relations. The point is made that they bring along untested spadai concepts, neglect the role of the state and institutions in the selection of migration goals and do not pose the question of the complexity of the labour market. Finally it is demonstrated that these models consider the societies of origin in a perspective which, on the one hand, rates established residence a priori higher than migration, and on the other hand privileges individuals and nuclear families in comparison with broader kinship and clientelistic social groups.
PIER PAOLO VIAZZO, "MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN THE ALPINE REGION: DEMOGRAPHIC SCENARIOS AND SOCIO-STRUCTURAL FACTORS"
This article draws a brief balance of the results provided by historical-demographic research into the alpine region in the past two decades and emphasizes its implications for migration and mobility studies. Research has shown that alpine population history was not characterized by high pressure regimes, but generally by finely calibrated systems in which a relatively slight mortality was counterbalanced by a restricted natality. Thus serious doubt is cast upon the canonical image according to which the alpine population was obliged to deliver its surpluses into the lowlands and form a human reservoir in the service of more prosperous and dynamic economies. At the same time attention is drawn to a subject especially raised by anthropology, namely the influence of certain socio-structural factors (inheritance systems, community structures) upon the extent, composition, range, direction and chronology of alpine migratory movements.
CASIMIRA GRANDI, "ALPINE EMIGRATION OF A FEMALE KIND: THE BOUNDS OF THE POSSIBLE (17-20TH CENTURY)"
The object of the present contribution is a conceptual synthesis of female emigration from the alpine region in historical times in connection with positions in the family sphere. The basic thesis concerns a social mobility of
