Experts Database

Ferruccio Pastore (PhD, European University Institute, 1996) is the Director of FIERI (www.fieri.it) since May 2009. He has previously been Deputy Director of the international relations and European studies think-tank CeSPI
(Centre for International Policy Studies, Rome) and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Firenze.
Besides research, he has worked as an adviser on migration policy issues for Italian institutions and
international organisations. He has published extensively on migration and integration policies and politics
(full list on www.fieri.it).

Regine is Associate Professor in Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen/Norway. Her research focuses on mobility and border control, risk regulation and algorithmic governance in the migration domain (and beyond). Her wider interests are in comparative public policy governance and public administration as well as critical policy studies. She co-edited the "Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration" (Edward Elgar, 2021), authored "The Political Economy of Border Drawing: Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies" (Berghahn, 2015), and published several journal articles and book chapters on migration governance in Europe.

Ingrid Berns Pavezi is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Sociology, in Freiburg, Germany. Currently, she is also a doctoral research fellow at the Labor Migration Research Group and the Labor Europe and Europeanisation, at the Humboldt University, in Berlin. Pavezi is graduated since 2015 from the European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations – EMMIR, with a joint degree by seven universities in both Europe and Africa. Pavezi already holds an MA in Sociology and a Diploma in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR); and a Diploma in Law from the Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), both Brazilian universities. Her investigation has been based on global politics on migration as well as comparative historical sociology, sociology of development, sociology of inequalities, world-system analysis, citizenship studies and post-colonial perspectives of analysis.

Mikołaj Pawlak is associate professor of sociology at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw, where he serves as head of Chair of Sociology of Norms, Deviance and Social Control, and the Deputy Director for Research. He is a co-organizer of the seminar Nowy instytucjonalizm – teorie i badania [New institutionalism – theories and research].

Mikołaj Pawlak’s research interests cover new institutional theory, migration studies, sociology of knowledge/ignorance and failure studies. He recently co-edited Routledge International Handbook of Failure - the first comprehensive volume constituting failure studies. In the previous book he co-authored Ignorance and Change he analyzes the refugee crisis from the perspective of ignorance studies. In his previous book Tying Micro and Macro he critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum and presents it in the context of the debate on the micro- and macro-levels in sociological theory. His previous book Organizacyjna reakcja na nowe zjawisko [Organizational Response to a New Problem] applies the new institutional perspective in organization studies to the problem of emerging policies of refugees integration in Poland.

I study borders, mobility, and how experiences of precarious migration are shaped by histories and institutions. My interdisciplinary research has focused especially on Africa-Europe mobilities and questions of asylum, migrant reception, human rights, and racial justice in the Italian context. This work bridges critical refugee studies, transnational Italian studies, and postcolonial studies, through methods including media, narrative, and discourse analysis, and oral history and ethnography. In analyzing shifting border dynamics and engaging a range of testimonial and documentary forms and practices, I aim to inform understandings of the relationship between mobility, sovereignty, memory, rights, and belonging in and beyond Italy and the Mediterranean. I'm also interested in collaborative, comparative work and action research.

My book, Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, November 2024), investigates the discourses and experiences of “emergency” that are shaping contemporary Mediterranean migration to the EU.

Irene Peano trained as a social anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, where she received her PhD in 2011. She has previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bologna, where she held a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship, and at the University of Bucharest. For more than fifteen years, she has been engaged in research on the exploitation of migrants, with a specific focus on sex work and agricultural labour, and on forms of resistance to labour and migration regimes, to which she is actively committed. In relation to such themes, she also carries out genealogical, historical and archival research. Irene has done field research in Nigeria, Italy and Romania. At ICS, she was part of the COLOUR Project (The Colour of Labour: the racialized Lives of Migrants - PI Cristiana Bastos), before holding a position as Associate Researcher.