Eleonora Castagnone (ita)
Degrees
2011: PhD in Sociology – Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (full scholarship awarded). Final dissertation: “Building a comprehensive framework of African mobility patterns: the case of Senegalese migration”.
2007: Master in Management of Development – International Training Centre of the ILO/University of Turin, Turin
2002: Advanced University Degree in Social-Anthropology – University of Turin. Final thesis: “Microcredit and gender: study of the socio-economic impact of an Italian NGO program in Senegal”.
Scholarship and Awards
2007-2010: Full doctoral fellowship – Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan
2006-2007: Studentship - Master in Management of Development – International Training Centre of the ILO/University of Turin
2006: Studentship for the attendance of the High-Level Training Session on International Migration and Cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean Area; European University Institute, The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
2001: Study Grant for a six months internship in Senegal awarded by University of Turin – CIRSDe/Interdepartmental Centre of Women’s Researches and Studies; fin. by the Region of Piedmont within the “Program of Food Security in Sahel and West Africa”
2000-2001: Erasmus Study Grant for a period of six months at the University of Oviedo (Spain)
Professional experience
Since 2004: project manager and senior researcher at FIERI
2009-2010: Researcher of the PRIN project held by the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Studies: “The Social Profile of Foreign Entrepreneurs Immigrated in Italy” project financed by the Ministry of Education, University and Research:. Coordination and scientific supervision of the researchers’ team in Turin.
2008 – 2009: Consultancy. 4 months research in Senegal: diagnostic study on sustainable tourism and co-development in Senegal for the Ngo CISV (Turin) within the “IncontraSenegal” initiative by Fondazioni4Africa (consortium of four major banking foundations in Italy)
2004 – 2008: consultant researcher at CeSPI - Centre for International Policy Studies, Rome, on MIDA - Migration for Development in Africa Program (IOM Rome, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). and CESPI/COOPI (NGO) project “Enhancement of the social capital in the framework of the Senegalese migration. Co-development Italy-Senegal”. Collaboration to the research on: “Migrants for the co-development between Italy and Senegal”.
2001 – 2005: Researcher of the University International Program “Inter-university Turin-Sahel Co-operation” (University of Turin); research project on the Senegalese migration in Turin. In Italy: collection and analysis of life histories from the Senegalese community in Turin; data analysis; Co-author and editor of the research publication. In Senegal: responsible for the management and co-ordination of methodological planning and of life histories from the families of the Senegalese migrants interviewed in Italy, in collaboration with the University Gaston Berger - Saint-Louis, Senegal
2001: Fellowship. Grant awarded by CIRSdE (Interdepartmental Centre of Women’s Researches and Studies) of the University of Turin. Research conducted within the CISV (NGO) Microfinance Project in collaboration with the PEGO Department (Département de Planification Economique et Gestion des Organisations) of ENEA (Ecole Nationale d’Economie Appliquée) in Dakar: “Evaluation de l’impact socio-économique du Programme de Micro finance de l’Ong CISV dans la Région de Louga sur les femmes bénéficiaires”.
2000: Project assistant at LVIA and CICSENE (NGOs), Turin. on decentralised cooperation between in the educational sector.
1999: Intern at the Intercultural Centre of the Municipality of Turin. Co-ordination of partnerships between schools of Piedmont and of the South of the World in the frame of decentralised cooperation programs.
Teaching and Training experience
2008-2011: Trainer on Foreign workers, migrants’ entrepreneurship and diversity management, within courses organized by Skillab for Unione Industriale of Turin (Employers’ Association)
2011: Trainer at the ITC (International Training Center)/ILO course “Labour Migration Academy”, Turin
2009-2011: Trainer on Migrants’ entrepreurship and integration in the Labour market for the Social Cooperative Orso (Turin)
2010: Trainer on “Migrants’ economic integration in Italy” within the course “Analizzare e comprendere le migrazioni. Dal globale al locale. Aggiornamento sui fenomeni migratori”, organized by COREP (training agency)
2010: Trainer on "Migrations et entreprenariat: l’exemple italien" for the course "Migrations internationales de main-d'oeuvre" held at the ITC (International Training Center) of the ILO, Turin
2010: Lecturer on “Migrations between Senegal and Europe: trajectories, transnational mobility policies and practices” at the University of Trento, Department of Sociology
2009: Trainer at the V Summer School “Sociology of Migrations”, Centro Studi Medì, Genoa. Workshop on “Preparing and presenting a scientific communication”
Membership of professional bodies
Since 2011: member of the editorial committee of Mondi Migranti journal on migration studies, directed by Maurizio Ambrosini (ed. By FrancoAngeli)
2006-2010, member of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion) - A2 cluster (Migration and Development) directed by Prof. Richard Black, Sussex Centre for Migration Research - Sussex University, UK.
2007-2010, member of the Marie Curie Research Training Network “TOM: Transnationality of Migrants: Enduring ties with the home country and integration in the host country“ (15 teams all across Europe).
Research Interests
Books
2009, “Le tourisme responsable au Sénégal. Acteurs, services, relations”, Effatà Editore
2005, ‘Vai e vieni’. Esperienze di migrazione e lavoro di senegalesi tra Louga e Torino, (with, Ciafaloni F., Donini E., Guasco D., Lanzardo L.), Franco Angeli Editore.
Chapters in Books
2011, “Introduzione: Studiare l’imprenditoria cinese, oltre i luoghi comuni” (with Ferruccio Pastore), in FIERI, Camera di Commercio di Torino, Diventare Laoban. Lavoro autonomo, percorsi imprenditoriali e progetti migratori dei cinesi in Italia e a Torino, CCIAA Torino
2010, “Mercati all’aperto e venditori immigrati: nuovi volti di un’antica storia”, (with Ambrosini M.) in FIERI, Camera di Commercio di Torino, L’integrazione in piazza. Commercianti stranieri e clientela multietnica nei mercati urbani, CCIAA Torino
2010, Il “dolce commercio” al tempo della crisi, (with Ambrosini M.) in FIERI, Camera di Commercio Torino, L’integrazione in piazza. Commercianti stranieri e clientela multietnica nei mercati urbani, CCIAA Torino
2009, “Il transnazionalismo negato. La parabola dei phone center” (with Gasparetti F.), in Ambrosini M. (eds.), Intraprendere tra due mondi. Il transnazionalismo economico dei migranti, Il Mulino, Bologna.
2009, “Cibo, diversità culturale, impresa. Gli operatori economici immigrati nel settore dell’alimentazione” (ed. Ambrosini M., Castagnone E.), in FIERI, Camera di Commercio di Torino, I viaggi del cibo, i cibi del viaggio. Le iniziative economiche degli immigrati nella filiera alimentare, Camera di Commercio, Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Torino
2009, “La comunità marocchina: commercio e ristorazione”, in FIERI, Camera di Commercio di Torino, I viaggi del cibo, i cibi del viaggio. Le iniziative economiche degli immigrati nella filiera alimentare, Camera di Commercio di Torino
2008, Quando gli immigrati diventano operatori economici: il caso dell’edilizia rumena a Torino (eds. Ambrosini M., Castagnone E., Gasparetti F., Villosio C.), in Gli immigrati romeni in Italia, Caritas/Migrantes, Edizioni Idos.
2008, “Porta Palazzo plurale. Il caso del commercio marocchino”, in L’immigrazione che intraprende, nuovi attori economici a Torino, FIERI - Camera di Commercio di Torino.
2008, “Il settore dei phone center: dall’espansione alla crisi. Il caso di San Salvario” (with Gasparetti F.), in L’immigrazione che intraprende, nuovi attori economici a Torino, FIERI - Camera di Commercio di Torino.
2007, “Migrants pour le Co-développement entre l’Italie et le Sénégal. Le cas des Sénégalais à Turin”, in AA.VV., Relations transnationales et co-développement. Associations et entrepreneurs sénégalais entre Italie et lieux d’origine, L’Harmattan.
2006, “Migranti per il Co-sviluppo tra Italia e Senegal. Il caso dei Senegalesi a Torino e provincia”, in AA.VV. Relazioni transnazionali e co-sviluppo. Associazioni e imprenditori senegalesi tra Italia e luoghi di origine, L’Harmattan Italia.
2002, “Genre et microcrédit: un projet de l’ONG CISV dans la Région de Louga – Sénégal”, in AA.VV., Travail, genre et développement local au Mali et au Sénégal Harmattan Italia, Torino.
Articles In Scientific Reviews
2011, Transit migrations between Senegal and Europe: a life-course approach to migration trajectories. A study based on MAFE data, Cahiers de l’Urmis.
2008, “Migranti e consumi: il versante dell’offerta. Strategie di imprenditoria straniera nel settore del commercio alimentare al dettaglio”, in Mondi Migranti, n° 3/2008, F. Angeli.
