Mario Antonelli
is a Priest of the Archdiocese of Milan. At the Pontifical Gregorian University, he took his doctorate in Theology with a thesis about the Action by Maurice Blondel. He started teaching in 1989. Until 2018, he was Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Milan, with the occasional teaching of Trinitary Theology and Ecclesiology. He was sent as fidei donum to the area of Belém (Brazil) where he also taught Theological Anthropology, Trinitary Theology and Christology from 2004 to 2010. He is a collaborator of the missionary Pastoral and of the pastoral Care of Migrants, and since 2018 he has been Episcopal Vicar for Education and Celebration of Faith in the Archdiocese of Milan.
Fr. Fabio Baggio
is a member of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo. He gained a doctorate in Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1998. Fr. Baggio worked as a pastor in Santiago de Chile from 1995 to 1997 and was also advisor for migrations to the Chilean bishops’ conference (INCAMI). Afterwards, until 2002, he served as Director of the Department for Migration of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. From 1999–2010, he taught at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires as well as at the Ateneo de Manila and at the Maryhill School of Theology at Quezon City in the Philippines, where he was Director of the Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC). Since the year 2000, he was also Professor at the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI), which is incorporated into the Theology Faculty of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. He became Director of the Institute in 2010. From 1 January 2017 he is Under-Secretary of the Refugees and Migrants Section, Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development (Holy See).
Paola Barachetti
graduated in Political and Social Science. She has had a long career in a non-profit organization offering social welfare services, including those devoted to migrants and refugees. She is currently affiliated with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where she is serving as Teaching Assistant. Her research interests include intercultural psychology and social practice; acculturation and integration in migrant families and children; the influence of religious values in the process of social inclusion.
holder of an international French-Italian Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate Professor at the University of the Côte d’Azur. His research focuses on the manifestations of xenophobia among adolescents and on the role of formal education in the prevention of interethnic intolerance. He is a member of the “Migrations et société” research unit (CNRS 8245 – IRD 205) and fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations – INED Paris.
Olga Bernad-Cabero
is a Postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Her research lines focus on the sociology of education, family and school relations, migration and cultural diversity. She has carried out research at the University of Montreal and at the University of Dakar. She is a trainer and consultant at educational centers and has given numerous lectures, communications and consultations for various institutions. In recent years, she has published articles and book chapters in prestigious publishing houses. She is part of the GR-ASE research group “Educational and Social Analysis” of UdL.
Catherine Blaya
is Professor of Education Sciences at the University for Teachers’ Education in Lausanne (Switzerland). She teaches at the Special Education Needs unit and is Co-Director of its Research Centre for the Prevention of School Dropout (LASALE). She is member of the Research Unit on Migrations and Society (UMR CNRS 8245-IRD 205), specialized in the study of migrations and interethnic relations at the University Nice Sophia Antipolis. She has been dedicating her academic career to researching issues that might affect young people’s lives, such as dropping out of school, school climate, cyberbullying, and cyberhate.
Lucia Boccacin
Ph.D. in sociology, is currently Full Professor of Cultural Sociology in the Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Chair of National Scientific Qualification in Sociology of the Cultural and Communicative Processes, Scientific Sector 14/C2, years 2016–2018.
Her investigations focus on the third sector, partnership models among the third sector and other social macro-players, social policies and social services, family and intergenerational relations.
Paolo Bonetti
is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teaches Institutions of Public Law and Immigration Law in
Donatella Bramanti
is Full Professor of Sociology of the Family and Sociology of Personal Services at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. She has conducted a number of studies on the themes of family and of ageing population. She has also participated in numerous research projects. She has collaborated with the National Observatory of the Family with a research on “Self-sufficient Seniors and Family Friendly Services”. She is the author and co-author of over 100 monographs and articles concerning social policies, personalized services and good practices, social and cultural family transformations, impact evaluation in the field of personalized services and educational processes.
Luca Bressan
Presbyter of the Diocese of Milan since 1987. At the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Milan, he teaches Homiletics and Pastoral Theology. He is a permanent Professor at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (Milan). Since June 2012, he has been Episcopal Vicar for Culture, Charity, Mission and Social Action.
Maddalena Colombo
is Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative processes; she teaches “Sociology of Education”, “Sociology of Educational Policy” and “Sociology of Inequalities and Differences” at the Faculty of Education, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and of Brescia. She is the Director of the CIRMiB (Centre of Initiatives and research on Migration – Brescia) and of the Laris (Laboratory of Research and Intervention on Society). She is a
Jordi Garreta-Bochaca
holds a degree and a doctorate in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is currently teaching at the University of Lleida. He has carried out research on educational sociology and sociology of migrations and is Director of GR-ASE research group “Educational and Social Analysis” of UdL. As well as presenting his work in conventions, he has published articles in national and international journals and books (https://lleida.academia.edu/JordiGarretaBochaca). He has carried out various research visits at the Centre d’Études Ethniques at the University of Montreal (1996, 1998, 2000 and 2009) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1997, 1998, 2007, 2010 and 2020).
