Politică și demografie: o privire asupra emigrației italiene între cele două războaie mondiale

Migrations represent a factor of great historical significance that contributes to redrawing the ethnographic map of the world over the long term. Undoubtedly, Italy has been one of the main players in these migratory movements to such an extent that, in the past, th e history of Italian population mobility has been predominantly traced based on the series of expatriations. This fact is not surprising, given that, as is well known, the outflow has long characterised the Italian labour market, and official sources allow us to track its evolution for over a century. The main purpose of this work is to briefly illustrate Italian emigration between the two world wars (1916 1942), describing the migratory flows in their origins and destinations as well as in their composition and main characteristics. Linking the migrato ry phenomenon to the main demographic and socioeconomic indicators of Italian history during those years reveals the extent to which political orientations influenced this phenomenon. In particular, during the considered period, the war itself, the post war restrictions imposed by the main immigration countries, and then, to some extent, the attitudes of the Fascist government regarding migration abroad, greatly reduced this mobility, e rasing long establi shed habits and breaking those „ ch ains that ensured the continuity of emigration across generations. Finally, a reflection on how globalisation, international migrations, and political cultures have mostly been treated separately, disregarding their complex interrelationships. After all, while migration and globalisation have been discussed for some time, only more recently attention has begun to be paid to the transformations taking place in European political cultures as a result of both globalisati on and European unification.