Raffaele Bazurli
I am a postdoctoral researcher and teaching associate at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. I have been recently awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by UK Research and Innovation, for the project "Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities" (SPIMEC).
My research agenda is inherently interdisciplinary and focuses on urban governance and politics, immigrant integration and asylum, and social movements. I am especially interested in understanding how local officials and grassroots activists interact to shape governance in multi-level institutional settings, possibly breeding policy conflicts and subverting unwanted national policies. I explore these issues by looking at the welfare of irregular and forced migrants as well as of marginalised urban residents, with a focus on Europe and Latin America. Ultimately, I aim to pose broader questions on cities as key, innovative players in contemporary global governance, whose policy experiments may pave the way to a just, democratic, and sustainable future.
My research appears in political science, sociology, and geography journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; South European Society and Politics; the International Political Science Review; the Urban Affairs Review; Territory, Politics, Governance; Citizenship Studies; PS: Political Science and Politics; Politiche Sociali / Social Policies; and in various edited volumes. I have written policy reports and opinion pieces for assorted outlets and I have been involved in various public engagement initiatives, such as the impact project "Barrio Saldías" and the research-policy partnership "SIforREF." The British Academy, the European Union, the Government of Italy, the Research Council of Norway, and UK Research and Innovation have all supported my research.
I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology (2020) from Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, with a thesis on migration governance and social movements in Milan and Barcelona. I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (2022), at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (2021), and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2020-22). I have also held visiting research positions at the Institute for Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2018) and at the Urban School of Sciences Po-Paris (2018-19). I am a member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at Scuola Normale Superiore, of The City Centre at Queen Mary University of London, and of the Soli*City network at Toronto Metropolitan University.
More information: https://raffaelebazurli.com/
Supervisors: Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani, Paolo R. Graziano, Marc Parés, Joan Subirats, Patrick Le Galès, Francesca Campomori, Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Sam Halvorsen, Rachel Humphris, and Sarah Wolff
Address: Queen Mary, University of London
School of Geography
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
My research agenda is inherently interdisciplinary and focuses on urban governance and politics, immigrant integration and asylum, and social movements. I am especially interested in understanding how local officials and grassroots activists interact to shape governance in multi-level institutional settings, possibly breeding policy conflicts and subverting unwanted national policies. I explore these issues by looking at the welfare of irregular and forced migrants as well as of marginalised urban residents, with a focus on Europe and Latin America. Ultimately, I aim to pose broader questions on cities as key, innovative players in contemporary global governance, whose policy experiments may pave the way to a just, democratic, and sustainable future.
My research appears in political science, sociology, and geography journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; South European Society and Politics; the International Political Science Review; the Urban Affairs Review; Territory, Politics, Governance; Citizenship Studies; PS: Political Science and Politics; Politiche Sociali / Social Policies; and in various edited volumes. I have written policy reports and opinion pieces for assorted outlets and I have been involved in various public engagement initiatives, such as the impact project "Barrio Saldías" and the research-policy partnership "SIforREF." The British Academy, the European Union, the Government of Italy, the Research Council of Norway, and UK Research and Innovation have all supported my research.
I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology (2020) from Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, with a thesis on migration governance and social movements in Milan and Barcelona. I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (2022), at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo (2021), and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2020-22). I have also held visiting research positions at the Institute for Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2018) and at the Urban School of Sciences Po-Paris (2018-19). I am a member of the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at Scuola Normale Superiore, of The City Centre at Queen Mary University of London, and of the Soli*City network at Toronto Metropolitan University.
More information: https://raffaelebazurli.com/
Supervisors: Donatella della Porta, Manuela Caiani, Paolo R. Graziano, Marc Parés, Joan Subirats, Patrick Le Galès, Francesca Campomori, Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Sam Halvorsen, Rachel Humphris, and Sarah Wolff
Address: Queen Mary, University of London
School of Geography
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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Opinion piece written by Raffaele Bazurli and Enrico Padoan as a chapter of the book "I Giovani Salveranno l'Italia", edited by Samuele Mazzolini (2018).
You can buy the full book here: http://amzn.eu/bs1nvTn
Essays / Book Reviews
L’analisi dei dati raccolti ha reso evidente come il COVID-19 abbia esercitato un impatto differenziato sui percorsi di vita, le opportunità e i diritti dei migranti accolti nei vari tipi di strutture. Il tipo di struttura in cui ci si è trovati ad essere accolti allo scoppio della pandemia –con particolare riguardo ai CAS, Centri di Accoglienza Straordinaria o al SIPROIMI, Sistema di protezione per titolari di protezione internazionale e per minori stranieri non accompagnati – ha fatto la differenza, senza dimenticare i più di 600 mila richiedenti asilo e rifugiati che erano rimasti esclusi tout court dal sistema di accoglienza. Un altro elemento di differenziazione è legato ai contesti regionali e locali che hanno espresso diverse capacità e volontà politiche di attutire le conseguenze negative della crisi pandemica sui richiedenti asilo e rifugiati. Il COVID-19 ha prodotto quindi una ulteriore stratificazione di diritti, che in parte si è sommata e in parte è trasversale a quelle già osservate in precedenza. Nelle prossime sezioni descriviamo come tale stratificazione, e il conseguente aumento delle diseguaglianze, abbia preso forma. Concludiamo la nota con qualche spunto di riflessione su come interrompere la spirale di stratificazioni che abbiamo visto in atto durante la prima ondata pandemica.
Call for Papers
The aim of this panel is precisely to conceptualize, analyze, and compare sanctuary policies and practices across space and time. What are the actors, drivers, barriers, and outcomes of such city sanctuary policies and practices? How do they vary depending on national, local, and temporal contexts? What lessons do these varied sanctuary policies and practices hold for understanding the multi-level and multi-actor political dynamics of immigration and citizenship?
These research questions are important to ask from a theoretical point of view. Policy studies point out that vocal civil society organizations and sympathetic local government officials are crucial drivers of sanctuary policies and practices. These findings resonate with sociological, geographical, and anthropological research on “urban citizenship,” which emphasizes that cities are strategic sites for the mobilization of marginalized actors such as undocumented immigrants. In the context of the United States, political science scholarship on “immigration federalism” also highlights that partisanship is a key driving force of both anti- and pro-immigrant policies at various levels of government. Scholarship on European sanctuary policies and practices is more recent, and scholars have tended to use different theoretical lenses to study them. The “multi-level governance” perspective has promise for conceptualizing and explaining divergencies between national and local migration policy making and the subsequent conflicts across government tiers. By intersecting these and other strands of literature, this panel seeks to build a more coherent, comparatively-driven, and empirically-grounded framework to study sanctuary policies and practices across different geographical and temporal contexts.
Finally, this panel offers an excellent opportunity to discuss sanctuary policies and practices in the conference site city of Barcelona, where support for undocumented immigrants has become a top priority of local officials and activists alike. We hope to engage local stakeholders as guest speakers or commentators on the panel.
Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP).
University of Turin, 6-8 September 2018.
Chairs: Matteo Bassoli, Raffaele Bazurli, Fred Paxton.
Discussants: Tiziana Caponio, Giulio Citroni.
Opinion Pieces
Opinion piece written by Raffaele Bazurli and Enrico Padoan as a chapter of the book "I Giovani Salveranno l'Italia", edited by Samuele Mazzolini (2018).
You can buy the full book here: http://amzn.eu/bs1nvTn
L’analisi dei dati raccolti ha reso evidente come il COVID-19 abbia esercitato un impatto differenziato sui percorsi di vita, le opportunità e i diritti dei migranti accolti nei vari tipi di strutture. Il tipo di struttura in cui ci si è trovati ad essere accolti allo scoppio della pandemia –con particolare riguardo ai CAS, Centri di Accoglienza Straordinaria o al SIPROIMI, Sistema di protezione per titolari di protezione internazionale e per minori stranieri non accompagnati – ha fatto la differenza, senza dimenticare i più di 600 mila richiedenti asilo e rifugiati che erano rimasti esclusi tout court dal sistema di accoglienza. Un altro elemento di differenziazione è legato ai contesti regionali e locali che hanno espresso diverse capacità e volontà politiche di attutire le conseguenze negative della crisi pandemica sui richiedenti asilo e rifugiati. Il COVID-19 ha prodotto quindi una ulteriore stratificazione di diritti, che in parte si è sommata e in parte è trasversale a quelle già osservate in precedenza. Nelle prossime sezioni descriviamo come tale stratificazione, e il conseguente aumento delle diseguaglianze, abbia preso forma. Concludiamo la nota con qualche spunto di riflessione su come interrompere la spirale di stratificazioni che abbiamo visto in atto durante la prima ondata pandemica.
The aim of this panel is precisely to conceptualize, analyze, and compare sanctuary policies and practices across space and time. What are the actors, drivers, barriers, and outcomes of such city sanctuary policies and practices? How do they vary depending on national, local, and temporal contexts? What lessons do these varied sanctuary policies and practices hold for understanding the multi-level and multi-actor political dynamics of immigration and citizenship?
These research questions are important to ask from a theoretical point of view. Policy studies point out that vocal civil society organizations and sympathetic local government officials are crucial drivers of sanctuary policies and practices. These findings resonate with sociological, geographical, and anthropological research on “urban citizenship,” which emphasizes that cities are strategic sites for the mobilization of marginalized actors such as undocumented immigrants. In the context of the United States, political science scholarship on “immigration federalism” also highlights that partisanship is a key driving force of both anti- and pro-immigrant policies at various levels of government. Scholarship on European sanctuary policies and practices is more recent, and scholars have tended to use different theoretical lenses to study them. The “multi-level governance” perspective has promise for conceptualizing and explaining divergencies between national and local migration policy making and the subsequent conflicts across government tiers. By intersecting these and other strands of literature, this panel seeks to build a more coherent, comparatively-driven, and empirically-grounded framework to study sanctuary policies and practices across different geographical and temporal contexts.
Finally, this panel offers an excellent opportunity to discuss sanctuary policies and practices in the conference site city of Barcelona, where support for undocumented immigrants has become a top priority of local officials and activists alike. We hope to engage local stakeholders as guest speakers or commentators on the panel.
Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP).
University of Turin, 6-8 September 2018.
Chairs: Matteo Bassoli, Raffaele Bazurli, Fred Paxton.
Discussants: Tiziana Caponio, Giulio Citroni.
Made with Niccolò Natali and Fulvio De Filippi.
Published by "Gli Stati Generali".
Full video available at:
http://www.glistatigenerali.com/immigrazione_milano/milano-20-maggio-breve-reportage-dal-cuore-pulsante-del-corteo/