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; RUEDIN, Didier; GEDDES, Andrew (2023), A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications, 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
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; KYRIAZI, Anna; MENDES, Mariana S. (2023), Resurrecting taboo policies? Explaining collective regularisations for unauthorised immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Europe, Working Paper
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; DZANKIC, Jelena; RUEDIN, Didier; JACOB-OWENS, Timothy Craig (2022), Restricting human movement during the COVID-19 pandemic : new research avenues in the study of mobility, migration, and citizenship, Article
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; RUEDIN, Didier (2022), Local-to-local electoral connections for migrants : the association between voting rights in the place of origin and the propensity to vote in the place of residence, Article