
Paolo Boccagni
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Carriera accademica ed attività didattica |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Transnationalism Emotions on the move: Mapping the emergent field of emotion and migration (with L. Baldassar), Emotion, Space and Society, 16: 73-80, 2015. Rethinking transnational studies: Transnational ties and the transnationalism of everyday life, European Journal of Social Theory, 15(1): 117-32, 2012. Public, private or both? On the scope and impact of transnationalism in immigrants’ everyday lives. In R. Baubock, T. Faist (eds.), Diaspora and transnationalism: Concepts, theories and methods, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2010 (chapter 10: 185-205). Revisiting the “transnational” in migration studies: A sociological understanding, Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 28(1): 33-50, 2012 Transnazionalismo e percorsi familiari: profili di genere e di generazione a confronto nell’immigrazione ecuadoriana (with F. Lagomarsino), “Studi di Sociologia”, 4: 385-404, 2011 Tracce transnazionali: vite in Italia e proiezioni verso casa tra i migranti ecuadoriani, Milan, Angeli, 2009. Il transnazionalismo, fra teoria sociale e vita quotidiana dei migranti, “Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia”, 50(3): 519-43, 2009.
Transnational families and care Searching for wellbeing in care work migration: Constructions, practices and displacements among immigrant women in Italy, Social Politics, online first, 2015. Burden, blessing or both? On the mixed role of transnational ties in migrant informal social support, International Sociology, 30(3): 250-68, 2015. Care (and) circulation revisited: A conceptual map of diversity in transnational parenting (with P. Bonizzoni). In L. Baldassar, L. Merla (eds.), Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care, Routledge, 2013. Migration and the family transformations it ‘leaves behind’: a critical view from Ecuador, The Latin Americanist, 57(4): 3-24, 2013. Practising motherhood at a distance: Retention and loss in Ecuadorian transnational families, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(2): 261-77, 2012. Cercando il benessere nelle migrazioni: l’esperienza delle assistenti familiari straniere in Trentino (with M. Ambrosini), Milan, Angeli, 2012. Transnational family life and female migration in Italy: One or multiple patterns? (with L. Banfi). In E. Kofman et al. (eds), Gender, generations and the family in international migration, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2011 (chapter 12: 285-310). Come fare le madri da lontano? Percorsi, aspettative e pratiche della “maternità transnazionale” dall’Italia, “Mondi Migranti”, 3(1): 45-66, 2009. Il cuore in patria. Madri migranti e affetti lontani: le famiglie transnazionali in Trentino (with M. Ambrosini), Provincia autonoma di Trento, Servizio Politiche sociali, 2007 (chapters 2-3)
Remittances “Whom should we help first?”. Transnational helping practices in Ecuadorian migration, International Migration, 51(2): 191-208, 2013. Mapping social remittances (with F. Decimo), Migration Letters, 10(1): 1-10, 2013. Verso una politica di cosviluppo sociale attraverso le migrazioni: il caso dell’Ecuador e del Perù (with F. Piperno), WP CeSPI 71/2010 [www.cespi.it] L’emigrazione come questione sociale. Mutamento sociale, politiche e rappresentazioni in Ecuador, Romania, Ucraina, with A. Torre, F. Piperno e L. Banfi, WP CeSPI 57/2009 (chapter 3).
Ethnography and research methods Migrazioni e ricerca qualitativa in Italia: opzioni, tensioni, prospettive (with B. Riccio), Mondi Migranti, 14(3): 33-45, 2014. From the multi-sited to the in-between: Ethnography as a way of delving into migrants’ transnational relationships, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Latest articles, 2014, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.932107 Even a transnational social field must have its boundaries. Methodological options, potentials and dilemmas for researching transnationalism. In C. Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012. From rapport to collaboration … and beyond? Revisiting field relationships in an ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants, Qualitative Research, 11(6): 736-54, 2011. Il retroscena del lavoro domestico. Percorsi etnografici nelle catene globali di cura, “Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa”, 4(3): 459-68, 2011. Celebrare da cittadini, vivere da immigrati. Una giornata elettorale in un cortile di Milano, “come se fosse in Ecuador” (with F. Lagomarsino), “Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa” 2(3): 441-64, 2009. Come si “misura” il transnazionalismo degli immigrati? Dalle teorie alla traduzione empirica: una rassegna metodologica, “Mondi Migranti”, 2, 2007.
Ethnicity and diversity The difference diversity makes: a principle, a lens, an empirical attribute for majority-minority relations. In T. Matejskova, M. Antonsich (eds.),Governing through diversity, London: Palgrave, 2015 (chpt. 1: 21-38). ‘I’m not like all these Ecuadorians’. Promises and dilemmas of immigrants’ selective ethnicity appropriation, Social Identities, 20(1): 57-73, 2014. Ethnic minorities and Roma women in Europe: A case for gender equality?, study commissioned to IRS by the European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, with C. Crepaldi, M. Corsi, M. Samek, C. Vasilescu, 2008, chapters 7-8, available at http://ec.europa.eu/social/ main.jsp?catId=748&langId=en The social situation of the Roma and their improved access to the labour market in the EU, study commissioned to IRS by the European Parliament – Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL), with C. Crepaldi, M. Barbera, S. Naaf, 2008, chapters 3-4, available at www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/ committees/studies/download.do?file=23375 La partecipazione multietnica nelle imprese sociali: aspettative, apporti, prospettive. Uno studio sul campo, “Sociologia e Politiche Sociali”, 11(3): 83-94, 2008.
