Documents de recerca, en accés obert, com ara working papers, informes de recerca, memòries tècniques, etc., del Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials de la UPF.
In this paper I analyse the externalization of asylum by means of the establishment of processing centres outside the EU from a comparative legal approach. In light of the EU‟s recent steps towards offshoring, I study the ...
Hämäläinen, Hans; Tanskanen, Antti O.; Danielsbacka, Mirkka; Arpino, Bruno(2018-11-20)
Although reciprocity of intergenerational support has been widely considered in family studies, empirical investigations are still rather scarce. This study used data from four waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate ...
In contrast with the narrative of voiceless refugees, this working paper shows the political agency of refugees in hotspots. The hotspot approach was introduced by the EU in 2015 to formerly alleviate pressure from Greece ...
Millennials have been the focus of quite some research because of their
differences with older cohorts. Besides, young respondents have been considered as a
hard target population for surveys. However, to our knowledge, ...
Cappiali, Teresa M.; Triviño Salazar, Juan Carlos(2018)
This paper focuses on how multiple actors promote civic and political participation of
immigrants locally. The dominant approach in scholarship on political participation of
immigrants —the political opportunity ...
The use of emojis has been increasing during the last years. Six billion of
emojis are used every day. In addition, emojis, which originally were only present on the
Internet, started to invade the offline world too. ...
Over the last decades, female educational attainment has progressively caught up with male one in many OECD countries. Expectations of university graduation have correspondingly been found to be higher among female adolescents ...
Arpino, Bruno; Le Moglie, Marco; Mencarini, Letizia(2018-04)
Demographers often analyze the determinants of life-course events with parametric
regression-type approaches. Here, we present a class of nonparametric approaches, broadly
defined as machine learning (ML) techniques, and ...
This paper aims to show that secession, especially if unilateral, is difficult in contexts of
liberal democracy. The empirical difficulties may, however, ease the normative
recognition of a right to secede. After some ...
Di Gessa, Giorgio; Bordone, Valeria; Arpino, Bruno(2018-04)
Grandparents have always played an important role in the Italian society and in family life;
however, little is known about the demography of grandparenthood despite dramatic global
demographic changes that are likely ...
This article provides a descriptive analysis of the geographic distribution of Bosnian-born U.S. residents using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The data show that Bosnians remain highly ...
Gabrielli, Lorenzo; Franco-Guillén, Núria(Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2018)
This paper is based on empirical research performed in Catalonia in the framework of the international research project DiasporaLink, which analysed the links between transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (TDE), migration ...
Using an extensive simulation exercise, we address two open issues in propensity score
analyses: how to estimate propensity scores and how to assess covariates balance. We
compare the performance of several machine ...
Previous research has shown that measurement errors are large in data collected through
surveys. However, the size of these errors varies depending on the language, the mode of data collection, the question‟s characteristics, ...
Gebhardt, Dirk; Zapata Barrero, Ricard; Bria, Vittoria Emanuela(Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2017-06)
The aim of this study is to explore on the ground the trajectories of young children of
diverse origin in the city of Barcelona. As main source of information, in-depth
biographical interviews were conducted with 10 young ...
The debate on the tyrannical consequences of direct democratic rule on minority rights is
almost as old as democracy itself. Yet, it has regained considerable vigour in recent years,
as the ‘plebiscitarian turn’ widely ...
As the dynamics of migration in Europe has been continuously changing, diverse
empirical, theoretical, and methodological challenges have defined the landscape of
migration research. This paper aims to reflect on the ...
This article introduces the principal findings of research on how mainstream cultural
associations in Catalonia are implementing policy for the incorporation of immigrants.
During the last ten years, some inclusionary ...
This paper analyses the dynamics of the multilevel governance of migration flows
between West Africa and Europe. Firstly, I examine bilateral, multilateral and interregional
frames of cooperation on human mobility. ...
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of local processes of policy
implementation in areas that are characterised by a high level of politicisation and where
decisions are underpinned by conflicting ...