GEOGRAFIA DELLA POPOLAZIONE E DEL TERRITORIO

M-GGR/01 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARIA SORBELLO


Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide the students with the skills needed to interpret the ongoing demographic processes that are reshaping the planetary scale territorial features. Particular attention is paid to international migration, which is a powerful factor in transforming not only the global economic but also social and cultural context.


Course Structure

Frontal lessons and film screening about migrations.



Detailed Course Content

Demographic processes on a global scale. Relationships between demographic dynamics and development in some macro-regions of the world. International migration flows in the 20th century. Mobility and migration flows in Italy from The Unit to the present day. Foreign immigration to Italy.



Textbook Information

A. Globalization of migratory movements and development processes (4 CFU).

Texts:

1. Wihtol de Wuenden C. (edited by Andrea Riggio, R.G. Maury), The new migrations. Places, men, politics, Pàtron, Bologna 2016, pp. 1- 150.

2. Livi Bacci M., The narrow planet, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2015, pp. 1-163.

3. Sorbello M., Perceived, conceived and lived space. The wounded identity and the consequent exodus of Palestinian Christians, Canterano (RM), Aracne, 2020, pp. 11-142.

B. Aspects of the migratory phenomenon in Italy and Sicily (2 credits)

Texts:

1. Bonifazi C., Italy of migration, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pp. 39-206

2. AA.VV., Sicily and the Mediterranean. Migration, Exchange, Reinvention, edited by Claudia Karagoz and Giovanna Summerfield, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, pp. 1-12, 61-76, 151-194.

 

N.B.: A good geographical Atlas is an indispensable tool for studying the discipline. For this purpose, we recommend the use of the latest edition of the "New De Agostini Method Atlas".

 

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The reference texts can be consulted in the library.




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