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The relationship between entrepreneurship and the integration of migrants is at the centre of international debate because the growing propensity of migrants to start businesses does not always intersect with a virtuous path of economic and social integration...

This contribution will focus on development from an anthropological and moral point of view. Development concerns human flourishing, which cannot take place apart from friendship, understood as love for common goods. Relationships of accompanying incarnate a specific form of friendship with ‘significant others’ able to recognize our inner value, to activate our deep desires and to enhance a practice of freedom as the capacity to recognize and reach the good...

This study investigates the limits of job accompaniment if focuses exclusively on placement in the labour market and not on building a career that generates satisfaction and facilitates inclusion. Experienced career counselling fosters the development of quality vocational interests, focusing on how refugees’ learning experiences shape their self- efficacy perceptions and outcome expectations within the host country...

In recent years, the debate on the issues of hardship and social inclusion has focused above all on policies to combat poverty through economic subsidies and income support. In this paper, we instead analyse experiences of social inclusion through a survey on the work reintegration projects promoted by the Italian Caritas, to understand the success factors and the constraints of projects not based on direct economic subsidy...

The not in employment, education or training (NEET) category is now widely used in many contexts to refer to young people who are not studying, not working and not in training. However, this category is very broad and its delimitation does not always allow for successful interventions and policies. This paper aims to psychologically profile the diverse groups of NEETs (as proposed by Eurofound) in order to provide qualitative aspects in terms of different variables...

This article discusses the not in education, employment, or training (NEET) construct used in public policies to identify vulnerable young people and respond to their needs but which is actually incapable of grasping their heterogeneity and diverse life conditions...