Research Institute on Population and Social Policies

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National
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Council

Institute for Research
on Population
and Social Policies

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National
Research
Council

Institute for Research
on Population
and Social Policies

POPULATIONS AND MIGRATIONS

Population and its dynamics represent a central factor in economic and socio-cultural issues. The diversity of demographic structures and dynamics justify the attention on these emerging problems, on their causal matrices, on their consequences. The need to respond to the resulting demand for intervention and to govern future dynamics with a preventive perspective requires the support of population studies. Furthermore, migratory dynamics are characterizing themselves as one of the key elements in the evolutionary processes of Western societies and beyond. This happens both for supranational realities, as well as for national, regional and local ones. Finally, phenomena such as the aging of the population, changes in gender and generational relations, the interconnections between emigration and immigration processes have a great impact on society. Therefore, these aspects of the demographic structure are of significant interest to researchers and policy makers. This line of research aims to link these different aspects to try to build a unitary and comprehensive interpretative framework and to highlight the common elements.

The topics of interest derive from the project lines and concern all demographic and migratory themes. As regards the former, the study of population dynamics, at various territorial levels, is emphasized, due to their consequences on the management of the territory and local policies.

Among the latter we must mention: the migratory dynamics at the international level with particular attention to the motivations, aspirations and decision-making processes underlying the choice to migrate; migration, integration and reception policies; the different aspects of foreign immigration in Italy; Italian emigration; the phenomena of internal mobility and the dynamics of urbanization. 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 attention to the historical reconstruction of the Greek diaspora and the qualitative investigation of the second Hellenic generation in Italy.

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

Participants:

Maria G. Caruso, Massimiliano Crisci, Stefano degli Uberti, Frank Heins, Angela Paparusso, Andrea Pelliccia and Mattia Vitiello. The associates Giuseppe Gesano and Salvatore Strozza. Research fellows: Daniele De Rocchi, Giacomo Panzeri

Recent publications:

Ambrosetti E., & Paparusso A. (2020). What are the Main Factors Associated with Immigrants' Subjective Well-being in Italy? Evidence from Self-reported Life Satisfaction. International migration. Doi: 10.1111 / imig.12780

Ambrosetti E., & Paparusso A. (2019). Migrants or refugees? The evolving governance of migration flows in Italy during the “refugee crisis. Revue européenne des migrations internationales, 34, 157-171. Doi: 10.4000 / oars. 9565

Archibugi D., Cellini M., & Vitiello M. (2021). Refugees in the European Union: from emergency alarmism to common management. Journal of contemporary European studies. Doi: 10.1080 / 14782804.2021.1912718.

Benassi F., Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., & Tucci E. (2020). Population Change and International and Internal Migration in Italy, 2002-2017: Ravenstein Revisited. Comparative Population Studies, 44, (Sep. 2020), 497-531. Doi: 10.12765 / CPoS-2020-16

Benassi F., Heins F., Lipizzi F., & Paluzzi E. (2018). Measuring residential segregation of selected foreign groups with aspatial and spatial evenness indices. A case study. In Perna C., Pratesi M., & Ruiz-Gazen A. (eds), Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics. SIS 2016, Salerno, Italy, June 8-10. (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 227). Cham: Springer International Publishing. 189-199

Birindelli AM, & Bonifazi C. (2020). Nora Federici, the CISP, and the “Roman school” of demography: Internal migration, depopulation, emigration and immigration | Nora federici, the CISP and the “Roman school” of demography: Internal migration, depopulation, emigration and immigration. Emigration Studies, 217, 155-176.

Bonifazi C. (2019). Italian migrations after 1945: The mobility of Italians | Italian migrations after 1945: The mobility of Italians. Emigration Studies, 216, 410-432.

Bonifazi C. (2018). The dynamics of flows. In Lazar, M., Salvati, M., & Sciolla, L. (ed.), Europa. CULTURE AND SOCIETY. Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, Rome. 547-556

Bonifazi C. (edited by) (2017). Migrazioni e integrazioni nell’Italia di oggi. Rome: IRPPS-CNR.

Bonifazi C., Buonomo A., Paparusso A., Strozza S., & Vitiello M. (2019). La conoscenza dell’italiano e i processi di integrazione. In Cadeddu, ME, & Marras, C. (eds.), Languages, research, communication Focus CNR. Rome: CNR editions. 97-114. Doi: 10.36173/PLURIMI-2019-1

Bonifazi C., Caruso MG, Heins F., Paparusso A., & Panaccione D. (2018).Mobility trajectories: arriving and moving around Italy. In Istat, Report on the life and integration paths of immigrants in Italy. Rome: Istat. 35-51.