2008, “Migranti e associazionismo transnazionale” (with Ferro A., Mezzetti P.), in Quaderni Rassegna Sindacale Lavori, n° 2/2008, Migranti e cittadinanza, ediesse, Roma.
2005, “Vai e vieni, il lavoro di migrante. Senegalesi tra Louga e Torino”, in Afriche e Orienti n° 3/2005 “Migranti africani in Italia: etnografie”, AIEP, Bologna.
2003, “Entre Louga et Turin: pratiques et cultures du travail dans un réseau migratoire” (eds. Castagnone E., Ciafaloni F., Donini E., Guasco D., Lanzardo L.), in Abdoulaye Niang (sous la direction de), Actes du colloque de Saint-Louis du 23 au 25 juin 2003, Développement local et développement durable, Rèvue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis.
Working Papers And Reports
2011, Transit migration: a piece of the complex mobility puzzle. The case of Senegalese migration, Working Paper FIERI.
2010, Il caso di Torino: imprenditori marocchini nel settore del “food”, University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Studies, PRIN project “The Social Profile of Foreign Entrepreneurs Immigrated in Italy”
2008, Strumenti metodologici per la ricerca sugli effetti delle migrazioni internazionali nel paese d’origine, (eds. Castagnone E., Ferro A. Mezzetti P.), Working Paper 42/2008, CESPI/IOM.
2007, Madri Migranti. Le migrazioni di cura dalla Romania e dall’Ucraina in Italia: percorsi e impatto sui paesi di origine, (eds. Castagnone E., Eve M., Petrillo E. R., Piperno F.), Migraction Program, CESPI, Working Paper 34/2007.
2006, Migranti per il Co-sviluppo tra Italia e Senegal. Il caso dei Senegalesi a Torino e provincia, in CESPI, Enhancement of the social capital in the framework of the Senegalese migration. Co-development Italy-Senegal, financed by the European Commission, CeSPI.
2006, Rapporto Territoriale sui migranti ghanesi e senegalesi in Piemonte, Progetto MIDA Ghana-Senegal”, OIM Italia, Roma.
2005, Senegalesi fra Louga e Torino: la dialettica del “vai e vieni”, Working Paper ‘Crocevia’, FIERI (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’immigrazione).
2004, La comunità senegalese di Asti e la comunità burkinabé di Cuneo, Piemonte, in: Migranti e cooperazione decentrata italiana per lo sviluppo africano. OIM Italia, Roma.
2004, Il punto di vista dei migranti senegalesi. Un’inchiesta realizzata in Piemonte (cap. II), in CESPI Le rimesse come strumento di integrazione tra Italia e Africa. I risultati di una consultazione con operatori bancari italiani e di alcune interviste a migranti senegalesi ed etiopi, OIM Italia, Roma.
Public Presentations (seminars, conferences)
2011 (30 September, Oxford), “Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative research methods. The case of biographical approach”, ESF Strategic Workshop. New approaches for researching the determinants of migration processes, IMI (International Migration Institute) – University of Oxford
2011 (22 September, Prato), “Chinese entrepreneurship in Turin: individual trajectories, networks regulatory framework and the role of the local context”, China in the World Conference, Monash University
2011 (8 July, Turin), “Labour migration to Europe. The case of Senegal. Data from the MAFE survey”, Labour Migration Academy, ITC-ILO Turin
2011 (8 April, London), “Mobility patterns of Senegalese migration to Europe: a migration life-cycle approach”, Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge Interdisciplinary conference on migration jointly organised by the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), UCL (University College London).
2010 (8 October, Turin), “Vies en mouvement: les trajectoires migratoires entre le Sénégal et l’Europe”, Le projet MAFE sur l’émigration sénégalaise en Europe: quels enseignements pour les politiques migratoires?, ILO ITC (International Training Center)
2010 (16 September, Oxford), “Mobility patterns of Senegalese migration to Europe: a migration life-cycle approach” ASAUK (African Studies Association of the United Kingdom) Conference 2010, St Antony’s College.
2010 (30 April, Turin), “L’entrepreneuriat des Marocain : entre opportunités et limites pour un approche de co-développement", MidEF, Migration, Développement, Femmes : Diaspora Marocaine entre présent et futur, Centre Culturel Italo-Arabe Dar Al Hikma.
2009 (10 December, Nice), “Migrations de transit entre le Sénégal et l’Europe: comment les données MAFE peuvent-elles contribuer à notre compréhension du phénomène ?", Colloque International "Migrations de Transit en Afrique. Dynamiques locales et globales, gestion politique et expériences d’acteurs", Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis.
