Ettore Recchi est professeur de sociologie à Sciences Po Paris, ainsi que professeur à temps partiel au Migration Policy Centre (MPC) de l'Institut Universitaire Européen (EUI) à Florence. Il est membre associé de l’Institut Convergences Migrations (Paris).
Il a publié plus de 200 articles dans des revues scientifiques, chapitres d’ouvrages, documents de travail, volumes édités et monographies. Ses travaux ont été publiés dans des revues scientifiques généralistes (Scientific Reports), de sociologie (European Sociological Review), de science politique (West European Politics), de démographie (Demographic Research), d’études européennes (Journal of Common Market Studies), d’études migratoires (International Migration Review), de géographie (Political Geography), d’études globales (Global Networks), de méthodologie (Quality & Quantity) et de science des données (EPJ Data Science).
Son dernier ouvrage est The Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration (Elgar, 2024), coédité avec Mirna Safi. Il a dirigé plusieurs projets nationaux et internationaux sur la libre circulation en Europe, le transnationalisme, les migrations et l’impact du Covid-19 sur la vie sociale et la mobilité. En 2020, il a reçu le prix de la meilleure publication internationale dans la section Global and Transnational de l’American Sociological Association.
L’agenda de recherche principal de Ettore Recchi porte sur les questions liées à la mobilité humaine, en explorant les moteurs et les conséquences de l’expansion unique des déplacements individuels dans l’espace à notre époque. Il interroge la durabilité culturelle, économique, politique et environnementale de la mobilité géographique à travers des analyses empiriques micro- et macro-sociologiques.
Au niveau micro, ses recherches s’intéressent à l’étude de la spatialité des univers de vie des individus (ou « ensembles spatiaux »). Au niveau macro, il dirige le Global Mobilities Project au MPC/EUI – un projet dédié à la collecte, la systématisation et l’analyse des données mondiales sur les mouvements de population et leurs conditions sociales, économiques et politiques sous-jacentes. Depuis 2024, le Global Mobilities Project fait partie du projet Migmobs, un travail collaboratif avec Adrian Favell (PI, University College Cork) et d’autres chercheurs à travers le monde.
Academic Presentations (selection)
- 2025 (with Tobias Grohmann and Luca Bernasconi), “Global Mobility Ginis: The Inequality of International Travel across 230 Countries, 1995-2022”, MPC-Globalcit Annual Conference, EUI, Fiesole, 9 May.
- 2025, “International Mobility as Supplementary Engine of Political Legitimacy”, MIGMOBS workshop, University College Cork, Cork, 20 February.
- 2024, "El mundo movil, el mundo inmóvil: Análisis de las disegualdades mondiales con el Global Mobilities Project", Universidad de La Habana, 11 July.
- 2024 (with Luca Bernasconi), "Potential Overstayers? Taking Stock of Flight Data for the Analysis of Irregular Migration", 21st IMISCOE yearly conference, ISCTE, Lisbon, 3 July.
- 2024, "People across Places: Transnational Mobility as ‘Degree Zero’ of Migration Studies", opening keynote, 21st IMISCOE yearly conference, ISCTE, Lisbon, 2 July.
- 2024, "Movilidad internacional y actitudes cosmopolitas: el ‘conjunto-espacio’ como categoría analítica", 15th Congreso de la Federación Española de Sociologia, Sevilla, 27 June.
- 2024, "El mundo movil, el mundo inmóvil: Análisis de las disegualdades mondiales con el Global Mobilities Project", INCASI Talk, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 18 April.
- 2024 (with Luca Bernasconi), "What Commercial Flights Can Tell about Irregular Migration", workshop “Pilot studies on irregular migration”, MirreM project, University of Potsdam, 18 March.
- 2024, "Cultural Fragmentation as Externality of the Liberal Script? A Formal Analysis of Value Change Across 51 National Societies (1995-2020)", BIRT seminar presentation, Freie Universität, Berlin, 14 March.
- 2024 (with Tobias Grohmann), "Exploring The Multifaceted Nature of Transnational Human Mobility: The Global Mobilities Project and the Migmobs Project", workshop “Regime Entanglements: Mobility, Citizenship and the Law”, GLOBALCIT Centre, European University Institute, Florence, 6 March.
