Foreign population and territory:integration processes, demographic imbalances, challenges and opportunities for the social and economic sustainability of the different local contexts

Final Conference PRIN 2022 – PNRR research project “For. Pop. Ter”Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico IIVia Leopoldo Rodinò 22,12-13 February 2026 Aula G4

10:30 Keynote Speech

• Residential segregation: theory and empirical evidence from Europe – Szymon Marcińczak,(University of Lodz, Poland)

11:30 Session 1 – Foreign population and territory: integration processes, demographic imbalances,
challenges and opportunities for the social and economic sustainability of the different local contexts
Chair: G. Gabrielli (University of Naples Federico II) Discussant: A. Naccarato (University of
Rome Tre)

• Residential segregation in Southern European urban areas: Unravelling the neighbourhood-effects and ethnic disparities in the city of Catania (Italy) – Francesca Bitonti, Daniela Ghio, Alessio Buonomo, Angelo Mazza
• In search of divided spaces: socioeconomic vulnerability and foreigners’ settlement patterns in the main cities of Northern and Southern Italy – Federico Benassi, Maria Carella, Thais Garcia Pereiro,Anna Paterno, Salvatore Strozza
• Residential (im)mobility and settlement patterns of selected foreign communities in six Italian metropolitan cities: A (pseudo) longitudinal analysis (2011-2021) – Federico Benassi, Alessio Buonomo, Raffaele Ferrara, Rosaria Simone, Salvatore Strozza
• Spatial heterogeneity in migration patterns of nationals and non-nationals in Southern Italy: Reassessing the (apparent) centre–inner area dichotomy – Federico Benassi, Alessio Buonomo, Frank Heins, Francesca Licari

13:00 Light lunch

14:00 Keynote Speech
From assimilation and integration to rejection: Different dimensions of immigrant integration in
European cities based on the Spanish case – Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual (University ‘Pablo de
Olavide’, Seville, Spain)

15:00 Session 2 – Foreign population and territory: the urban dimension (in two books)
Moderated by: R. Pace (University of Bari Aldo Moro) Discussant: G. Blangiardo (University of
Milano Bicocca), C. Colucci (CNR-ISMed).

Presentation of the book “Gli immigrati di Napoli e le Napoli degli immigrati” , Collana ISMU, Franco
Angeli, Milano, 2025 – Alessio Buonomo, Federico Benassi, Elena de Filippo, Salvatore Strozza
(Eds.)

Moderated by: P. Grassi (Corriere del Mezzogiorno) Discussant: C. Bonifazi (CNR-IRPPS);
F. Sbrana (University for Foreigners of Perugia)

Presentation of the book “Due approdi sul Mediterraneo. Migrazioni e presenza straniera a Genova e
Napoli” , Collana È ancora Mezzogiorno, IOD, Napoli, 2025 – Federico Benassi, Francesco
Dandolo (Eds.)

09:30 Round table
Foreign population and territory: theoretical needs and empirical challenges in interpreting and
measuring complex processes
Moderated by: F. Benassi (University of Naples Federico II)
Panellists:

• Tommaso Vitale (Science Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative
  Politics, Dean of the Sciences Po Urban School), Raffaele Ferrara (Senior researcher,Demographic Census Division, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome),
• Anna Paterno (President of the Italian Association for Population Studies – Italian Society
  of Statistics, AISP – SIS), Salvatore Strozza (President of the Italian Society of Economics,
  Demography and Statistics, SIEDS).

11:00 Concluding remarks

• What legacy from the For Pop Ter project and what future prospects? Remarks by: Federico Benassi (PI For. Pop. Ter), Maria Carella (AI For. Pop. Ter),Angelo Mazza (AI For.Pop.Ter)

11:30 Excursion through multicultural Naples

With the patronage of: Società Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica (SIEDS), Italian Society of Economics, Demographic and Statistical Studies, Associazione Italiana Studi di Popolazione (AISP), Sezione della Società Italiana di Statistica (SIS), Italian Association for Population Studies, Section of the Italian Statistical Society

Funded by: Foreign population and territory: integration processes, demographic imbalances, challenges and opportunities for the social and economic sustainability of the different local contexts (For. Pop. Ter) Project code P2022WNLM7 CUP E53D23019190001

Scientific and Organising Secretariat: Federico Benassi, Alessio Buonomo, Miriam Carella, Giuseppe Gabrielli, Angelo Mazza, Salvatore Strozza

Contacts: federico.benassi@unina.it

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