Tina Magazzini
| AREA | RESEARCH GROUP | |
|---|---|---|
| Sociology | Applied Social Sciences Research Group |
With an interdisciplinary background spanning political science, sociology, human rights and migration studies, my experience and research focus on migration, minority rights and comparative public policy. I studied at the University of Florence, CCNY and the University of Deusto (where I completed a Marie Curie PhD in human rights), and I am co-founder and co-director of INTEGRIM Lab, a non-profit organisation that provides evidence-based research on migration, integration and social justice.
I have worked in research centres and international organisations in the United States, Belgium, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Portugal. In 2023-2024, I was a Maria Zambrano Distinguished Researcher at the University of A Coruña, where I (co-)taught History and Theory of Migratory Movements in the Master's programme in Social Policies and Socio-Community Intervention (MOPS).
Beyond my academic research, I regularly contribute to public outreach platforms (openDemocracy, Religion & Diplomacy, Policy & Politics blog, GLOBALCIT) and collaborate with filmmakers, photographers, and documentary film festivals such as Film Geographies and Middle East Now. Since 2019, I have been included in #100esperte, a database of Italian women experts in international politics developed by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) with the support of the European Commission, which aims to modernise media language that neglects women as experts.
My research focuses on inclusion/exclusion policies from a comparative perspective and on the dynamics of recognition and power between majorities, minorities and states. I am particularly interested in how identity categories are created, maintained and institutionalised in different environments.
This includes (and entails) questioning assumptions about the integration of migrants and religious minorities that often underpin harmful and discriminatory policies.
My aim is to contribute, on the one hand, to the de-exceptionalisation of committed and activist research, directing analytical attention towards the claims of neutrality and detachment that prevail in much of academic practice. On the other hand, my goal is to work collaboratively to promote policy-making based on knowledge and applied research practices.