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Virtual Mobilities Italy—Morocco and Mediterranean Connections

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Our study aims to understand the relationship between the use of the Internet and migrants’ interpersonal relations in their host environments with natives, with persons of the same ethnic group, and with their places of origin. Specifically, this study firstly attempts to discern the influence of Moroccan migrants’ virtual mobilities—coupled with their spatial mobilities as migrants in Italy—on individuals’ patterns of encountering and integration locally while keeping instant connection with their home country. Secondly, we attempt to realize a first appreciation of connected spaces through individuals’ communication patterns across the sea in order to initially assess the contours of the digitally connected Mediterranean Basin, on the basis of personal mobilities from Italy to Morocco and vice versa.

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Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013/under REA grant agreement n° [612639] MEDCHANGe.

Fieldwork in Morocco was conducted by Maria Paradiso with the valuable assistance provided by Sabatino Melillo and Luca di Natale (technical personnel at UNISANNIO). Fieldwork in Italy was led and run by Maria Paradiso who wishes to acknowledge also Colleagues Mohamed El Aklaa, Ph.D. Nabil Layachi seconded by UCAM, Morocco and Mohamed Alouat seconded by ENSB Algeria. Maria wishes to thank Hicham Sattar who inputted data and elaborated them thru SPSS for his devoted commitment. For Italian purposes of evaluation of individual research: Maria Paradiso conceived paper’s aims, path, and conceptual frame; she shared the setting quantitative methodological approach and wrote Sects. 1, 2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 5. ACM, data processing, and survey in Morocco were conducted by Casablanca team, and descriptions of ACM and Moroccan families survey on usage of ICTs in Morocco were conducted by Siham Lamari and Samira Oukarfi. For Morocco purposes of scholars’ research evaluation, all authors are in alphabetical order; thus, the first author is not the principal Author.

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  1. University of Casablanca Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco

    Siham Lamari, Samira Oukarfi, Maria Paradiso & Hicham Sattar

  2. University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

    Siham Lamari, Samira Oukarfi, Maria Paradiso & Hicham Sattar

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Appendices

Appendices

1.1 Annex 1: Meeting space

The two dimensions explain 67% of the phenomenon studied with a Cronbach Alpha index of 69%

Summary of models

Dimension

Alpha of Cronbach

Explained variance

Total (eigenvalue)

Inertia

Percentage of variance explained

1

0.698

6.717

0.354

35.351

2

0.680

6.009

0.316

31.624

Total

 

12.725

0.670

 

Average

0.690a

6.363

0.335

33.488

  1. aThe average Cronbach Alpha value is based on the average eigenvalue

1.2 Annex 2: Contact Space

The two dimensions explain 67.8% of the phenomenon studied with a Cronbach Alpha index of 61.9%

Summary of models

Dimension

Alpha of Cronbach

Explained variance

Total (eigenvalue)

Inertia

Percentage of variance explained

1

0.621

8.630

0.345

34.522

2

0.616

8.320

0.333

33.280

Total

 

16.950

0.678

 

Average

0.619a

8.475

0.339

33.901

  1. aThe average Cronbach Alpha value is based on the average eigenvalue

1.3 Annex 3: Exposure to Resources

The two dimensions explain 78% of the phenomenon studied with a Cronbach Alpha index of 68.8%

Summary of models

Dimension

Alpha of Cronbach

Explained variance

Total (eigenvalue)

Inertia

Percentage of variance explained

1

0.700

6.240

0.416

41.600

2

0.675

5.457

0.364

36.377

Total

 

11.697

0.780

 

Average

0.688a

5.848

0.390

38.989

  1. aThe average Cronbach Alpha value is based on the average eigenvalue

1.4 Annex 4: Emotion

The two dimensions account for 78.6% of the phenomenon studied with a Cronbach Alpha index of 91.4%

Summary of models

Dimension

Alpha of Cronbach

Explained variance

Total (eigenvalue)

Inertia

Percentage of variance explained

1

0.942

9.288

0.489

48.883

2

0.869

5.646

0.297

29.716

Total

 

14.934

0.786

 

Average

0.914a

7.467

0.393

39.299

  1. aThe average Cronbach Alpha value is based on the average eigenvalue

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Lamari, S., Oukarfi, S., Paradiso, M., Sattar, H. (2019). Virtual Mobilities Italy—Morocco and Mediterranean Connections. In: Paradiso, M. (eds) Mediterranean Mobilities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89632-8_8

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