Biography

Ettore Recchi is part-time professor of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) as well as Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris (CRIS) and Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations. A methodologically versatile scholar, he has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes and monographs. His papers feature in journals of migration studies (e.g., International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies), sociology (e.g., European Sociological Review, Social Indicators Research), political science (e.g., West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies), demography (e.g., Demographic Research), geography (e.g., Political Geography), global studies (e.g., Global Networks), economics (e.g., World Development), general science (e.g., Scientific Reports), and data science (e.g., EPJ Data Science). He was awarded the 2020 prize of the American Sociological Association for the best international paper in the Global and Transnational Section. His latest book is Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration (Elgar, 2024), coedited with Mirna Safi. He has directed several national and international projects on free movement in Europe, transnationalism, migration, and the impact of COVID-19 on social life and mobility.

Recchi’s core research agenda revolves around issues of human mobility, investigating the unique expansion of individuals’ movements in space of our age. He questions the existential, political, sociocultural and environmental ramifications of spatial mobility through micro- and macro-level empirical analyses. At the micro-level, his research delves into the study of the spatiality of individuals’ lifeworlds (or ‘space-sets’). At the macro-level, he leads the Global Mobilities Project at MPC – a project dedicated to collecting, systematising and analysing worldwide data on population movements and their underpinning social, economic, and political conditions.

Research topics: mobilities, migration, transnationalism, Europe.
Geographic areas: Europe.

Recent research output

• Authors: RECCHI, Ettore;BERNASCONI, Luca;RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ, Alejandra
  Short-term visa, long-term stay? : estimating inflows of overstayers in the Schengen area using air passenger records and Facebook mobility data - Article

• Authors: DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel;GABRIELLI, Lorenzo;ORLOVA, Alexandra;HARDER, Niklas;RECCHI, Ettore
  A time penalty for the Global South? : inequalities in visa appointment wait times at German embassies and consulates worldwide - Article

• Editors: NAUMANN, Elias;BIOLCATI RINALDI, Ferruccio;NANDI, Alita;RECCHI, Ettore
  Social life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy and the UK - Book

• Authors: VELJKOVIC, Marta;RECCHI, Ettore;ZOLA, Andrew
  Household income mobility in France over the COVID-19 pandemic : losers and winners of the crisis - Article

• Authors: RECCHI, Ettore;GROHMANN, Tobias
  Tackling 'scandalous inequalities' : a global policy proposal for a Humanity Identity Card and Basic Income Supplement - Article

• Authors: RECCHI, Ettore
  Space-sets : introducing and testing a multi-dimensional measure of individual transnational mobility - Article

• Authors: RECCHI, Ettore;GABRIELLI, Lorenzo;GHIO, Daniela
  Revisiting acculturation research with big data : the case of the Italian diaspora through the lens of Facebook interests - Article

• Authors: KONECHNI, Bartholomew;RECCHI, Ettore
  The three acts of pandemic governance : a comparison between France, Germany, Italy, and the UK - Contribution to book

• Authors: NANDI, Alita;NAUMANN, Elias;MCMUNN, Anne;RECCHI, Ettore;MOLTENI, Francesco;DOTTI SANI, Giulia M.;SARTI, Simone
  Double vulnerability? : a cross-country comparison of inequalities in health, subjective wellbeing, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic - Contribution to book

• Authors: RECCHI, Ettore;BIOLCATI RINALDI, Ferruccio;NANDI, Alita;NAUMANN, Elias
  Introduction : social life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK - Contribution to book