Italian Law (italian + law)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Biopolitical Management, Economic Calculation and "Trafficked Women"

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, Issue 4 2010
Jacqueline Berman PhD
Narratives surrounding human trafficking, especially trafficking in women for sex work, employ gendered and racialized tropes that have among their effects, a shrouding of women's economic decision-making and state collusion in benefiting from their labour. This paper explores the operation of these narratives in order to understand the ways in which they mask the economics of trafficking by sensationalizing the sexual and criminal aspects of it, which in turn allows the state to pursue political projects under the guise of a benevolent concern for trafficked women and/or protection of its own citizens. This paper will explore one national example: Article 18 of Italian Law 40 (1998). I argue that its passage has led to an increase in cooperation with criminal prosecution of traffickers largely because it approaches trafficked women as capable of making decisions about how and what they themselves want to do. This paper will also consider a more global approach to trafficking embedded in the concept of "migration management", an International Organization for Migration (IOM) framework that is now shaping EU, US and other national immigration laws and policies that impact trafficking. It will also examine the inherent limitations of both the national and global approach as an occasion to unpack how Article 18 and Migration Management function as forms of biopolitical management that participate in the production of "trafficking victims" into a massified population to be managed, rather than engender a more engaged discussion of what constitutes trafficking and how to redress it. [source]


Forecasting daily high ozone concentrations by classification trees

ENVIRONMETRICS, Issue 2 2004
F. Bruno
Abstract This article proposes the use of classification trees (CART) as a suitable technique for forecasting the daily exceedance of ozone standards established by Italian law. A model is formulated for predicting, 1 and 2 days beforehand, the most probable class of the maximum daily urban ozone concentration in the city of Bologna. The standard employed is the so-called ,warning level' (180,,g/m3). Meteorological forecasted variables are considered as predictors. Pollution data show a considerable discrepancy between the dimensions of the two classes of events. The first class includes those days when the observed maximum value exceeds the established standard, while the second class contains those when the observed maximum value does not exceed the said standard. Due to this peculiarity, model selection procedures using cross-validation usually lead to overpruning. We can overcome this drawback by means of techniques which replicate observations, through the modification of their inclusion probabilities in the cross-validation sets. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Can Language Politics Ensure Languages Survival?

LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2008
Evidence from Italy
In light of the minority language revitalization trend, which has spread throughout Europe, encouraged by International and European legislation, at the end of the last century, an Italian law was approved to give a national framework to minority language preservation and renaissance. The status and prestige of minority languages thus appeared to be strengthened, though several theoretical and practical problems continue to impede national implementation of the law. Some of these problems , the different language minorities present in Italy, the linguistic variety that should be used in public settings and the nature of the language that is the object of the national language policy , are examined in this article. The purpose of this article is to consider the pros and cons of Italian language policies and politics through case studies representative of Italian sociolinguistic diversity, thus highlighting the roadblocks to protecting minority languages. [source]


Claims firm overpays tens of millions,and then gets most of it back

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 2 2008
Russ Bleemer
A Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court judge presides over a claims resolution facility that he had ordered to retrieve nearly $60 million in misdirected payments. A negotiation-style conference in the middle of the courtroom retraced the steps of the missing money, and how most of it had been returned in less than a month. Also: Italian law officially changes to allow class actions, providing for an "ADR Chamber of Reconciliation" to hash out payments. [source]