Stratificazioni migratorie. Una prospettiva per indagare l’intreccio tra fenomeni migratori, trasformazioni sociali e processi di transculturazione

A New Theoretical-Analytical Perspective for Reading the In-terplay Between Migration Phenomena, Social Transformations, and Tranculturational Processes · Ithas been over 30 years since the publication of the first edition of Castles and Miller’s volume,which unequivocally defined the final stages of the capitalist mode of production as the “Ageof Migrations”. This seminal work contributed to the emergence of a new discipline equippedwith its own theoretical and analytical constructs. The article proposes the introduction of anovel analytical perspective: that of migratory stratifications. This concept refers to the over-lap of various migration phenomena persisting within the same context throughout history.Indeed, the same social landscape can be traversed, in different historical and social eras, by asuccession of immigrations, emigrations, and transits of diverse origins, carried out throughvarious modalities. A multitude of actors can play roles in these migratory events. These mi-gratory moments become ingrained in material artifacts and socio-cultural practices, leavingtraces that form overlapping and ever-evolving landscapes of memory.