POPULATION GEOGRAPHY

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. It also aims to stimulate the critical abilities of learners through analysis of intervention policies and experiences of international cooperation on migration.

Demographic processes on a global scale. Relationships between demographic dynamics and development in some macro-regions of the world. International migration flows in the twentieth century. Mobility and migration flows from Italy to today. Foreign Immigration in Italy.

A Globalization of migration and development processes (3 CFU).

Texts:

- Wihtol de Wuenden C. (a cura di Andrea Riggio, R.G. Maury), Le nuove migrazioni. Luoghi, uomini, politiche, Pàtron, Bologna 2016, pp. 166.

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

C Aspects of the migration phenomenon in Italy and Sicily (6 CFU)

Texts:

- Bonifazi C., L’Italia delle migrazioni, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pp. 1-299.

- 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.

- AA.VV., a cura di Francesca Krasna, Migrazioni di ieri e di oggi. In cammino verso una nuova società tra integrazione e globalizzazione, Pàtron, Bologna, 2013, pp. 43-234.

N.B.: A good geographical atlas is an indispensable tool for the study of the discipline. For this purpose, we recommend using the latest edition of «Nuovo Atlante Metodico De Agostini».

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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