She’s assistant professor (permanent status) at the DISFOR (Sciences of Education Department) of the University of Genoa (Italy) and Professor on Sociology of Education and Sociology of Family at Sciences of Education Faculty, University of Genoa. Her fields of interest and research are focused on international migration process, in particular: second generation and inequalities; gender and migration; families and youth in migration process.
She is the director of the advanced course “Urban fragility management. The role of the social worker in the quality of life” January 2020, and she’s the director of the Master “The managers of responsible centers for the refugees, asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection” University of Genoa, February 2018.
She is a member of the editorial staff and referee for the Mondi Migranti Review, Franco Angeli.
She had a visiting Research Scholar at Department of Sociology and Antropology, Fordham University, New York, on September 2011; at the CESPLA (Centro de Estudios sociales y politicos latinoamericanos) Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador) and FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) Quito (Ecuador), January-April 2005; at Gino Germani Institute- UBA, Buenos Aires, July- September 2005 and June 2018.
Selected publications
2019 with Deborah Erminio (eds.), Più vicini che lontani. Seconde generazioni e percorsi di cittadinanza, GUP (Genoa University Press)
2019, with S. Castellani, Il dibattito sulla protezione sociale transnazionale, in “Mondi Migranti”, vol3/2019, Franco Angeli
2016, with S. Castellani, The unseen protagonists. Ecuadorian’s daughters between Ecuador and Southern Europe, in “Social Identities”, vol. 22, Routledge.
2015, with G. Herrera (eds.), Il ritorno: miti e realtà di una nuova fase migratoria, e Introduzione, Mondi Migranti, n.3.
2015, La ricerca con i migranti: video, etnografia e ricerca-azione, in Stagi L., Queirolo Palmas L., Fare Sociologia Visuale, Professional Dreamers.
2014, Familias en movimiento: mas allà de los estereotipos de la maternidad transnacional, Papeles del CEIC, 2014/2, Universidad de País Vasco.
2014, with C. Pagnotta Discursos y acciones sobre la sexualidad entre adolescentes ecuatorianas en Génova, Quaderns de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia.
2014, with A. Ravecca A., Il passo seguente. I giovani di origine straniera all’Università, Franco Angeli, Milano
2011, with P. Boccagni, Migration and the Global Crisis: New Prospects for Return? The Case of Ecuadorians in Europe, Bulletin on Latin American Research
2006, Esodi e approdi di genere. Famiglie transnazionali e nuove migrazioni dall’Ecuador, Franco Angeli, Ismu.
Research projects
2018-2019: Coordinator of the research project “Le religioni come risorse sociali per i migranti” ( The religions as social resources for migrants)Centro Studi Medì, Genova
2017 – 2018: researcher in the project “Le seconde generazioni tra percorsi di cittadinanza e questioni identitarie” ( The second generations between citizenship paths and identity) coordinated by prof. Maurizio Ambrosini, Centro Studi Medì, Genova
2016 – 2019: researcher in the project “Global Social Protection: the Ecuadorian case”, coordinated by Peggy Levitt Wellesley College, Harvard Univerity, e con Sonia Parella, Gedime Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
2011 – 2012: Coordinator of the research project “Il passo seguente. Studenti immigrati iscritti all’Università di Genova” (The next step. Immigrant university students at the Genoa University), Medì Center for Migration Studies, Genova
2008 – 2009: Coordinator of the research project “Famiglie transnazionali e ricongiungimenti in Liguria: dalla coscenza all’intervento sociale” (Transnational families and reunifications in Liguria), Medì, Center for Migration Studies, Genova
2009 – 2010: Coordinator of the research project “De eso no se habla.Percezioni delle sessualità nei giovani latinoamericani” (Sexuality perception in young latinamerican people), Center for Migration Studies, Medì, Genova
2008 – 2011 Researcher for a European Project, Eumargins, Young Adult Immigrants in Seven European Countries,VII programma Quadro
2006 – 2008 Researcher for a European Project, TRESEGY, Transnational Research on Second Generation Youth, VI programma Quadro
2005 – 2006 Research fellow at the Investigation Institute Gino Germani, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (UBA) for the European Project Alfa –Transmigrared
