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The subject of exile is a ubiquitous global theme. The result of multiple factors, it insinuates itself into events affecting people's daily lives and the development of countries. Beyond politics, a psychological reading enables us to reflect on its impact, not only on the individual or group but also in relation to the exiled family. The concept of a mythical or archetypal family can help us to clarify what emerges from contact between two communities and the challenges in their encounter. The study of a specific case - Portuguese families adjusting to life in a French-speaking region of Switzerland - reveals a pattern reproduced elsewhere, even though separate in time and space. The cultural shock emanating from a background and approach of different dynamics leads to psychological resistance on both sides - and to a negative prognosis for cultural integration. Analytical work with exiled children and adolescents allows us to glimpse how this theme intertwines with personal psychologies, pointing to its creative solution through the resolution of conflict and openness to diversity - as carried forward by new generations. It is they who are open to multicultural values, showing simultaneously a respect for ancestry and a desire for renewal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A touching interview to Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, Metropolitan Archbishop of Agrigento and president of the Italian Caritas, who visited Bari for a diocesan meeting on the Pastoral of Health Care in the last months. The Archbishop, a native of Messina, maintained that is necessary to change our perspective towards migrants arriving to Italy, with whom he personally worked as the national and local Church supervisor of the landings on Lampedusa island. The Archbishop's words have been included in a high school project on «Education on Integration and Multiculturalism» held in Triggiano (Bari), and have been deeply discussed on the occasion of the last Conference of the Facoltà Teologica Pugliese «Gospel and Society starting from Evangelii Gaudium » [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution proposes to represent the Research Reports on migration, published in Italy in 2016: The Dossier of Immigration Statistics by IDOS (Immigration Dossier Statistics); The XXII Report on Migration 2016 by the ISMU Foundation (Initiatives and Studies on Multi-ethnicity); The XXVI Report on Immigration 2015. The culture of encounter, by Caritas and Migrantes. The thematic nuclei developed by the various authors highlight both the pregnancy of the migratory process for the nations of origin as well as of arrival of the migrants, both for the bilateral processes that modify the attitudes of the societies at the structural and cultural levels. The data documents how migration is already a structural fact and not just a passing event and, therefore, the institutions, first of all the educational institutions, find themselves, and will find themselves – in the near future – having to deal with it not as an emergency, but as integration and living together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural, social and political conditions of the country of origin of an immigrant significantly mark the process in community building in the receiving society. The Latino immigrant’s and particularly Colombian’s narrations collected in Amsterdam, London and Madrid speak about this cultural passage and the conflicts and their continual confrontation with the realities of their country of origin. Although Colombians have the one of the largest groups among the Latin Americans in these cities, and have become leaders in some cultural and political integration activities, they still experience a fragile integration process and have difficulty in building community projects, which would make them visible as a group and where they could develop dynamics of solidarity and cohesion.

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