- 2023 (with Luca Bernasconi), "Coming and not Going Back: Potential Air Overstayers in the Schengen Area", MirreM project workshop, University of Milan, Milan, 6 October.
- 2023 (with Andrew Zola), "Do You Think You Stand Where You Actually Stand? The interplay of subjective and objective social status in 10 industrialized countries (2002-2021)", RC28 Summer Conference, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, 26 June.
- 2023 (with Marta Veljkovic and Andrew Zola), "Assessing the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Economic Well-Being in France (2019-2022)" , RC28 Spring Conference, Paris, 25 May.
- 2023, "Per una sociologia della mobilità umana", keynote lecture, 5th Mondi Migranti Conference “La questione sociale delle migrazioni”, Università di Milano, 28 April.
- 2023 (with Luca Bernasconi), "Exploring Flight Passenger Data for Measuring Irregular Migration", MirreM project workshop “Innovative approaches to measuring irregular migration”, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 25 April.
- 2022, "Assessing the Permeability of Global Land Borders", 19th IMISCOE Conference, Oslo, 1 July.
- 2022, "How Permeable are State Borders Worldwide?Towards a Global Index, paper presentation", MPC Annual Conference “Change and Continuities in a Migration World”, EUI, Florence, 23 May.
- 2022, "States as Gatekeepers: Lessons from Macro-Empirical Research on Visas and Borders Globally", keynote at MAPS (Migration and Asylum Policy Systems) Research Network, final conference, Università Orientale, Naples, 20 May.
- 2022, "How Permeable are State Borders Worldwide?" Global Development Network (GDN), Methodological Deep Dive Lecture online, 18 May.
- 2022, "The Civic Stratification of Status and Class Attainment: Micro- and macro-level effects of immigration on intergenerational social mobility in Europe, paper presentation", ISA-RC28 Conference, LSE, 21 April.
- 2022, "Human Mobility and National Borders in a Post-Covid World", Three Lectures, “Critical Conversations”, American Library in Paris, April and May.
- 2021, "Comparing the social, economic and cultural impact of Covid-19 on Europeans with high-quality survey data", workshop organizer, Sciences Po/OSC, 9 December.
- 2021, "Flows, Borders and Controls: Assessing Transnational Mobility on a Global Scale", Migration & Big Data Workshop, Institut Convergences Migration (Dynamics Department), Paris, 25 November.
- 2021, « Faire face au Covid: les reactions de la population française", Conférence « Les expériences de la vulnérabilité dans l’épidémie de Covid-19 », Université de Lille, 12 November.
- 2021, "COVID-19: Lessons for Sociologists", Webinar Researching and Understanding COVID Societies: Sociology and Beyond, International Science Council and International Sociological Association, 25 October. https://council.science/events/covid-sociology/ (video)
- 2021 (avec H. Rapoport, J-P. Cassarino et E. Galbis), « La libre circulation, centre de gravité de la politique migratoire de l’Union Européenne », Roundtable « Repenser la politique migratoire européenne », Festival des Sciences Sociales, "Tout migre ?”, EHESS, Marseille, 25 Septembre.
- 2021, « Résilience, Continuité, Proximité : Les Français durant l’année Covid », Table ronde de l'Union des Entreprises de Proximité (U2P), Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, 16 Septembre.
- 2021, "Sociology of Europe: What is it about? What have we learnt?" Closing keynote, CIVICA Summer School, EUI, Florence, 9 September.
- 2021 (with M. Pasqualini, E. Ferragina, M. Safi), "Coping with Covid-19: Who suffered the most and why? An exploration of well-being with panel data among the French population", 5th SISEC Conference, Catania, 11 June.
- 2021, "L’emigrazione di ricercatori e ricercatrici: dinamiche e determinanti", Cconference “Restare o partire? Migrazioni e carriere nella ricerca”, Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, 9 giugno.
- 2021, "Mobility After Covid-19", expert intervention at the CSS4P Workshop “Mapping the Demand Side for Computational Social Science for Policy”, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra, 26 May.
- 2021, "Pensare, misurare e governare le migrazioni", lecture at Accademia La Colombaria, Florence, 11 May.
- 2021, "The Airport Factor: Assessing the Impact of Aviation Mobility on the Spread of Covid-19", MPC/EUI Webinar, “International Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of Pandemics: New Data and Research”, 10 February. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmhBNNeURus&feature=youtu.be.