changes in the ways in which immi…
Italian immigration
This article reconstructs the historical development of foreign settlement in Italy. It shows how Italy is part of a number of different migratory patterns, some of which are interconnected, while others are quite strongly differentiated. This diversity means that the standard images that link Italian immigration with a high degree of social marginalization do not correspond to the more complex realities, and by focusing on short-term aspects sim…
They call me a housekeeper, but I do everything.’ Who are domestic workers today in Italy and what do they do
This article explores a number of aspects of paid domestic work in contemporary Italy and recent changes in that sector. The first section presents the distinguishing characteristics of paid domestic workers, showing that the image of a non-Italian woman, originally from an underdeveloped country, actually distorts a more complex and differentiated reality. The subsequent section analyzes the way that paid domestic work is organized, and in parti…
Fuori controllo? Miti e realtà dell'immigrazione in Italia
Invariabilmente liquidate dagli uni come lassiste, dagli altri come liberticide, in Italia le misure di controllo dell'immigrazione sono oggetto di opposte mitologie a fini di battaglia politica. Ma dalla Turco-Napolitano alla Bossi-Fini c'è stata, di fatto, una sostanziale continuità nella gestione dell'immigrazione, affidata soprattutto a sanatorie che sono prassi generalizzata anche nel resto d'Europa. La novità maggiore degli ultimi anni l'in…
Why Europe has never been united (not even in the afterworld)
An intriguing paradox emerges in the history of disposal of the dead in Europe: the countries (Italy, Germany, England, and Scotland) where, in the last quarter of the 19th century, cremation was introduced first, were the last ones to see the diffusion of cremation as a mass phenomenon. The contrary was true where-for instance, in Switzerland and in Denmark-the start of cremation was initially delayed. Here the growth was very fast. To explain t…
Immigration Italian Style, 1977-2018
Today, in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta and Greece, the incidence of the foreign population is entirely comparable to that of the more traditional European reception countries. Only forty years ago, however, the foreign population in these five southern European countries was decidedly modest. The migration balance with foreign countries has become positive since the 1970s, inverting a secular trend. However, after the migration boom at the begin…
Why Do We Go to the Cemetery? Religion, Civicness, and the Cult of the Dead in Twenty-First Century Italy
Background While attitudes towards death and dying have attracted much scholarly attention, surprisingly little is known about the practice of visiting cemeteries. According to the secularization thesis, the fate of cemetery visits conforms with declining church attendance. A de-secularization theory suggests that, in the modern world, cemeteries increasingly became spaces for a society of families rather than for a religious community, suggestin…
Displacement of Death from Home to Hospital in Historical Perspective
The process of changing the location of death from home to hospital in Italy between 1883 and 2013 occurred as part of a wider, century-long shift in the attitude toward death in Western societies. A longitudinal analysis of data collected in Italian provinces, using random intercept models, reveals the extent to which the displacement of death was the result of demographical, socio-structural, and cultural processes and the extent to which the i…
Data and Trends in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, and Some Related Demographic Issues
Although considerable gains in survival have been observed in developed countries, particularly in the last stretch of life, part of these additional years of life are lived in bad health. In this context, a number of actions/inactions that limit or may limit life span are becoming increasingly common. Demography and quantitative sociology are well-positioned to make a significant contribution to the measurement of the consistency of different en…
Before and after October 7
Educating death. Children of five generations confronting dead and funerals
A growing strand of studies suggests that in contemporary societies adults have long been engaged in a process of protecting children from death and the experiences surrounding it. This raises questions about the level of protection children are subjected to. Based on a survey of 2000 Italians, the article analyses people born between 1929 and 2013 about two childhood experiences: exposure to the sight of a corpse and attendance at a funeral. Thr…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · History (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Demography (4 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 obras) · Immigration (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras)