Biography

Lorenzo Piccoli holds a PhD degree in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (2018). Currently, he leads the work of the Migration Policy Centre on teaching and training together with the School of Transnational Governance.

He has previously acted as the Scientific Coordinator of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research for Migration and Mobility Studies (2019 – 2021) and as Research Associate at the Global Citizenship Observatory (2018 – 2021). His research focuses on the multilevel politics of inclusion and exclusion of both regular and irregular migrants from basic rights, such as healthcare and voting.

He has published in BMC Public Health, Democratization, Ethnopolitics, European Political Science, International Migration Review, PLOS ONE, Regional & Federal Studies, and Regional Studies. His research has been featured in several international media, including Radio France International, Radio Svizzera Italiana, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

Recent research output

• DENNISON, James; PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana, Migration communication campaigns : towards a research agenda and open database - Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo, Offshoring asylum the Italian way : no model for others to follow - Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo, Pandemic citizenship - Contribution to book
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; PERNA, Roberta, Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants : the humanitarianism-equity dilemma - Article
• DENNISON, James; PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana, Migration communication campaigns : the state of the practice and an open database - Technical Report
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DENNISON, James; DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana, Migration Communication Campaigns Database - Dataset
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; GIANNI, Matteo; RUEDIN, Didier; ACHERMANN, Christin; DAHINDEN, Janine; HOFFMEYER-ZLOTNIK, Paula; NEDELCU, Mihaela; ZITTOUN, Tania, What is the nexus between migration and mobility? : a framework to understand the interplay between different ideal types of human movement - Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; RUEDIN, Didier; GEDDES, Andrew, A global network of scholars? : the geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications - Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo, Directory of migration research institutions - Dataset
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; KYRIAZI, Anna; MENDES, Mariana S., Resurrecting taboo policies? Explaining collective regularisations for unauthorised immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Europe - Working Paper