Social welfare, social work, social protection Social work and migration in Europe: a dialogue across boundaries (with E. Righard), Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 13(3): 221-8, 2015. Mapping the theoretical foundations of the migration-social work nexus (with E. Righard), Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 13(3): 229-44, 2015. (Super)Diversity and the Migration-Social Work Nexus: a new lens on the field of access and inclusion?, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(4): 608-20, 2015. Blurred rights, local practices: Social work and immigration in Italy (with E. Barberis), British Journal of Social Work, 44(s1): i70-i87, 2014 Caring about migrant care workers: from private obligations to transnational social welfare?, Critical Social Policy 34(2): 221-40, 2014. Migrants' social protection as a transnational process: public policies and emigrant initiative in the case of Ecuador, International Journal of Social Welfare, 20(3): 318-325, 2011. Social protection as a multi-actor process in Ecuadorian migration: Towards a transnationalism of social rights?. In R. Sabates-Wheeler, R. Feldman (eds.), Migration and social protection, London, Palgrave, 2011 (chapter 8: 210-31) The potential of ICT in supporting immigrants in domiciliary care in Italy (with S. Pasquinelli), JRC Technical Notes – European Commission and Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, 2010, available at http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/eInclusion.html. L’altra faccia delle migrazioni: il “care drain” nei paesi di origine, “Rivista delle politiche sociali”, 2, pp. 257-67, 2010. .
External voting and diasporas Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move (with J.M. Lafleur and P. Levitt), Mobilities,Online First, 2015. Making the ‘Fifth Region’ a real place? Emigrant policies and the emigration-nation nexus in Ecuador, National Identities, 16(2): 117-37, 2014 Building Democracy or Reproducing ‘Ecuadorianness’? A Transnational Exploration of Ecuadorian Migrants’ External Voting (with J. Ramírez), Journal of Latin American Studies, 45(4): 721-50, 2013. Voto a la distancia: análisis de la participación política de los ecuatorianos en el exterior (with J. Ramírez). In C. Amescua et al. (eds.), Política en movimiento: estado, ciudadanía, exilio y migración en América, Ciudad del México, CRIM - Diaz de Santos, 2013 (chapter 13: 305-328). La partecipazione politica degli immigrati: dal dibattito internazionale al caso italiano, in M. Ambrosini (ed.), Governare città plurali. Politiche locali di integrazione per gli immigrati in Europa, Milan: Angeli, 2012, p. 69-97. Dal multiculturalismo alla coesione di comunità? Il caso di Manchester, in M. Ambrosini (ed.), Governare città plurali. Politiche locali di integrazione per gli immigrati in Europa, Milan: Angeli, 2012, p. 170-189 Negoziando i confini della nuova convivenza multietnica. Il caso di Madrid, in M. Ambrosini (ed.), Governare città plurali. Politiche locali di integrazione per gli immigrati in Europa, Milan: Angeli, 2012, p. 149-169 Reminiscences, patriotism, participation. Approaching external voting in Ecuadorian immigration to Italy, International Migration, 49(3): 76-98, 2011. Construyendo la Quinta Región (with J. Ramírez). In J. Ramírez (ed.), Con o sin pasaporte. Ensayos socio-antropológicos sobre la migración ecuatoriana, Quito, IAEN, 2010. Votare per sentirsi a casa. Il transnazionalismo politico tra gli immigrati ecuadoriani in Italia, “Polis”, 22(1): 35-56, 2008 “Votare, per noi, era un giorno di festa”. Un’indagine esplorativa sul transnazionalismo politico tra gli immigrati ecuadoriani in Italia, WP CeSPI 35/2007 [www.cespi.it]
Return migration The framing of return from above and below in Ecuadorian migration: A project, a myth, or a political device?, Global Networks, 11(4): 461-480, 2011. Migration and the global crisis: New prospects for return? The case of Ecuadorians in Europe (with F. Lagomarsino), Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30(3): 282-297, 2011.
Integration, and the like Urban multiculturalism beyond the "backlash". New discourses and different practices in immigrant policies across European cities (with M. Ambrosini), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 36(1): 35-53, 2015. L’integrazione nello studio delle migrazioni: Teorie, indicatori, ricerche (with G. Pollini), Milan, Angeli, 2012.