Bonifazi C., degli Uberti S., Pelliccia A. and Strozza S. (2019). "The demographic crisis. Families and fertility in Italy: policies and the European context". La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali – special issue, n. 4 (October-December).

Bonifazi C., De Rocchi D., Heins F., & Panzeri G. (2021) Mortality in Local Labor Systems during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rome: National Research Council - Research Institute on Population and Social Policies. (IRPPS Working papers n. 127/2021).

Bonifazi C., Heins F., & Tucci E. (2021). Dimensions and characteristics of the new Italian emigration. Sociology notebooks. (forthcoming)

Bonifazi C., Heins F., Licari F., & Tucci E. (2020). The regional dynamics of internal migration intensities in Italy. Population, Space and Place (Special issue 'Declining internal migration? Patterns, causes and prospects' Ian Shuttleworth, Tony Champion), e2331. Doi: 10.1002 / psp.2331.

Bonifazi C., & Paparusso A. (2018). Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first-generation migrants in Italy. Population, Space and Place, 25, 2, Doi: 10.1002 / psp.2174.

Canepari E., & Crisci M. (edited by) (2019). Moving Around in Town. Practices, Pathways and Contexts of Intra-Urban Mobility from 1600 to the Present Day. Viella, Rome.

Carella M., & Heins F. (2021) The impact of the Grande Récession on les modèles familiaux des jeunes adultes en Europe du Sud. In Bellis G., Carella M., Léger J.-F., & Parant A. (edited by) Populations et crises en Méditerranée. Milan: Franco Angeli. 89-107.

Crisci M., & Lucciarini S. (2019). Governing Inequalities. Inclusion and Exclusion Processes in the Mediterranean Area, from National to City Levels. Aracne, Rome.

Crisci M., & Protasi MR (2019). Immigration to Rome from 1970 to today. Emigration Studies, 216, 682-698.

degli Uberti, S. (2020). Eine zwiespältige Aufnahmepraxis im italienisch-österreichischen Grenzraum. Die Asylbewerber out of altitude zwischen lokalen Medien und Mikropolitik des Andersseins / An ambiguous welcome on the Italian-Austrian border. Asylum seekers out of quota between local media and micro-politics of otherness, Interculturalität. Studien zu Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft, Oktober, 67-82.

degli Uberti, S. (2019). Borders within. An ethnographic take on the reception policies of asylum seekers in Alto Adige / South Tyrol, Anthropological Archive of the Mediterranean, 21, 2

degli Uberti, S. (2019) “Migrating while staying at home”. Mobility practices and migratory imaginaries in Senegal, In Riccio B. (ed.), Mobilità. Ethnographic forays. Milan: Mondadori. 23-63.

Marras C., Cadeddu ME, & Bonifazi C. (edited by) (2020). Virus migration: numbers and languages. CNR editions, Rome. Doi. 10.36173 / PLURIMI-2020-2.

Pugliese E., & Vitiello M. (2020). Emigration from Campania to the Center-North from the post-war period to today. In Colucci, M., & Gallo, S. (edited by) Campania on the move 2020 Report on internal migration in Italy. Bologna: The Mill. 23-43.

Paparusso A. (2019). Immigrant citizenship status in Europe: the role of individual characteristics and national policies. Genus, 75. Doi: 10.1186 / s41118-019-0059-9.

Fur, A. (2021). Ideas for expanding the perspective of migratory networks. Emigration Studies, 221, 139-160.

Pelliccia A., & Raftopoulos R. (2020). "Reconstructing the contemporary Greek diaspora in Italy: Second World War and student mobility", Diaspora Studies, 13: 1, 37-58

Fur A. (2019). "The Internet in a diasporic and transnational context: A case study of a Greek community in Italy", Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 5: 1, 21-44.

Pugliese E., & Vitiello M. (2020). The three cycles of Italian emigration. The Sociological Critique, 215, 55-92.

Vitiello, M. (2020). The common european asylum system (CEAS) after refugee crisis. In Laschi G., Deplano V., & Pes A. (ed.), Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (1945-1992). Routledge, New York 129-143

Vitiello M. (2019). Italian migrations after 1945: the legal framework. Emigration Studies, 215, 433-452.

Participants

Mattia Vitiello - responsible
Corrado Bonifazi
Maria Girolama Caruso
Massimiliano Crisci
Stefano degli Uberti
Frank Heins
Angela Paparusso
Andrea Pelliccia
Giuseppe Gesano
Michele Santurro
Salvatore Strozza
Other POPMIG projects