Dal "ritorno" alle visits home: Le tendenze di studio nell'ultimo trentennio

The article deals with an issue often neglected in the studies about the exodus of the Italians, and offers statistical evidence about the re-entry rate from the great migratory wave at the beginning of the new millennium. It draws also some conclusions from the data collected so far; data that range from discussions about the remittances, to the most recent investigations about "trans-nationality". The study examines further the stages of development of the process throwing some light on the transformations of the criteria to interpret migration during the last thirty years. Starting from the elaboration of different typologies for migration, and from the emphasis given to the consequences of re-entry upon the society of departure, we developed a perspective where what matters is the interaction among the generations of migrants in the social environment made up by different territorial references and the coming and going of people.