Cristina Giuliani
is an academic researcher and serves as Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. She is also member of the Family Studies and Research University Centre. Her main issues of research are the following: critical family transition and resiliency processes, migration processes, acculturation process and family relationship transformations in post-migration, Muslim immigrant families.
Paolo Gomarasca
Ph.D. , is an Associate Professor in Moral Philosophy at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he currently teaches “Social Philosophy”, “Philosophy of Intercultural Dialogue”, “Ethics of Care”, “Ethics and Professional Conduct for Social Work” and “Global Ethics”. At the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, he is a member of the Doctoral Board of Ph.D. “Social Work and Personal Social Services”, a member of Research Centre of Relational Social Work (RSW) and a member of the Transdisciplinary Research On Food Issues Centre (TROFIC). He is also an external collaborator in the international project “Emotional culture and identity”, Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain). His areas of study and research are the following: care ethics for social work, gender studies, studies on refugees, and food ethics.
is Professor in the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain (Serra Hunter Programme of the Generalitat of Catalonia). Her lines of research focus on mediation and intercultural education, religious diversity, ethnic minorities and cooperation between Africa and Europe. She has carried out several research stays at universities such as Sherbrooke, Quebec, Montreal, Paris, Mostar, Dakar, Padua, Rome; she has given lectures and training courses in various centers and has published articles in journals, as well as book chapters and books. She is a member of the Board of Directors in the Research Institute “INDEST” and in the Research Group GR-ASE “Educational and Social Analysis” of UdL.
Rosangela Lodigiani
Ph.D. , is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Economics at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where she currently teaches “Employment relations and active labor market policies”, “European Social Policies”, and “General Sociology”. She is member of the WWELL (Work, Welfare, Enterprise and Lifelong Learning) Research Centre’s Steering Board at the Department of Sociology, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Ph.D. Course in “Sociology, Organizations, Cultures” at the same University. Her research interests are focused on labor market, lifelong learning and activations policies, as well as on Italian and European active welfare system’s reform and innovation, in a comparative perspective. On these issues, she has carried out and managed many field-research projects and published several essays and papers.
Vera Lomazzi
received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research Methods in 2015. She is a Senior Researcher at the Data Archive for Social Sciences at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany, and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the European Values Study. Her substantive research mainly focuses on the cross-cultural study of gender equality and gender role attitudes, youth engagement, and collective identities. She has a specific interest in the quality of the instruments adopted by large cross-sectional survey programs and on their measurement equivalence. Before joining GESIS, she took part as trainer and consultant in a UNICEF-funded project in South Lebanon (2014–2015) and was research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, where she was involved in the EC-funded project “Arab Transformations”.
Ph.D. in Sociology, is Assistant Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where she teaches “Sociology and Methods” (Faculty of Education Science). Her research interests are around welfare policies, health sociology, and digital research.
Paolo Maggiolini
is Research Fellow at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, and Adjunct Professor in “Regional Studies – Middle East and History of Islamic Asia”, Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures.
Monica Martinelli
is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and a member of the “Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Cultural Change” (ARC). Her scientific research focuses on the study of the sociological classics and their questions about the relationship between the individual and society, applied to contemporary socio-cultural transformations.
Stefania Giada Meda
is a sociology researcher at the Università Cattolica’s Centre for Family Studies and Research. Her main research topics are in the field of sociology of the family, ageing, and social policies. She was awarded a Marie Curie Actions fellowship for international mobility and research.
Alessia Melcangi
is Tenure Track Assistant of “Contemporary History of North Africa and Middle East and Globalization and International Relations” at the Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Social Sciences and Economics (DiSSE), Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Washington D.C., and collaborates with the Centre of Research on the Southern System and the Wider Mediterranean (CRiSSMA–Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore).
Giulia Mezzetti
has recently obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is Researcher and project Officer at ISMU Foundation – Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity, a research institute on migration and integration. Her research interests concern children
Beatrice Nicolini
has a degree in International Relations and Comparative Government from Harvard University, U.S.A. and graduated in Political Sciences from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. She obtained a Ph.D. in History of Africa from Siena University, Italy. She is Full Professor of “History and Institutions of Africa, Religions, Conflicts and Slavery, Indian Ocean World”, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. Expert for Zanzibar V-Dem – Varieties of Democracy Project, Oslo University, Norway. She has received grants and recognition for her research from Italy, from the Sultanate of Oman and from the UK. She has released more than 110 publications, most of which in English, and a number of them have been translated into Arabic.
Andrea Plebani
is Associate Fellow at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and Adjunct Professor in Geopolitics, Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures.
