Beginners No More Italy as a Mature Country of Immigration

Corrado Bonifazi is a demographer and Director of Research of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He was Director of the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS) of the CNR from July 2014 to June 2018. He directs the research unit on “Populations and migrations” of the IRPPS and chaired the Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) on 'International migration in Europe' from May 2002 to March 2009. He has been project leader in various research projects on international and internal migration. He participated also in the OECD research on the “Future of migration” and was a member of the Italian team in the Eurostat research on “Push and pull factors of international migration”. He was team leader of a research unit in the European project “Mediterranean and Eastern European countries as new immigration destinations in the European Union” (IDEA). He is member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Studi Emigrazione. He has numerous publications in migration field.

Ivana Fellini has a degree in Economic & Social Sciences at Bocconi University of Milano, Italy, a Phd in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, and is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research. Her main research interests cover the labour market functioning and trends of change in comparative perspective, with special focus on employment and occupational change and, more recently, on low-skilled service workers. Among main trends of change, the economic incorporation of immigrants is a central area of study. In the field of migration studies, she published several contributions in national and international scientific journals.

Giuseppe Sciortino teaches Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy. He received his PhD from the University of Bologna. He has published widely on international migration, social theory and cultural sociology. Besides Trento, he has taught at Haverford College, the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Yale University (EPE Visiting professor, 2009-10) and University of Malmo (Willy Brandt Visiting Scholar, 2015-16). He has been the Chair of the Research Committee 16 ‘Sociological Theory’ of the International Sociological Association and he is currently the PI of the national research project Immigration, Integration, Settlement: Italian Style, financed by the Italian Ministry for education and research. Among his recent publications are: The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization (with Ron Eyerman) and Populism in the Civil Sphere (with Jeffrey C. Alexander and Peter Kivisto). In the last years he has published papers in American Sociologist, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Migration Letters, Sexualities.

Salvatore Strozza, Ph.D., is full professor in Demography at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He is President of the Italian Society of Economics, Demography and Statistics (SIEDS) and he has been both Vice-President and President of the Italian Association for Population Studies (AISP-SIS). His main field of research is international migration, with particular attention to sources and methods of measurement and estimates, the geographical distributions and segregation of foreign citizens, the measures and determinants of immigrant’s integration and the experience of the children of immigrants in the school system. He is the author of more than 250 articles or chapters in scientific journals, volumes and conference acts, the (co)author of some books (monographic volumes) and the (co)editor of fifteen volumes and five special issues of scientific journals. His most recent work is the edition, with M. Denisenko and M. Light of Migration from the Newly Independent States. 25 Years After the Collapse of the USSR.