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

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo
  Migration movies database - Dataset

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena;PICCOLI, Lorenzo;MANTHA-HOLLANDS, Ashley
  Configurations of citizenship governance : membership asymmetries in times of crisis - Article

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo
  Migration representation in movies from 1940 to 2024 : the spectacle of human mobility and the North-bound bias - Article

• Authors: DENNISON, James;PICCOLI, Lorenzo;DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana
  Migration communication campaigns : towards a research agenda and open database - Article

• Authors: WANNER, Philippe;PICCOLI, Lorenzo
  The migrant mortality penalty in a pandemic : disparities in COVID-19 mortality among foreign residents in Switzerland, 2020 - Article

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo;LEON SALVADOR, Erendira;MEIXNER-YUN, Tae Kyeong;MOVILEANU, Daniela Roxana;WALI AHMAD YAR, Ahmed
  Refugees as humanitarian actors : explaining the creation of organisations led by displaced and stateless persons in Europe - Working Paper

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo
  Directory of migration research institutions - Dataset

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo;JACOB-OWENS, Timothy Craig
  Regulating human movement in a global pandemic : 'essential travel' during COVID-19 - Article

• Authors: PICCOLI, Lorenzo;DENNISON, James;DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana
  Migration Communication Campaigns Database - Dataset

• Authors: DENNISON, James;PICCOLI, Lorenzo;DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana
  Migration communication campaigns : the state of the practice and an open database - Technical Report