Ettore Recchi

Ettore Recchi is an academic and Director of the MA and PhD program in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris as well as a part-time professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on human mobility, social stratification, elites and European integration. From 1993–2002 he was assistant professor of sociology at the University of Florence and then associate professor of urban sociology from 2002 to 2009. The first project studies the impact of commercial flights on the spread of the coronavirus and the second, which received funding from the French National Research Agency, studies the COVID-19 lockdown experience in France.

Selected publications

Mobile Europe: The theory and practice of free movement in the EU, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Everyday Europe: Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent (with Adrian Favell, Fulya Apaydin et al.), Bristol : Policy press, 2019 'The Citizenship Gap in European Societies: Conceptualizing, Measuring and Comparing ‘Migration Neutrality’across the EU', International Migration, 2016, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 181–200. Gabrielli, L., Deutschmann, E., Natale, F., Recchi, E., & Vespe, M. 'Dissecting global air traffic data to discern different types and trends of transnational human mobility', EPJ Data Science, 2019, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1–24. Recchi, E. et al. 'The "Eye of the Hurricane" Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France', Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2020, Vol. 68, 100508.