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Population and its dynamics are central to the analysis of social interactions, causal frameworks, and the effects of economic, political, and socio-cultural transformations. Population studies provide an essential contribution to the formulation of policies.
Migration, understood as a complex and multidimensional process, plays a significant role in societal change at multiple scales – local, regional, national, and international – redefining collective identities, institutional arrangements, and social relations.
The core of the research activities of the Population and migrations group lies in the development of integrated interpretative frameworks capable of linking social change with major demographic transformations.
The research agenda addresses a wide range of topics, including fertility, mortality, population ageing and family dynamics; international migration, diasporas, and various forms of (im)mobility; multiculturalism and transnationalism; migration and integration policies; subjective well-being of foreign populations; Italian emigration: border areas; internal and temporary migration; and intra-urban residential mobility, urbanization processes, and settlement patterns.
These topics are addressed from a territorial perspective through multidisciplinary approaches integrating demography, geography, sociology, anthropology, and ethnography. Research activities are further developed in close collaboration with scholars and scientific networks in Italy, Europe and beyond.
subjective well-being
citizenship
borders and frontiers
demography
diasporas
inequalities
cultural hybridity
internal migration
international migration
temporary migration
mobility and immobility
residential mobility
settlement patterns
multiculturalism
migration and integration policies
population
racism and cultural conflicts
social networks
transnationalism