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As migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on migrants' childcare arrangements have focused on parental use of formal childcare rather than on different informal childcare solutions by analysing only families with preschool-age children. Italy poses an interesting case study because its welfare system is characterised by a familistic model of care, based on solidarity between generations. In familistic countries, migrants' childcare solutions are more constrained. In this study, we analysed differences in informal childcare needs and arrangements for children younger than 14 between Italians and migrants from different countries of origin. We merged two surveys conducted by the Italian National Statistics Institute in 2011–2012: 'Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens', a sample of households with at least one migrant with foreign citizenship, and 'Multiscopo—Aspects of Daily Life', a sample of households in Italy. We found that household composition and parents' employment status play an important role in shaping informal childcare arrangements. Overall, migrants are less likely to use informal childcare, especially grandparents, than Italians but when they do, they rely more on other relatives and non-relatives than Italians. Moreover, differences emerge across migrant subgroups. This study is the first in Italy to contribute to an understanding of the role of migrant status in determining parents' childcare arrangements for children up to 13 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ageing and migration are two of Europe's fundamental demographic processes, challenging a wide range of social policies. Their intersection generates a wide taxonomy of types of individuals, from the most well-off and active ones to those more deprived and marginalised and for whom being old and having a migration background represents a double jeopardy. Yet in discussions of the 'demographic time bomb' of ageing, the special circumstances of ageing migrants are rarely recognised. Thus far, in Europe, very little is known about ageing populations with a migratory background, and this is even more true for Italy, that turned into an immigration country only in the late 1980s and where older migrants are a neglected, although growing, group in the Italian population. In this paper, we unpack ageing migrants' wellbeing by focusing on life satisfaction, as a broader indicator of individual's wellbeing; in particular, we analyse the effect of migration experiences on migrants' perception of the quality of life in old age. We use data from the Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens survey (2011–2012) and build several indicators related to different structural and socio-cultural dimensions of integration to analyse different patterns of association with life satisfaction among different groups of ageing migrants in Italy. Our study has important implications form both theoretical and policy perspective as it contributes to the advancement of original knowledge on the factors that shape wellbeing in later life in a context of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we address the measurement of vulnerability at municipality level, by using novel non-aggregative tools for the construction of synthetic indicators and for the extraction of rankings, based on the theory of partially ordered sets. We compare the results of the non-aggregative procedure to those provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, through the Index of Social and Material Vulnerability (applied to 2011 census data) and show that, although the overall pictures rendered by the two approaches are very similar, they are not equivalent, some local areas being resolved and some municipalities being ranked differently. The synthetic vulnerability scores are complemented with a measure of the degree of diversity of the vulnerability patterns, to give a more faithful picture of the complexity of the phenomenon and provide policy-makers with a more realistic view on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we apply the novel Fuzzy First-Order Dominance (F-FOD) methodology to rank migrant subpopulations in Lombardy (Italy), in terms of multidimensional poverty and social fragility, for the year 2014, with the purpose to possibly provide useful support to policy-makers, in targeting relief interventions from poverty and discomfort. The F-FOD methodology allows for the direct comparison of different distributions of poverty and fragility, assessed by means of suitable ordinal multi-indicator systems, so extending to this more complex setting, the usual univariate first-order dominance criterion. It also provides complimentary "incomparability" scores, to assess to what extent the final rankings are reliable or instead forcing. It turns out that the levels of poverty and fragility of migrant subpopulations are quite different and, in particular, that the time since migrations has a key impact, on the identification of most critical cases, which typically involve recently migrated people. Evidence also emerges that the temporal poverty/fragility trajectories of migrants, distinguished by country of origin, follow different paths, suggesting how policy interventions must be properly, and differently, tuned to be effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the determinants of sexual satisfaction among Italian young men and women at the beginning of their adulthood, taking into account the different stages of sentimental and sexual transitions. We based the analyses on the data collected in 2017 by the SELFY Survey on a sample of 7842 university students in Italy. Results of the logistic regression models highlight that, above all, sexual satisfaction is positively associated with the frequency of intercourse within a stable and exclusive relationship. Furthermore, results highlight the essential role of all transitions, sexual and sentimental, in enhancing sexual satisfaction, both in a positive and negative direction. Religion has a positive effect too, but only among students who have not yet had intercourse, expressing a protective effect of the adherence to beliefs. Significant differences between young men and women emerged mainly concerning performance, other conditions being equal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present a multidimensional fuzzy analysis of the levels and the patterns of poverty and social fragility of migrants' families, in the Italian region of Lombardy, in year 2014. Migrants' poverty emerges as a complex trait, better described as a stratification of nuanced patterns than in black and white terms; Lombard migrants are in fact affected, to different extents, by "a diffused sharing of deprivation facets" and cannot be trivially split into deprived and non-deprived. The paper employs innovative data analysis tools from the Theory of Partially Ordered Sets; compared to mainstream monetary approaches, this leads to more realistic estimates of poverty diffusion and eliminates some well-known biases of standard evaluation procedures, providing strong support to the use of partial order concepts and tools in social evaluation studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy and Spain, as countries of recent immigration and high irregularity rates, have struggled to adapt their statistical system, especially their population registers, to adequately reflect the presence of an increasing number of immigrants in their territory. The population registers of the two countries have adapted differently to these changing realities: Spain introduced significant improvements in Padrón which have increased its coverage and accuracy. This is still not the case in Italy, making it necessary to resort to non-random sampling methods. The paper discusses the methodological implications of these differences and evaluates different methodological solutions based on both random and non-random sampling methods in both countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unfortunately, the following articles were by mistake included in other issues but are part of the Special Issue on Well-Being and Territory: Methods and Strategies "Tomaselli, V., Giuffrida, G., Gozzo, S. et al. The thirty papers published offer an interesting overview on the measurement of well-being from a multidisciplinary point of view, which represents one of the prerogatives of both Social Indicators Research and the Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics. This Special Issue collects a selection of papers presented by SIEDS members during the LVI Scientific Meeting in Ascoli Piceno (Italy) on May 23-24, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Soc Indic Res 153, 923-955 (2021). https://doi.org/article/10.1007/s11205-020-02487-5 An article note was included in the original version of the Editorial article stating the above information. Soc Indic Res 153, 741-758 (2021). https://doi.org/article/10.1007/s11205-020-02341-8 "Riniolo, V., Ortensi, L.E. Young Generations' Activism in Italy: Comparing Political Engagement and Participation of Native Youths and Youths from a Migrant Background. Soc Indic Res 154, 725-754 (2021). https://doi.org/article/10.1007/s11205-020-02563-w "Greco, F., Polli, A. Security Perception and People Well-being. [Extracted from the article]

The analysis highlights the relationship between the territorial distribution of foreigners in Lombardy and the economic space they occupy, territorially defined by the Local Labour Systems. In particular, using these units the study assesses the importance of ethnic networks and local labour market conditions in defining the varying concentration of foreign nationalities living in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]