Stefano degli Uberti

Senior Researcher. He is a socio-anthropologist and contributes to the research activity “Populations and Migrations,” where he primarily focuses on the anthropology and ethnography of migration and the study of social change processes.

Senior Researcher

Rome

stefano.degliuberti@irpps.cnr.it

+39 06 492724 269

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Stefano degli Uberti is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS) in Rome.
Since February 2023, he has been appointed as the CNR Alternate Representative in the international network of Scholars at Risk (SAR), which promotes academic freedom and protects scholars whose lives are in danger or whose work is severely compromised.

Dr. degli Uberti (Degree, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Master’s, Sussex University; PhD, University of Bergamo) has been a Visiting Researcher at UNU-CRIS in Belgium and has taught at the Universities of Bergamo, Bologna, and at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands.
In addition to research activities, he has worked as deputy coordinator of a reception center for asylum seekers and refugees in South Tyrol. He has also worked as a migration project officer for humanitarian associations, national institutions, and international organizations (including the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, ICMPD, and Agriconsulting Europe SA).

Since his postgraduate studies, Dr. degli Uberti’s research has focused primarily on the qualitative analysis of the relationship between migration and development through a transnational approach. The focus has been on the social construction of migration in both departure and arrival contexts, from the perspective of the multiple actors involved, not only migrants.
Working mainly in Italy and Senegal, migration research has also extended to topics such as: integration and diversity (social representations and multiculturalism), associationism, tourism and social change, and, more recently, decision-making processes related to (im)mobility practices (migration culture, aspirations, and migration imaginaries).

Between 2017 and 2019, he participated as a senior expert in the MIRECO project (Monitoring and Accreditation of the Reception System for Refugees and Asylum Seekers – funded by the Ministry of the Interior – AMIF funds), which provided support to the Reception Observatory through the development of Guidelines aimed at establishing a national monitoring system.
Following this research area, the ethnographic focus has turned to analyzing the historical stratifications of the reception system to examine the practices and political mechanisms that inform the life experiences of asylum seekers and refugees, particularly on the Italian-Austrian border.

More recently, as a member of an interdisciplinary team, Dr. degli Uberti participates in the Metromosaic project (2022), which aims to explore the motivations and patterns of residential (im)mobility and settlement of migrants in Italy through a socio-anthropological and demographic perspective.
Since August 2022, he has been coordinator of the CNR research unit for the multidisciplinary H2020 project FUME (Future Migration Scenarios for Europe), aimed at determining and forecasting current and future migration trends to Europe at multiple levels (international, national, regional, and local).

Updated curriculum and publications are available here

Main Publications

degli Uberti S., Altin R. (2023 – forthcoming) “Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas. Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of (Im)mobility”, in Journal of International Migration and Integration
degli Uberti S., Heins F., Diop L.N., Sall M. (2023). SENEGAL: Drivers and trajectories of migration to Europe. FUME H20 project report. Zenodo.
Altin R., degli Uberti S. (2022) “Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders”, in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 24 (3), pp.439-459
degli Uberti S. (2021) “Unveiling Informality through Im/mobility. Conceptual Analysis of Asylum Seekers and Refugees at the Margins of the Reception system in Italy”, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 26 (5), pp. 528-551
degli Uberti S. (2019) “Borders within. An ethnographic take on the reception policies of asylum seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol“, in Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 21 (2),
degli Uberti S. (2019) ‘Migrare restando a casa’. Pratiche di Mobilità e Immaginari migratori in Senegal, in B. Riccio (eds.), Mobilità. Incursioni etnografiche, Milano: Mondadori, pp.23-63
degli Uberti S., Pelliccia A. (2019) “Le dimensioni socio-culturali della bassa fecondità. Tra continuità e cambiamento”, in La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 4, pp.51-69
degli Uberti S., Riccio B. (2017) “Imagining greener pastures? Shifting perceptions of Europe and mobility within contemporary Senegal. A diachronic grounded perspective”, in Journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research, 3, pp. 339-362
degli Uberti S., De Lombaerde P., Nita S., Legovini E. (2015) “Analyzing Intra-regional Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa. Statistical Data Constraints and the role for Regional Organizations”, in Regions and Cohesion, 5 (2), pp. 77-113
Kingah S., degli Uberti S. (2015) “Has South Africa the Spine for Global Leadership?”, in S. Kingah and C. Quiliconi (eds), Global and Regional Leadership of Brics Countries, Springer Press, pp. 209-224
degli Uberti S. (2014) “Culture delle Migrazioni”, in B. Riccio, Antropologia e Migrazioni, CISU, pp. 21-33
degli Uberti S. (2014) “Victims of their Fantasies or Heroes for a Day? Media Representations, Local History and Daily Narratives on Boat Migrations from Senegal”, in Cahiers d’Études Africaines, LIV (1-2), 213-214, pp. 81-113
Riccio B., degli Uberti S. (2013) “Senegalese Migrants in Italy. Beyond the Assimilation/Transnationalism Divide”, in Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 42, pp. 207-254
degli Uberti S. (2011) “Turismo e immaginari migratori. Esperienze dell’Altrove nel Senegal urbano“, in Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 13 (1), pp. 67-83.