The research analyses the prescriptive use of the term ‘interculturalism’ in the legal sciences, with the dual purpose of understanding: 1) how its content is indebted to theoretical elaborations from other sciences; 2) in a comparative perspective, whether interculturalism has a uniform application in the different legal systems in which…
I flussi migratori che hanno interessato l’Italia negli ultimi trent’anni hanno lentamente ma inesorabilmente imposto uno sviluppo sociale, economico e giuridico del Paese senza precedenti. Questo fenomeno ha ovviamente coinvolto l’area del lavoro, che nel tempo ha dovuto far fronte a nuovi bisogni e al sorgere di nuove richieste di…
The proposed article introduces the main features of the millet system of personal laws, which is considered the most emblematic and oldest example of personal federalism adopted by the Ottoman Empire and maintained, in different forms, in some contemporary States. The first part of the contribution outlines the origin of…
This contribution investigates the meaning of ‘intercultural health’ through an analysis of the contexts in which this definition emerges. In particular, three areas are analyzed: that of indigenous communities, that of migrants and refugees and the more general context of therapeutic choices determined by cultural values. A final part of…
The contribution focuses on framings of the concept of the multicultural state. Only in recent times have certain questions prompted a re-thinking of previous definitions of the dogmatic category of state. The difficulty of tracing practical aspects back to theoretical models has led to seeing the multicultural state as an…
Intercultural education policy has emerged as an alternative to both assimilationism and multiculturalism. While multiculturalism emphasizes the cultural identity of social groups, somehow crystallizing their characteristics, interculturalism is based on a different understanding: it favors mutual dialogue and it assumes that the cultural identity of an individual cannot be equated…
In the legal field, the definition of the term ‘tradition’ suffers from heterogeneous understandings. These epistemological difficulties hint at one of the determinants of the definition of ‘legal tradition’, namely, an appeal to predominantly endogenous cultural aspects and not purely legal forms of legitimacy in the narrow sense. ‘Tradition’ and…
Il lavoro sottolinea come il consumo di cibo halal, o più ampiamente, di prodotti Sharì‘a-compliant, sia teso verso un superamento di quelle esigenze di fede che finora hanno caratterizzato prevalentemente il consumatore musulmano. Si profila un vero e proprio halal lifestyle, che potrebbe essere idoneo a rafforzare il dialogo interculturale…
Within the interdisciplinary project “Interculturalism: A Comparative Lexicon”, this article aims to analyse the concept of multiculturalism from an anthropological perspective. To do so, the article first focuses on the ways in which multicultural policies have been implemented in different Latin American countries, particularly with regard to indigenous peoples. It…
Il presente studio s’inserisce nella branca della linguistica forense che si prefigge l’obiettivo di rendere i documenti legali comprensibili, leggibili e completi. Punto di partenza della presente analisi è il noto, ma ancora irrisolto, problema relativo alla complessità ed alla scarsa chiarezza, dovuta dall’uso di un linguaggio eccessivamente rigido ed…
