Sciences Po

Ettore Recchi

Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). He is also part-time lecturer at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute in Florence. He has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes and monographs. His articles appear in journals in migration studies (e.g. International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies), sociology (e.g. European Sociological Review, Socius), 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. Nature/Scientific Reports) and data science (e.g. EPJ Data Science). He is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2020 award for best international article in the Global and Transnational Section. His latest books are Everyday Europe: Social Transnationalism in an Unsettled Continent (Policy Press, 2019), a co-authored work on European integration through geographical and virtual mobilities, and Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration (Elgar, 2024), co-edited with Mirna Safi. He has led several national and international projects on free movement in Europe, transnationalism, migration, global mobilities and the impact of COVID-19 on social life and inequalities.  

Recchi’s main research agenda revolves around human mobility and the inequalities it entails. He questions the existential, political, socio-cultural and environmental ramifications of geographic mobility through empirical analyses at the micro and macro levels. At the micro-level, his research focuses on the study of the spatiality of individuals’ life-worlds (or “space-sets”). At the macro level, he directs the Global Mobilities Project at MPC, a project dedicated to collecting, systematizing and analyzing global data on population movements and the social, economic and political conditions that sustain them.

ORCID: 0000-0001-7497-2150.