Whether intercultural education fails or thrives depends not just on policies, but on the teachers implementing them. Drawing on fieldwork in Italy, Irene Landini shows how inclusive practices emerge — or falter — depending on school leadership, discretion, and innovation
South Tyrol, like other autonomous minority regions, is experiencing an increase in the number of migrant schoolchildren. Local authorities have adopted the Council of Europe’s intercultural education paradigm. Yet, as Irene Landini shows, its implementation varies significantly between different native groups and different Italian provinces
Eastern European governments show a high degree of solidarity towards Ukrainian asylum seekers fleeing the conflict provoked by the Russian invasion. At the same time, these governments continue to resist asylum seekers from the Middle East. Irene Landini explains the geographical, cultural and political factors behind this contradiction.
The Austrian government's openly discriminatory policies against migrants have been invalidated by the Constitutional Court and challenged by the European Commission. But, argues Irene Landini, that has not ended ‘welfare chauvinism’ and social exclusion, either in Austria or elsewhere in Europe
YUFE-MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp
Irene is a social researcher specialising in international migration and immigrant integration into host societies.
She is interested in investigating the main obstacles to and the strategies prompting integration in the domains of welfare and formal education.
In January 2024 she joined the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp, on a Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) postdoctoral scholarship (a European-funded scholarship).
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