Stefano degli Uberti
Socio-anthropologist and researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of Italian National Research Council (IRPPS–CNR), since 1st January 2017.
He was previously Visiting Researcher at the UN-University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and he taught as adjunct professor at the University of Bergamo and University of Bologna. He also worked in the field of reception of asylum seekers and he served as a project officer for humanitarian associations, national institutions and international organizations, including the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and International Centre for Migration Policy Development.
He carries out ethnographic research, mainly in Senegal and Italy, on several issues related to international migration processes: West African transnationalism, integration and diversity (cultures of migration, imaginaries and social representations); mobility and immobility (decision-making processes, migration trajectories and expectations); the migration-development nexus; migration policies and practices of reception and integration of asylum seekers.
He is currently co-responsible of CNR-IRPPS research team in the HORIZON 2020 project Future Migration Scenarios for Europe.
He is author and co-author of several publications among which articles on peer-reviewed journals such as Regions & Cohesion; Urban Anthropology, Cahiers d’Études Africaines, Ethnography and Qualitative Research, Mondi Migranti.
Online References
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UJAjh10AAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
Orcid: 0000-0001-7415-588X
Scopus id: 7006774117
Main publications
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2020. 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, Interkulturalität. Studien zu Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft, Oktober, pp. 67-82.
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2019. Borders within. An ethnographic take on the reception policies of asylum seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol, Archivio Antropologico del Mediterraneo, 21, 2
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2019. “Migrare restando a casa”. Pratiche di Mobilità e Immaginari migratori in Senegal, In B. Riccio (eds.), Mobilità. Incursioni etnografiche, Mondadori, pp.23-63.
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2019.Le dimensioni socio-culturali della bassa fecondità. Tra continuità e cambiamento, Politiche Sociali, 4, pp.51-69.
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2017.. “Imagining greener pastures? Shifting perceptions of Europe and mobility within contemporary Senegal. A diachronic grounded perspective, Journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research, n.3 Sept-Dec., pp. 339-362 (first author, co-authored with B. Riccio)
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2017.. Processi d’integrazione e rappresentazioni sociali tra migranti e operatori di polizia, In C. Bonifazi (eds.), Migrazioni e Integrazioni oggi, IRPPS Publisher, pp.321-335.
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2015. Analyzing Intra-regional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa. Statistical Data Constraints and the role for Regional Organizations, Regions and Cohesion, vol. 5 (2), 77-113 (first author, co-authored with P. De Lombaerde, S. Nita e E. Legovini);
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2015. Has South Africa the Spine for Global Leadership?, In S. Kingah and C. Quiliconi, Global and Regional Leadership of Brics Countries, Springer Press, 209-224 (co-authored with S. Kingah);
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2014. Culture delle Migrazioni, In B. Riccio, Antropologia e Migrazioni, CISU, 21-33;
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2014. Victims of their fantasies or heroes for a day? Media representations, local history and daily narratives on the migrations piroguières from Senegal, Cahiers d’Études Africaines,LIV(1-2), n. 213-214, 81-113;
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2013.Senegalese Migrants in Italy. Beyond the Assimilation/Transnationalism Divide, Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, n. 42, pp. 207-354 (co-authored with B. Riccio);
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2011. Turismo e immaginari migratori. Esperienze dell’Altrove nel Senegal urbano, Archivio Antropologico del Mediterraneo, XII/XIII, 13 (1), 67-83.