Ettore Recchi
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Ettore Recchi Professor of sociology |
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I am a full professor of sociology at Sciences Po, Paris. I am also a part-time professor at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where I received my PhD in Social and Political Sciences.
My main research foci are human mobility (in its different forms), social stratification, elites, and European integration. I am the author of about two hundred publications in English, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Dutch, including monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, and journal articles. As my publications attest, I am a quantitative-oriented, theory-driven, empirical sociologist especially committed to comparative research. Being convinced of the grounded nature of sociological knowledge, I maintain that the development of the discipline needs more large-scale, cooperative inquiries on the field. Along this line, I have made an effort to promote a number of projects exploring the broad theme of 'mobility'. I have coordinated a 5th Framework Program research project on intra-EU migration (the PIONEUR project), a project on the civic and political participation of intra-EU migrants (the MOVEACT project) also funded by the European Commission as part of the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship program, and a 7th Framework Program research project on 'the Europeanisation of everyday life' (the EUCROSS project). Currently I've developed a model of individuals' relationship with space over the lifecourse (Space-Sets) and a large-scale assemblage and analysis of data on human mobilities (the Global Mobilities Project). In 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemics, I led a team of Sciences Po researchers studying the lockdown experience in France with a pre-existing longitudinal panel (ELIPSS) (CoCo Project).