This book is probably my entire mind of researcher translated into words. It is the results of different projects that have engaged me for almost 6 years, since January 2011 when I started my PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex and including the work I have carried out after the completion of my PhD. It is very difficult to understand and pinpoint how images, concepts, ideas, considerations, theories, models and notions emerge and change in one’s mind, especially when it comes to such complex and rich fields of enquiry. Certainly, thanks to all the people I have talked to, from formal interviews to conversations I had on train carriages with colleagues; thanks to observations of my own birthplace, Calabria, and its idiosyncrasies; and thanks to my work environment, it has been possible to at least believe I had something to say and to write in this context. I wish, therefore, to thank all those who contributed, one way or the other, formally or informally, knowingly or unknowingly, to this book; I certainly cannot contain them all in a page. I take full responsibility of the mistakes I might have made and of all its content.