Multidimensional Analysis of Deprivation and Fragility Patterns of Migrants in Lombardy, Using Partially Ordered Sets and Self-Organizing Maps

Alberto Arcagni (), Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Marco Fattore and Stefania M. L. Rimoldi
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Alberto Arcagni: University of Milano-Bicocca
Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso: University of Milano-Bicocca
Marco Fattore: University of Milano-Bicocca
Stefania M. L. Rimoldi: University of Milano-Bicocca

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 141, issue 2, No 3, 579 pages

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we present a multidimensional fuzzy analysis of the levels and the patterns of poverty and social fragility of migrants’ families, in the Italian region of Lombardy, in year 2014. Migrants’ poverty emerges as a complex trait, better described as a stratification of nuanced patterns than in black and white terms; Lombard migrants are in fact affected, to different extents, by “a diffused sharing of deprivation facets” and cannot be trivially split into deprived and non-deprived. The paper employs innovative data analysis tools from the Theory of Partially Ordered Sets; compared to mainstream monetary approaches, this leads to more realistic estimates of poverty diffusion and eliminates some well-known biases of standard evaluation procedures, providing strong support to the use of partial order concepts and tools in social evaluation studies.

Keywords: Fuzzy poverty; Multidimensional deprivation; Migrants; Partially ordered set; Social fragility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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