Population and its dynamics represent a central factor in economic and socio-cultural issues. The diversity of demographic structures and dynamics justifies the focus on these emerging issues, their causal origins, and their consequences. The need to respond to the resulting demand for intervention and to manage future dynamics with a preventive perspective requires the support of population studies. Furthermore, migratory dynamics are becoming one of the key elements in the evolutionary processes of Western societies and beyond. This applies to supranational, national, regional, and local contexts alike. Finally, phenomena such as population aging, transformations in gender and generational relations, and the interconnections between emigration and immigration processes have a major impact on society. Therefore, these aspects of demographic structure are of significant interest to researchers and policymakers. This line of research aims to link these various aspects to build a unified and comprehensive interpretive framework and to highlight common elements.

The topics of interest stem from the project lines and cover all demographic and migratory themes. Regarding the former, emphasis is placed on the study of population dynamics at various territorial levels and their consequences for land management and local policies.

Among the latter, the following should be noted: migratory dynamics at the international level; migration, integration, and reception policies; the various aspects of foreign immigration in Italy; Italian emigration; internal mobility phenomena and urbanization dynamics. Studies are also conducted on diasporas and the increase of qualitatively different perspectives in the study of migration within the context of globalization and multiculturalism, with particular focus on the historical reconstruction of the Greek diaspora and qualitative research on the second Hellenic generation in Italy.

The complexity of migratory and demographic processes is addressed through quantitative and qualitative scientific analyses carried out by a multidisciplinary research group (demography, urban and labor sociology, geography, and social anthropology).

Massimiliano Crisci (contact person)

Corrado Bonifazi

Roberto Cipriani

Stefano degli Uberti

Frank Heins

Angela Paparusso

Andrea Pelliccia

Antonio Sanguinetti

Michele Santurro

Salvatore Strozza

Mattia Vitiello

population
demographic forecasts
migrations
mobility
diaspora
volunteering
European migration policies