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The aim of the paper is to highlights the main trends of the migration process in the last decades, in relations to the migrant families experiences within the Italian context. In particular, the paper will focus on some specific issues: changing patterns of family migrations in Italy, migrant families formation transitions and life-course strategies, migrants and mixed families models from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. These aspects show the peculiarity of the Italian situation as regards the migration process as a family experience that involves genders and generations and different pathways related to this aspects.

With gender equality so prominent in public debate, this timely book reviews the impacts of gender mainstreaming on political, social and cultural issues around Europe. It explores the origins and evolution of mainstreaming, the theory's contribution to gender equality legislation so far and its potential to drive change in the future. Drawing on extensive data, the book compares and contrasts progress in various European countries, taking into account the multidimensionality of gender equality. Finally, the book considers the limits of gender mainstreaming amid economic, migration and political challenges. This important book is a welcome contribution to discussions about gender equality in European societies looking at the interplay of policies, culture and public opinion.

Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives. There has been a general lack of comparative research to the complex intersection between old and new forms of masculinity; and between fatherhood, work-life balance, gender relations and children's well-being. As a result, men's fathering roles and their struggle with work-life balance have often been neglected. These cultural challenges should be better theorized within family and social policy research. This volume examines how fathers fulfill their roles both within the family and at work and what institutional support could be of most benefit to them in combining these roles.

Sustainability is an issue whose importance has steadily increased in the last decades, becoming more and more a priority than just a set of good practices. This is proved by the charts and treaties ratified since the end of the 80s, starting with the UN's Brundtland Report and its first definition of sustainable development with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development issued in 2015. A set of 17 goals that all adhering countries should pursue to assure a sustainable future for future generations. In the meanwhile, in 1995, the "Charter for sustainable tourism" was published in Lanzarote, one of the eight Canary Islands, declaring that tourism undoubtedly plays a crucial role in contributing to sustainability since it can promote destinations and offer services that pay attention to the local environment, economy, culture and society, in other words, to "heritage". It did not happen by chance that Lanzarote was chosen as the cradle of sustainable tourism: although its fame spread much later than other archipelago islands, its development was carefully planned, carried out and managed to prevent any damage to local culture and landscape. In this paper, we explore the case study of Lanzarote, to explain in details the threats that this destination managed to face (e.g. overtourism, environmental and cultural loss), along with those factors that have been crucial for the island's sustainable development: a wide range of natural and cultural features (warm climate, sea, volcanic landscape, vernacular architecture, agriculture, gastronomy and history), the involvement of local society in tourism activities, the adoption of legislative measures for the protection of natural and cultural heritage, the improvement of infrastructures and technology and the collaboration between public and private stakeholder. However, thanks to the prominent figure of the local artist César Manrique, all those factors were strategically linked, conceiving the idea of a network of tourist sites: the Centers of Art, Culture and Tourism (also known as CACT). This network contributed to the creation of a well-known brand whose strategy is to offer a set of "alternative tourist products", in addition to the classical model of sun, sea, sand, that is sustainable for both the environment and the local society and does not exclude existing traditional activities like farming, fishing and crafts. We compare all the characteristics introduced in this paper with the 12 sustainable tourism aims established by the World Tourism Organization and the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to check Lanzarote's sustainability degree objectively.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the phenomenon of increasing gender inequalities that happen at old age regarding women's pension. Moving from recent life-course theories and studies, this study analyzes the reasons behind gender-biased pension levels and how their cumulative effects result in (continuous) significant gender gaps. The article presents a European overview of pension gender gap, focusing on family and work-life issues in Italy. This is one of the first critical reviews of the small but growing literature and national data concerning the effect of gender inequalities related to pension gaps in Italy. In the past, research on the balance of welfare provision between State, family, and market has ignored gender, while more recent studies have barely explored how gender roles, changing over time, interact with the shifts in pension policies. Considering the effects of work-life balance policies since the 2000 Lisbon agenda process and its development, the study especially focuses on the Italian case within the European context. The article examines how the choices in work-life balance policies vary between different national contexts and welfare regimes, by highlighting the Italian case. In this country, welfare and social policy regimes remain very unbalanced, showing a lack of awareness of family and women's needs, as in many Southern countries, and Italy is not able to give appropriate answers to these problems and to the question of the growing gender gap. This article finally shows the poignancy of structural and cultural reasons for gender differentiated pension levels in Italy, within the European context, according to patterns of employment, marital, and maternal status between earlier and later generations of women.