Role
Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where she teaches Sociology of Interethnic Coexistence and the Quantitative Social Research Laboratory. She also collaborates with the ISMU Foundation - Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity.
Bio
After graduating in International Relations and European Integration Sciences from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, she earned a PhD in Sociology and Social Research Methodology from the same institution in 2015, with a thesis on migrant integration processes in Sweden.
Since 2008, she has collaborated with the ISMU Foundation on issues of migrant integration, migration policies, ethnic-racial discrimination, and the socioeconomic inclusion of Roma and Sinti. Between 2017 and 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she conducted research on second-generation activism.
She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Rome, where she teaches Sociology of Interethnic Coexistence and the Quantitative Social Research Laboratory. She coordinates the COST Action VISTA, an international network of 222 researchers from 40 countries, and is the principal investigator of the European project ROMANì – Empowering Roma Women on the inclusion of Roma women, in collaboration with the ISMU Foundation and Caritas Ambrosiana.
Her main research interests focus on youth political activism, with a particular focus on the role of migration background and gender. She also studies the mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion affecting young people with migration backgrounds and the socioeconomic inclusion processes of Roma minorities.