Home(s) What’s in a (migrant) house? Changing domestic spaces, the negotiation of belonging and home-making in Ecuadorian migration, Housing, Theory and Society, 31(3): 277-93, 2014 Immigrants and home in the making: Thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness (with A. Brighenti), Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, online first, 2015. Other La cooperazione sociale dà voce agli utenti? (with F. Zandonai), “Animazione Sociale”, 40, 2, pp. 90-100, 2010. Imprese sociali e rapporti con le comunità locali: radicamento, legittimazione, rappresentanza (with M. Ambrosini), “Partecipazione e Conflitto”, 3, 2009. Il nuovo servizio civile: un monitoraggio delle realizzazioni locali (with M. Ambrosini, F. Biolcati, M. Pizzoni), Università di Milano, study commissioned by Ufficio nazionale servizio civile, 2008 [available at www.serviziocivile.it]. I limiti del welfare trentino. Le culture regolative dei servizi, il ruolo delle imprese sociali, i bisogni emergenti. Trento, ISSAN, Report in the framework of the Equal RESTORE Project, 2006. Gli orientamenti della società italiana verso gli immigrati e la società multietnica: la prospettiva di Eurobarometro, “Affari Sociali Internazionali”, 34(1): 93-104, 2006. Costruire una mission partecipata. In F.Zandonai, S. Taraschi (eds.), Impresa sociale: dalla gestione strategica agli strumenti operativi, Rome, Carocci, 2006 (chapter 3). Economia sociale e integrazione degli immigrati in Italia: un quadro di insieme, “Impresa Sociale”, n. 76, 2006 Lavoro autonomo e piccole imprese come canali di integrazione dal basso degli immigrati (with M. Ambrosini), “Studi Emigrazione”, 3, 2006. Il barometro dell’integrazione. Un progetto per l’integrazione tra cittadini autoctoni e stranieri, Brescia, Quaderni della Fondazione ASM, 2005. L’inserimento delle donne immigrate nel mercato del lavoro e nei servizi di cura, Trento, Report in the framework of the Equal PROMOCARE Project (with M. Ambrosini), 2004 Un’integrazione precaria. Immigrazione e lavoro a Rimini (with M. Ambrosini), Fara, 2000 (chapters 1,2,3).
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Attività di ricerca |
I am an associate professor of sociology at the University of Trento (2017-) and the principal investigator of the ERC StG HOMInG - the home-migration nexus (2016-2021) - homing.soc.unitn.it. I do research in the following areas: international migration; home-making; globalization and transnational studies; social welfare, care, social protection and diversity; third sector and civic participation; ethnographic and qualitative research. I teach courses on Sociology for social workers and on Migration and social work (BA in Social Work) and on Ethnography in social research and migration studies (PhD programme in Sociology) at the University of Trento. I have published articles in many national and international journals in sociology of migration, home, social welfare, transnational studies, care and diversity. I am a member of the editorial boards of Comparative Migration Studies, Mondi Migranti and Migration Letters. My topics of interest, as of now, include the following: - Proximity, copresence and social relationships from afar, as emerging sociological issues; - Wellbeing, care and emotions, as (still understudied) categories relevant to international migration; - Migrant transnational ties and relationships, along with their societal consequences; - The consequences of emigration on host societies and the development of emigrant policies; - Integration as a sociological notion and a category for relevant policies; - Ethnographic and biographic approaches to research on socio-political participation and on active citizenship; - Migrants' informal sociability and home-making practices; - Welfare, social inclusion and ethnic minorities; - New developments in social work and local welfare - with special respect to care work, ethno-cultural diversity and user/citizen participation.
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Altre attività |
Invited as guest speaker: - Université Catholique de Louvain - Workshop on The significance of migrants’ remittances for families and communities; Mesa redonda sobre Familias transnacionales latino-americanas, migración y género (October 2011); - University of Warsaw, International conference on Social remittances and social change in Eastern Europe, Invited presentation on ‘Researching into social remittances: Methodological implications, dilemmas and ways ahead’, January 2015.
Convened the following seminars and conferences: - Cluster B3 Workshop - Researching into external voting: comparing experiences and perspectives. Is it a matter of migrant political transnationalism?, workshop at the annual IMISCOE conference, Stockholm, September 2009. - The undocumented, the non-legitimate, and their welfare (with E. Righard and C. Bolzman), workshop at the Annual Conference of the IMISCOE research network, Geneva, June 2015. Expert referee in evaluating research projects and applications for: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2015). Referee for the following peer-reviewed journals: Ethnic and Racial Studies; Mondi Migranti; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Global Networks; Migration Letters; The Latin Americanist; Transnational Social Review; Migration Studies; International Migration; Qualitative Research; RicercAzione; Polis; Partecipazione e Conflitto; Quaderni di Sociologia; Stato e Mercato; Stranieri in Italia (Cattaneo-il Mulino); Íconos; Italian Journal of Sociology of Education; McGraw-Hill; FrancoAngeli – Politiche migratorie e ricerche; IMISCOE-Amsterdam University Press Publications. |
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More information on http://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=Z5oquQgAAAAJ&pagesize=100&view_op=list_works --- https://unitn.academia.edu/PaoloBoccagni |