Multiple Ethnic Inequalities. A Multidimensional Analysis of Migrants’ Penalty on Occupational Achievement and Health in Italy (MEI)

The MEI project aims at investigating the multidimensional and cumulative features of social disadvantages of migrants in the Italian society, considering how the interrelations between ethnicity, social origin, gender and other individual traits create peculiar social conditions that produce an accumulation of disadvantages that hamper life chances, or whether such interrelations easier migrants’. Besides contributing with new and innovative evidence on ethnic inequalities, the MEI project also integrates the studies on social stratification and mobility, which often neglect the role of international migration as the main driver of social change in many European countries since WW2, making contemporary societies more ethnically heterogeneous. Finally, the MEI project also extends the idea that social background of origin is the main key factor driving intergenerational reproduction of social inequality; MEI addresses this challenge by bringing new evidence to the increasingly widespread idea that social stratification and inequality are the product of several different social, economic and demographic processes, which might push individuals into different directions, even when they share some individual features. The project aims at generating a spillover effect at the regional level by integrating research withthe point of view of Third sector organisations, thanks to the involvement of CSV-Milan. The project also benefits from the participation of the Medì-Research Center, which is an important research center for migration studies and which will ensure a wide dissemination of the empirical results of the project. MEI project is organically connected with the international literature and with other international and national research projects. Finally, through a structured dissemination plan, combined with the advice of a high-level international board, the GESI project provides relevant impacts on the scientific community and society in general.