Condolences for the passing of Prof. Enrico Pugliese
IRPPS expresses deep condolences for the passing of Prof. Enrico Pugliese, Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Labor at Sapienza University of Rome, the first director of the CNR Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, and later an associate.
Our Institute extends its most heartfelt condolences to his family and to all those who knew him.
He will be remembered on December 4 at 11:30 AM at the Capitoline Hill, in the Sala della Protomoteca.
Prof. Pugliese dedicated his studies to the functioning of the labor market, the agricultural world, migration, and welfare systems. He was a point of reference for all of us and for the Institute as a whole, through his teachings, scientific rigor, and numerous collaborations.
With Pugliese, one of the last exponents of the “School of Portici” passes away—the Faculty of Agriculture directed by Manlio Rossi Doria, his teacher and mentor. In Portici, Pugliese developed his primary research interests, which he then expanded throughout his academic career and beyond. Indeed, Pugliese always combined his academic activity with a constant civil and political commitment. He collaborated for many years with the CGIL, working at IRES (the Institute for Economic and Social Research) during the presidency of Adriana Buffardi, and with FLAI, the trade union for agricultural and food processing industry workers.
Appointed director of CNR-IRPPS in 2002, he led the Institute until 2009, contributing decisively to shaping its current scientific profile.
Pugliese succeeded in merging the research traditions of the two main research institutes that gave life to IRPPS: the Institute for Population Research (IRP) in Rome and the Institute for Research on Social Security Dynamics (IRIDISS) in Penta di Fisciano. Under his direction, IRPPS worked from an interdisciplinary perspective on themes such as international migration, population aging, and social security policies. Evidence of this period of the Institute can be found in the various IRPPS reports on the welfare state in Italy, published by Donzelli in the Welfare Books series, as well as the books he published as an author for Il Mulino: L’Italia tra migrazioni internazionali e migrazioni interne, 2006; Quelli che se ne vanno. La nuova emigrazione italiana, 2018; La Terza età. Anziani e società in Italia, 2011; Storia sociale dell’immigrazione italiana. Dall’Unità a oggi, 2024 (with Mattia Vitiello).
The personal and research biography of Enrico Pugliese is told in the film “Raccontare Pugliese. Omaggio per gli ottant’anni di Enrico Pugliese,” available on Vimeo.













































