Senior researcher. He is a Socio-anthropologist and member of the research area ‘Populations and Migrations’ where he mainly deals with the anthropology and ethnography of migration and the study of process of social changes.
Senior researcher
Rome
stefano.degliuberti@cnr.it
Stefano degli Uberti is a senior researcher at the National Research Council, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (CNR-IRPPS) in Rome.
From February 2023 he has been appointed CNR Alternate Delegate to the international network of Scholars at Risk (SAR) which promotes academic freedom and protect scholars whose lives are in danger or whose work is severely compromised.
Dr. degli Uberti (BA, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari; MA, Sussex University; PhD, University of Bergamo) was Visiting Researcher at the UNU-CRIS in Belgium and he taught at the Universities of Bergamo, Bologna and at the UNU-MERIT in The Netherlands.
Alongside his research activities, he worked as Vice Coordinator of a Reception Centre for Asylum seekers and Refugees in South Tyrol. He also served as a migration project officer for humanitarian associations, national institutions and international organizations (including the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, ICMPD and Agriconsulting Europe SA).
Since his postgraduate studies the research of Dr. degli Uberti mainly dealt with the qualitative analysis of the relations between migration and development through a transnational approach. He has focused the attention on the social construction of migration in both the departure and arrival contexts form the perspective of the multiple actors involved, not only migrants.
Mainly working in Italy and Senegal, his migration research extended also to the study of integration and diversity (social representations and multiculturalism), associationism, tourism and social changes, and more recently on the processes of (im)mobility decision-making (culture of migration, migration aspirations, imaginaries and capabilities).
Between 2017 and 2019 he took part as a senior expert in the MIRECO project (Monitoring and Improvement of REception COnditions – financed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs – AMIF fund) that provided a support to the Observatory on Reception through the realization of Guidelines aimed at setting up an accreditation and monitoring system.
In the wake of this research area his ethnographic gaze has turned to the analysis of the historical layers of reception system to examine the practices and policy mechanisms which inform the life experience of asylum seekers and refugees, in particular on the Italo-Austrian border.
More recently, as a part of an interdisciplinary team Dr. degli Uberti participates at the project Metromosaic (2022) to explore the motivations and patterns of residential (im)mobility and settlement of migrants in Italy through a socio-anthropological and demographic perspectives.
Since August 2022 he is coordinator of the CNR research unit of the multidisciplinary H2020 project FUME (Future Migration Scenarios for Europe) aimed at determining and envisaging both current and future trends of migrations to Europe at multiple levels (international, national, regional and local).
Updated resume and publications are available here.
Crisci, M., degli Uberti, S., Pelliccia, A. and Santurro, M. (2025), Patterns and Motivations of Intra-Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome, in Journal of Population, Space and Place, 31: e2875. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2875
degli Uberti S., Altin R. (2024) “Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy. Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of (Im)mobility”, in Journal of International Migration and Integration, 25(1), pp. 1133–1152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01125-0
Crisci, M., degli Uberti, S., Paparusso, A., Pelliccia, A., Vitiello, M. (2024) Declino demografico e scelte riproduttive nell’Italia dell’incertezza, in La società italiana nelle intemperie del nuovo millennio, S. Turcio, C. Pennacchiotti, Roma, CNR-IRPPS. http://epub.irpps.cnr.it/index.php/mono/article/view/302
degli Uberti S., Heins F., Diop L.N., Sall M. (2023). SENEGAL: Drivers and trajectories of migration to Europe. FUME H20 project report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8223962
Heins, F., degli Uberti, S., Bonifazi, C., Crisci, M., Paparusso, A., Pelliccia, A., De Rocchi, D., & Vitiello, M. (2023). Drivers of International Migration. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8183340
Altin R., degli Uberti S. (2022) “Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders”, in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 24 (3), pp.439-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448 953.2021.2015662
degli Uberti, S., & Altin, R. (2022). Editorial. Entangled temporalities of migration in the western Balkans. Ethnographic perspectives on (im)-mobilities and reception governance. in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 24(3), pp. 429–438. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.2015655
degli Uberti S. (2021) “Unveiling Informality through Im/mobility. Conceptual Analysis of Asylum Seekers and Refugees at the Margins of the Reception system in Italy”, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 26(5), pp. 528-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1953777
degli Uberti, S. (2021) "Eine zwiespältige Aufnahmepraxis im italienisch-österreichischen Grenzraum. Die Asylbewerber fuori quota zwischen lokalen Medien und Mikropolitik des Andersseins / Un’ambigua accoglienza sul confine Italo-Austriaco. I richiedenti asilo fuori quota tra media locali e micro-politiche dell’alterità". Flucht – Grenze – Integration / Fuga – Confine – Integrazione: Beiträge zum Phänomen der Deplatzierung / Contributi al fenomeno dello spostamento, D. Heimböckel, N. Roelens and C. Wille (Eds.), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 91-110. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451175-007
degli Uberti S. (2019) “Borders within. An ethnographic take on the reception policies of asylum seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol”, in Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/aam.1887
degli Uberti S. (2019) ‘Migrare restando a casa’. Pratiche di Mobilità e Immaginari migratori in Senegal, in B. Riccio (eds.), Mobilità. Incursioni etnografiche, Milano: Mondadori, pp.23-63
degli Uberti S., Pelliccia A. (2019) “Le dimensioni socio-culturali della bassa fecondità. Tra continuità e cambiamento”, in La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 4, pp.51-69
degli Uberti S., Riccio B. (2017) “Imagining greener pastures? Shifting perceptions of Europe and mobility within contemporary Senegal. A diachronic grounded perspective”, in Journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research, 3, pp. 339-362
degli Uberti S., De Lombaerde P., Nita S., Legovini E. (2015) “Analyzing Intra-regional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa. Statistical Data Constraints and the role for Regional Organizations”, in Regions and Cohesion, 5 (2), pp. 77-113
Kingah S., degli Uberti S. (2015) “Has South Africa the Spine for Global Leadership?”, in S. Kingah and C. Quiliconi (eds), Global and Regional Leadership of Brics Countries, Springer Press, pp. 209-224
degli Uberti S. (2014) “Culture delle Migrazioni”, in B. Riccio, Antropologia e Migrazioni, CISU, pp. 21-33
degli Uberti S. (2014) “Victims of their Fantasies or Heroes for a Day? Media Representations, Local History and Daily Narratives on Boat Migrations from Senegal”, in Cahiers d’Études Africaines, LIV (1-2), 213-214, pp. 81-113
Riccio B., degli Uberti S. (2013) “Senegalese Migrants in Italy. Beyond the Assimilation/Transnationalism Divide”, in Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 42, pp. 207-254
degli Uberti S. (2011) “Turismo e immaginari migratori. Esperienze dell’Altrove nel Senegal urbano”, in Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 13 (1), pp. 67-83. http://www.archivioantropologicomediterraneo.it/riviste/estratti_13/07.pdf
