Exploring the health and wellbeing of Italian migrants in Britain today

Programme

9.30-11.00

Panel 1: Accessing healthcare among Italian communities

• Selena Daly (Associate Professor in Italian Studies, UCL) ‘Italians’ access to healthcare in England from the 1880s to today.’
• Gaia Figini (Psychologist and member of non-profit organisation Transiti Psicologia d'Espatrio), ‘Supporting the psychological well-being of Italians living abroad: a crossroads of experiences between digital spaces and community interventions.’
• Michela Franceschelli (Associate Professor of Sociology, UCL), ‘Precarity and belonging: Black Italian migrants’ lives and wellbeing in the UK.’

11.00-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.45

Panel 2: Ageing and the Italian diaspora

• Simona Palladino (Senior Lecturer in Social Science, Liverpool Hope University), ‘Older Italian Migrants’ Sense of Home.’
• Massimo Pini (Volunteer and Committee member at Casa Italiana San Vincenzo Pallotti, Clerkenwell), ‘Casa Italiana - supporting Italian community and culture since 1960.’
• Ole Jensen (Associate Lecturer, Open University), ‘The living and the dead: Exploring the Italian graves in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey.’

12.45-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30

Panel 3: Migrant groups and healthcare in the UK: Comparative Perspectives

• Brian Dalton (CEP, Irish in Britain) and Rosa Gilbert (Policy and Research Manager, Irish in Britain), ‘Health and wellbeing of the Irish in Britain: how community organisations respond to changing needs.’
• A representative of the Caribbean and African Health Network, title TBC.

15.30-16.00: Next steps and closing remarks

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