The Urban Suffering Studies Center - SOUQ - arises from Milan, a place of complexity and economic and social contradictions belonged to global world. Tightly linked to Casa della Carità Foundation, which provides assistance and care to unserved populations in Milan (such as immigrants legal and illegal, homeless, vulnerable minorities), the Urban Suffering Studies Center puts attention on urban suffering in big cities. This phenomenum is not any more understandable right through public services and private interventions which are involved on mental health of citizens. It is urgent to make research on these kind of words' social exclusion to ease new and effective experiences. And a key tool of SOUQ is be always active in comparison with other international and national realities which deal with urban suffering; the main purpose is to guarantee scientific exploration, case history and good practices, under an ethical and social pressing point of view. By urbanization and immigration pressure, our big cities confirm how it is dangerous not to read this new phenomenum and as a result, not finding any solutions for well- being of cities and people.
The study centre wishes to study the phenomenon of urban suffering, in other words the suffering that is specific to the great metropolises.
Urban Suffering is a category that describes the meeting of individual suffering with the social fabric that they inhabit. The description, the understanding and the transformation of the psychological and social dynamics that develop from the meeting of ...
The Urban Suffering Studies Center - SOUQ - arises from Milan, a place of complexity and economic and social contradictions belonged to global world.Tightly linked to Casa della Carità Foundation, which provides assistance and care to unserved populations in Milan (such as immigrants legal and illegal, homeless, vulnerable minorities), the Urban Suffering Studies Center puts attention on ...
