Biography

Lorenzo Piccoli leads the work of the Migration Policy Centre on teaching and training together with the School of Transnational Governance.

He holds a PhD degree in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (2018) and has previously worked as 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 politics of inclusion and exclusion of international migrants from basic rights, such as healthcare, voting, and welfare. His research has been featured in several international media, including Radio France International, Radio Svizzera Italiana, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Completed

• Citizenship, migration and mobility in a pandemic: a global study of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement - CMMP-19

Recent research output

• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; PERNA, Roberta (2024), Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants : the humanitarianism-equity dilemma, Article
• DENNISON, James; PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana (2024), Migration communication campaigns : the state of the practice and an open database, Technical Report
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DENNISON, James; DA SILVA CARMO DUARTE, Mariana (2024), Migration Communication Campaigns Database, Dataset
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; GIANNI, Matteo; RUEDIN, Didier; ACHERMANN, Christin; DAHINDEN, Janine; HOFFMEYER-ZLOTNIK, Paula; NEDELCU, Mihaela; ZITTOUN, Tania (2024), 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 (2023), A global network of scholars? : the geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications, Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo (2023), Directory of migration research institutions, Dataset