GEOGRAFIA DELLA POPOLAZIONE E DEL TERRITORIO

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.

Frontal lessons and film screening about migrations.

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. Foreign immigration to Italy.

A. Globalization of migration movements and development processes (4 ECTS)

Texts:

- C. Wihtol de Wenden, Le nuove migrazioni. Luoghi, uomini, politiche, ed. A. Riggio and R.G. Maury Bologna, Pàtron, 2016, pp. 1- 150.

- M. Livi Bacci M., Il pianeta stretto, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015, pp. 1-163.

- M. Sorbello, Spazio percepito, concepito e vissuto. L’identità ferita e il conseguente esodo dei cristiani palestinesi, Roma, Aracne, 2020, pp. 11-142.

B. The migration phenomenon in Italy and Sicily (2 CFU)

Texts:

- C. Bonifazi, L’Italia delle migrazioni, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013, pp. 39-206.

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

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.