Migration documentation and research centre
The Migration Documentation and Research Centre was established in spring 2008, at the request of the cantonal and federal authorities, with the aim of contributing to the creation of the Competence Centre for Integration in Ticino (CCI).
It represents a unit of the Competence Centre for Labour, Welfare and Social Research that is active in researching the relationships between migration policies, integration policies (at national, cantonal and local level) and the living conditions of the foreign population in Switzerland.
The Centre integrates its activities with existing library and research services in the
Department and its holdings can be consulted through the catalogues of the SUPSI-DEASS Library in Palazzo E.
It represents a unit of the Competence Centre for Labour, Welfare and Social Research that is active in researching the relationships between migration policies, integration policies (at national, cantonal and local level) and the living conditions of the foreign population in Switzerland.
The Centre integrates its activities with existing library and research services in the
Department and its holdings can be consulted through the catalogues of the SUPSI-DEASS Library in Palazzo E.
Objectives and target groups
The Migration Documentation and Research Centre aims to:
- Raising awareness and providing information on integration and interculturalism
- To collect and make available to the public written and audiovisual materials for knowledge and information on issues concerning the various aspects of the migration phenomenon with particular reference to integration policies, communication, intercultural relations and the living conditions of the migrant population
- Carry out research projects and consultancy services on migration issues
- Collaborate with SUPSI research units and competence centres for specific in-depth studies
- The centre is aimed at all people who work with migrants and who work or conduct research in the various fields of migration
Performance and materials available
All materials of the Migration Documentation and Research Centre can be consulted on the premises and can be borrowed. The centre makes available books, pecialized journals, dossiers, research theses, proceedings of study days, collections of grey materials (projects, pamphlets, separate articles, photographs), and audiovisual materials (DVD, CD, VHS). This documentation has been classified on the basis of a subject index, maintaining the library’s shelf mark so as to facilitate public lending with the present computer system.The centre offers advice on finding documentation and research on the topics of migration,’integration, interculturalism and racism. Upon request, it draws up targeted bibliographies and provides a reading room, a photocopier and a computer for computer access to bibliographic databases and the Internet.
The CDRM also makes its space available for meetings of groups and people involved in different capacities in migration phenomena.
Topics
- Political asylum
- Illegal immigrants
- Intercultural communication
- Ethnic communities
- Deviance and psychic distress
- Migrant women
- Migrant families
- Frontier workers
- Young migrants
- Integration/assimilation
- Interculturality / multiculturality
- Job
- Mass media
- International Migration
- Migration in Switzerland and Ticino
- Naturalisation
- Nomads
- Racism
- Religions
- Health
- School / intercultural pedagogy
- Social services
- History and sociology of migration
- Testimonials
Opening Hours
For consultation, see the SUPSI-DEASS Library’s timetable in Palazzo E. For appointments and advice, please send an email.
Contacts
Department of Business Economics, Health and Social CareMigration Documentation and Research Centre
Palazzo E, Via Cantonale 16e
CH-6928 Manno
+41 (0)58 666 64 14
cdrmigrazioni@supsi.ch
Responsibile: Laura Bertini-Soldà