Internal migrations in Italy in the 1920s revisiting the sources

Abstract

The history of internal migration in Italy has been addressed by various scholars, whose contributions offer a fairly precise picture of the migratory movements that affected the country, the Fascist period included. In many of these works there are also attempts to quantify the phenomenon: the numbers and the demographic characteristics of internal migrants. However, each of them essentially uses a single source or only partially uses the information contained therein. In this article, we propose a different approach, one in which all the information relating to the main stock and flow sources published by the National Statistical Institute is systematically exploited. In the article we offer an overview of internal migrations in Italy with reference to the 1920s.