Stefano degli Uberti

First Researcher. He is a socio-anthropologist and is involved in the research activity "Populations and Migrations" where he mainly deals with the anthropology and ethnography of migration and the study of the processes of social change.

First Researcher

Rome

stefano.degliuberti@irpps.cnr.it

+39 06 492724 269

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Stefano degli Uberti is a First 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 Substitute Representative of the CNR 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.

Dott. degli Uberti (Bachelor, Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Master, Sussex University; PhD, University of Bergamo) was Visiting Researcher at theUNU-CRIS in Belgium and has taught at the Universities of Bergamo, Bologna and at theUNU-MERIT in the Netherlands.
In addition to his research activities, he worked as a deputy contact person of a reception center for asylum seekers and refugees in South Tyrol. You have also worked as a migration project officer for humanitarian associations, national institutions and international organizations (including the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, ICMP extension e Agriconsulting Europe SA).

Since his postgraduate studies, Dr. degli Uberti's research has mainly focused on the qualitative analysis of the relationship between migration and development through a transnational approach. The attention was focused on the social construction of migration both in the context of departure and in that of arrival, from the point of view of the multiple actors involved, not only migrants.
Working mainly in Italy and Senegal, research on migrations has also extended to topics such as: integration and diversity (social representations and multiculturalism), associations, tourism and social changes and, more recently, decision-making processes related to the practices of ( im)mobility (culture of migration, migratory aspirations and 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 - financed by the Ministry of the Interior - FAMI funds) which provided support to the Reception Observatory through the implementation of Guidelines aimed at setting up a national monitoring system.
In the wake of this research area, the ethnographic gaze has turned to the analysis of the historical stratifications of the reception system to examine the practices and political mechanisms that inform the life experience of asylum seekers and refugees, particularly on the border Italian-Austrian.

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 perspective and demographic.
Since August 2022 he has been coordinator of the CNR research unit for the H2020 multidisciplinary project FUME (Future Migration Scenarios for Europe) aimed at determining and predicting current and future trends in migration to Europe at multiple levels (international, national, regional and local).

Curriculum and updated 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 LN, 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 Mediterranean Anthropological Archive, 21 (2),
degli Uberti S. (2019) 'Migrating while staying at home'. Mobility practices and migratory imaginations in Senegal, in B. Riccio (eds.), Mobility. Ethnographic forays, Milan: Mondadori, pp.23-63
degli Uberti S., Pelliccia A. (2019) “The socio-cultural dimensions of low fertility. Between continuity and change". The Journal of Social Policies, 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, p. 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) "Cultures of Migrations", in B. Riccio, Anthropology and Migrations, 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, p. 207-254
degli Uberti S. (2011) “Tourism and migratory imaginaries. Elsewhere experiences in urban Senegal", In Mediterranean Anthropological Archive, 13 (1), p. 67-83.