GEOGRAPHY OF TERRITORIES AND PEOPLES

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Maria SORBELLO

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, the objectives of the course are to develop:

• knowledge and understanding of the main issues inherent to human geography, such as, for example, the fundamental role of human work in the creation of different places, landscapes, cultural values ​​and political assets in the world;

• the ability to recognize and describe the different demographic processes taking place in the various areas of the world

• the ability to apply the method of analogies and between the current demographic dynamics and the consequent territorial arrangements in the various areas (inland-coast, rural and urban areas, Asia, Americas, Africa, Europe, Oceania.

• the ability to develop independent judgment on the knowledge acquired and to make decisions in responsible and conscious way;

• the ability to use the knowledge acquired to document, report and effectively communicate particular aspects relating to issues of environmental degradation and excessive pressure of the population in the poorest and most fragile areas of our planet.

The course aims to provide students with the skills necessary for the interpretation of the ongoing demographic processes that are reshaping the territorial structures on a planetary scale. Particular attention is paid to international migration, as a powerful factor of global transformation not only of the economic context, but also of the social and cultural one.

Course Structure

Lectures and film screening about migrations.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

Demographic processes on a global scale. Relationships between demographic dynamics and development in some macro-regions of the world. International migration flows in the 20th century. Mobility and migration flows in Italy. Foreign immigration to Italy.

Textbook Information

A. Globalizzazione dei movimenti migratori e processi di sviluppo (4 ECTS).

1.         Wihtol de Wuenden C. (a cura di Andrea Riggio, R.G. Maury), Le nuove migrazioni. Luoghi, uomini, politiche, Pàtron, Bologna 2016, pp. 1- 150.

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

3.         Sorbello M., Spazio percepito, concepito e vissuto. L’identità ferita e il conseguente esodo dei cristiani palestinesi, Canterano (RM), Aracne, 2020, pp. 11-142.

 

B. Aspetti del fenomeno migratorio in Italia e in Sicilia (2 ECTS)

Testi:

4.         Bonifazi C., L’Italia delle migrazioni, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, pp. 39-206

5.         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.

 

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.

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