Ricerc@Sapienza

The objective of this essay is to offer an original contribution to the issue of Italian migration to Africa from a historical-economic perspective. Our research will consider the motivations that led many Italians to emigrate to Tunisia and Libya and, secondly, it will explore what was the return path from Tunisia and Libya for Italian emigrants. The cases discussed investigate two different realities of Italian emigration, a ‘free’ migration toward a country colonised by others and a migration imposed and sponsored by the Italiangovernment.

This article highlights essential issues concerning Italy’s role in the world as a source of innovation and creativity through the analysis of important Russian-Italian relations and cooperation, which date back from the 14th century. The period focussed upon in this paper is the last twenty years. Migration statistics are used to describe the intellectual migration from Italy to Russia in the years from 1997 to 2016.