Magda Bolzoni
Politecnico di Torino
Italy

Magda Bolzoni is Assistant Professor (RtdA) at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy), where she teaches Urban Sociology. She holds a PhD in Sociology and she has spent periods of study and research at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Ryukoku University (Japan), where in 2017 she was a JSPS Fellow with a project on migrants and urban transformations. Her researches focus on issues of urban change and gentrification, socio-spatial stratification and inequalities, and she has worked extensively on migration and forced migration, with a qualitative and multilevel approach, also collaborating with FIERI and Fondazione Migrantes.

Davide Donatiello
University of Turin
Italy

Davide Donatiello is a researcher and professor at the University of Turin. He holds a PhD in Comparative Social Research and has researched Romanian migration in Italy, publishing a book (Farsi una reputazione, Rome 2013) on the ways in which migrants establish a reputation for themselves in the labor market. He has also published on migrants as part of the middle class and on the self-employed, and worked on projects concerning local development and practices and policies of parenthood.

Leila Giannetto
European University Institute
Italy

Leila Giannetto is Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute, where she works on the Horizon project “Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe (PRIME)”. Previously she has worked with Fieri and Euricse as research fellow and with IOM, CPMR and CIDOB as consultant and integration expert. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Trento in 2018 with a thesis titled “More than consultation. Civil society organizations mainstreaming fundamental rights in EU border management policies: the case of Frontex and its Consultative Forum”. Her research interests are on borders and fundamental rights, on civil society organizations’ role in the governance of migration, EU border management and asylum, and on the reception and integration of refugees and asylum seekers in EU member states and in remote areas.