Riccardo Redaelli
is the Director of the Center for Research on the South and the Wider Mediterranean System (CRiSSMA) and Director of the Master in Middle Eastern Studies (MIMES) of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, and Full Professor of “History and Institutions of Asia”. He also teaches “Post Conflict and Emergency Management”. Member of the “Observatory on Religious Minorities in the World and the Respect for Religious Freedom” of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since 2004 he has been coordinating a plurality of Track-two programs of national reconciliations, international cooperation and knowledge transfer in the Middle East. He published more than 100 monographs, edited books, essays and articles on the history and contemporary politics of the Middle East.
Camillo Regalia
is Full Professor of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Education, Director of the Ph.D. program in Social and Developmental Psychology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, and member of the executive committee of the Family Studies and Research University Centre. His main issues of research are the following: psychological integration of first and second generation of immigrants; cultural identity and family processes; Muslim migration in the West.
is a Full Professor of Sociology of the Family, Faculty of Psychology, and Head of the Centre for Family Studies and Research, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, since 1997. She is also Member of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Advisory Board of Research Network 13 “Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives”. She carried out extensive and documented research focusing on family, social policy, and third sector. She is author and co-author of many books and over 130 scientific contributions on national and international journals, editor of “Studi di Sociologia” (Sociology Studies) and of “Sociologia e Politiche sociali” (Sociology and Social Policy), Co-Director of “Studi interdisciplinari sulla Famiglia” (Interdisciplinary Studies on Family) and “Politiche sociali e servizi” (Social Policy and Services).
Giancarlo Rovati
was Full Professor of Sociology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (from 2003 to 2018), teaching “General Sociology” and “Sociology of Development” in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. He has been involved in several national research projects, supported by CNR and MIUR and in multinational research projects on Values System change (in the context of European Values Study program), cultural enterprises (in the context of the European Community ADAPT program), international cooperation programs with Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine (in the context of Tempus-Tacis program); development cooperation programs (in the context of the Orphan Vulnerable Children – OVC program managed by AVSI and supported by USAID in Kenia, Rwanda, Uganda, Ivory Coast). He was member of the national board of the Italian Sociological Association (1996–1998); President of the national Inquiry Commission on Social Exclusion – CIES (2002–2007), member of EVS Theory Group and Italian Director of the IV and V wave of the European Values Survey (EVS-Italy 2008 and 2017) coordinated by University of Tilburg. His main fields of theoretical and empirical researches are the following: cultural institutions, social-economic élites, social stratification, change in religious, moral and political values, development and globalization, poverty and social exclusion.
Mariagrazia Santagati
is Assistant Professor of “Sociology of Education” in the Faculty of Education at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, as well as Scientific Secretary of the CIRMiB. She is the head of the Department for Education of the ISMU Foundation (Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity) and, since 2010, she has been the editor of the annual “Report on students with non-Italian
Andrea Santini
is Associate Professor of European Union Law at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he also coordinates the Bachelor course in Political Sciences and International Relations and is a member of the Ph.D. School of Institutions and Policies. He has recently published, with Ugo Draetta and Francesco Bestagno, the handbook Elementi di diritto dell’Unione europea – Parte istituzionale, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Milan, 2018.
Annavittoria Sarli
Ph.D. in Anthropology, collaborates as a researcher and expert in migration studies with the WWELL (Work, Welfare, Enterprise Lifelong Learning) Centre of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan and with ISMU Foundation – Initiatives and Studies on Multi-ethnicity in Milan. Author of several scientific publications, she has collaborated in various national and international research projects.
Monica Spatti
Ph.D. in International, Supranational and European Institutions at the University of Teramo, is a researcher of “European Law” at the Faculty of Political and Social Science at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. Her main research subjects concern the international and European system of protection of human rights, especially regarding migration, privacy, freedom of expression and religious rights.
Giovanni Giulio Valtolina
educated in Padua, Milan and Chicago, is currently affiliated with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he is serving as Associate Professor of “Developmental Psychology”.
At the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, he is also member of the faculty board of the Ph.D. program in Relational Social Work and Personal Social Services.
Laura Zanfrini
Ph.D. in Sociology, is Full Professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where she teaches “Sociology of Migrations and Interethnic Relations” and “Organizations, Environment and Social Innovation”. She is the Scientific Director of the research center WWELL (Work, Welfare, Enterprise and Lifelong Learning); the coordinator of the Board of Professors of the Master’s Degree in Labor and Business Management; and the Scientific Director of the Summer School “Human Mobility and Global Justice”. She is Head of the Economic and Labor Department, as well as the scientific supervisor of the Documentation Center (CeDoc) at ISMU Foundation – Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity, the most important Italian scientific institution studying international migrations and intercultural relations. She is member of several editorial boards, scientific networks, and consultative bodies; she took part and coordinated various international research project. She is the author of about 400 publications, including books, essays, articles and research reports, published both in Italy and abroad. Among these, the first Sociology of Migration and Sociology of Interethnic Coexistence handbooks ever published in Italy and several dictionary and encyclopedia entries.