Ricerc@Sapienza

The migration crisis is one of the most defying issues facing the world today, and to study it adequately constitutes an opportunity for the promotion of the positive aspects of encounter of populations in the construction of tomorrow’s world citizens.
The application of the Social Representations Theory for the study of such group movements in their geo-cultural context provides an opportunity to understand future world citizens, investigating processes of social inclusion/exclusion in relation to contemporary migratory phenomena.

The objective of this chapter is to address the following question: what is the value of the scientific networking, training and documentation activities in the new academic scenario dominated by the bibliometric assessment culture and by the impact of the technology to the science production and sharing (data-driven science, big data, open data, open access, etc.).

This chapter is dedicated to evaluative component of the social representations of historic European capital cities, comparing it before and after the first-time visit that took place in the period from 2011 to 2013. Based on the set of empirical data, it presents and discusses the integrative framework for evaluation of a city conceived as a resource in responsible urban tourism.

The migration crisis is one of the most defying issues facing the world today and the application of the Social Representations Theory to study such group movements in their geo-cultural context provides an opportunity to understand future world citizens, investigating processes of social inclusion/exclusion in relation to contemporary migratory phenomena.