Stefano degli Uberti

Senior Researcher and socio-anthropologist, he is a member of the Populations and Migrations research area (POPMIG) and leads the project on Mobility, Borders and Inclusion (MOBI).

His research focuses on migration dynamics within a global framework, with particular attention to processes of (im)mobility between West Africa and Europe. Adopting an ethnographic approach, he investigates the broader mechanisms of social change linked to population movements, often in collaborative and multidisciplinary research contexts.

Rome

stefano.degliuberti@irpps.cnr.it

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Stefano degli Uberti is a researcher at this Institute in Rome. From February 2026, he serves as CNR Representative on the Board of the Italian section of the international network Scholars at Risk (SAR). He has previously been a Visiting Researcher at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS, 2012–2013) and has worked as a Migration Project officer for humanitarian associations, national institutions, and international organizations, including the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, ICMPD, and Agriconsulting Europe SA.

He has conducted multi-sited ethnographic research, primarily in Senegal and Italy, focusing on migration processes across multiple scales. His research interests encompass transnationalism; the migration–development nexus; social representations and the culture of migration; diversity and migration governance; migration and urban studies; tourism; and the relationship between mobility and immobility in migration decision-making processes (aspirations, motivations, and imaginaries).

He has participated in numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects (PRIN; AMIF, EU-H2020) where mixed-method approaches are applied. Along these lines, he studies asylum reception and integration mechanisms at the Italo-Austrian border from a historical-anthropological perspective. More recently, he also contributed to the CNR-IRPPS research unit of the METROmosaic project, which explores the motivations, drivers, and outcomes of migrants’ residential (im)mobility in the urban regions of Milan and Rome through demographic and socio-anthropological perspectives.

He has authored numerous essays published in edited volumes and in Italian and international journals.

Updated curriculum and publications are available here.

Main Publications

degli Uberti, S., Diop, L.E.N. & Sall, M. (2026). Trajectories of migration aspirations through urban and temporal lenses: rethinking (im)mobility decision-making in Dakar, Senegal. Comparative Migration Studies, 14, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-026-00537-4
Pelliccia, A., & degli Uberti, S. (2026). Staying to move: an ethnography of intra-urban residential (im)mobility in Rome’s Banglatown. Housing Studies, 1–24, vol. 42. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2026.2672380
Pelliccia, A., degli Uberti, S., & Masi, G. M. (2026). Toward a socio-anthropology of intra-urban residential (im)mobilities. The case of Filipino migrants in Italy. Mobilities, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2026.2619599
Crisci, M., degli Uberti, S., Pelliccia, A. and Santurro, M. (2025). Patterns and Motivations of Intra-Urban Residential Mobility in a Southern European Metropolis. The Case of Filipino Migrants in Rome. Journal of Population, Space and Place, 31: e2875. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2875
degli Uberti S., Altin R. (2024). Historical Layers of Refugee Reception in Border Areas of Italy. Crossroads of Transit and Temporalities of (Im)mobility. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 25(1), pp. 1133–1152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01125-0
Altin R., degli Uberti S. (2022). Placed in Time. Migration Policies and Temporalities of (Im)Mobility Across the Eastern European Borders. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 24 (3), pp.439-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448 953.2021.2015662
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. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 26(5), 528–551. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2021.1953777
degli Uberti S. (2019). Borders within. An ethnographic take on the reception policies of asylum seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol. Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 21 (2). https://doi.org/10.4000/aam.1887
degli Uberti S., Pelliccia A. (2019). Le dimensioni socio-culturali della bassa fecondità. Tra continuità e cambiamento. La Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, 4, pp.51-69. https://www.futura-editrice.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/05-degli-Uberti-Pelliccia.pdf
degli Uberti S., Riccio B. (2017). Imagining greener pastures? Shifting perceptions of Europe and mobility within contemporary Senegal. A diachronic grounded perspective. Journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research, 3, pp. 339-362. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3240/88710
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. Regions and Cohesion, 5 (2), pp. 77-113. https://doi.org/10.3167/reco.2015.050204
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. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22972-0_12
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. Cahiers d’Études Africaines, LIV (1-2), 213-214, pp. 81-113. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.17599
Riccio B., degli Uberti S. (2013). Senegalese Migrants in Italy. Beyond the Assimilation/Transnationalism Divide. Journal of Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 42, pp. 207-254. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24643190
degli Uberti S. (2011). Turismo e immaginari migratori. Esperienze dell’Altrove nel Senegal urbano. Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 13 (1), pp. 67-83. https://doi.org/10.7432/AAM130107