2009 (19 November, Dakar), “Transit migrations between Senegal and Europe: how can the MAFE dataset aid foster understanding of the phenomenon”, Symposium International “Migration et Mondialisation”, UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop).
2009 (15 October, Milan), “Il multiculturalismo a tavola.Una ricerca sull'imprenditoria degli immigrati nella filiera alimentare”, with Prof. Maurizio Ambrosini, Seminar organised by LIMES (Laboratorio immigrazione, multiculturalismo e società), Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Milan.
2009 (10 June, Milan), “Migranti e consumi: un'analisi dalla prospettiva dell'offerta”, in “I “nuovi italiani” e il mercato, Seminar organ. by LIMES (Laboratorio immigrazione, multiculturalismo e società), Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Milan.
2009 (3 June, Turin) “Tra tradizione e ibridazione: tre casi di studio sull’imprenditoria straniera a Torino nel settore del cibo”, Turin Chamber of Commerce Conference: “Il multiculturalismo a tavola. Imprenditorialità immigrata e trasformazioni urbane”.
2008 (10 September, Bilbao), “Ethnic food and migrants’ entrepreneurship in Turin”, IMISCOE 5th annual conference, University of Deusto.
2008 (16-17 July, Maastricht) “Local dynamics and foreign entrepreneurship. The case of Porta Palazzo and San Salvario districts in Turin (Italy)”, IMISCOE Workshop “Local Dynamics and Immigrant Economic Outcomes”, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.
2008 (24 April, Milan) Interview at La Repubblica TV, “Immigrate e sognatrici”.
2008 (10-11 April, Hamburg) “Foreign Entrepreneurship. Three case studies in Turin (Italy)”, IMISCOE Workshop “Migrant Entrepreneurship/Self-employment: Aspects with Regard to Sustainability?”.
2008 (3 April, Turin) “L’immigrazione che intraprende. Nuovi attori economici in provincia di Torino”, Press conference at the Chamber of Commerce of Turin.
2007 (26-27 October, Riga) “Ukranian and Romanian Care Workers in Italy: Two Different Migration Models and Strategies”, with Roberta Petrillo, First Meeting of "Transnationality of Migrants" (Marie Curie Research Training Network).
2007 (23-24 April, Warsav) “Ukranian and Romanian Care Workers in Italy: Two Different Migration Models and Strategies”, presented at “EU enlargement and labour migration within the EU”, IMISCOE Conference.
2006 (5 September, Vienna) “Migraction - Transnational migration and welfare. Case studies on Romania and Ukraine”, Annual IMISCOE Conference, A2 cluster workshop.
2006 (06 January, Turin) “I risultati della ricerca in Piemonte” - Migranti e co-sviluppo tra l’Italia e il Senegal: il rafforzamento del capitale sociale nell’ambito del fenomeno migratorio senegalese, Province of Turin.
2005 Participation to TV broadcast “Explora – La TV delle Scienze”, Rai Educational; on “Human Migrations”, Rome.
2005 (15 October, Turin) con Prina F., Senegalesi e Nigeriane. L’emigrazione africana in Piemonte: due esempi, Festival di Storia, I Edizione “Migranti per forza”, Saluzzo.
2005 (22 September, Turin) “Senegalesi migranti: associazionismo e imprenditoria nelle politiche di co-sviluppo. Opportunità e criticità del contesto torinese” - Migranti e co-sviluppo. I senegalesi tra madre patria e Torino, seminary organised in the frame of “One World - International Cooperation Cities” (Turin and the International Cooperation Cities for the Olympic Truce).
2005 (10 May, Turin) “Vai e vieni. Esperienze senegalesi di migrazione e lavoro tra Louga e Torino". Discussant: Giovanni Mottura (Sociologia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia). Lesson held in the frame of the cycle of seminars “Crocevia”, FIERI.
2003 (12 September, Turin) “I risultati della ricerca MIDA Italia in Piemonte”, MIDA – Italia, Progetto Pilota per la valorizzazione della Diaspora africana come agente di sviluppo; Diaspore africane e cooperazione decentrata per lo sviluppo”, Regione Piemonte.
2002 (25 May, Turin) “Genre et microcrédit : analyse d’un projet dans la Région de Louga au Sénégal” ; Premiére rencontre Inter-universitaire Turin-Sahel. Dynamiques socio-économiques au Mali et au Sénégal: travail, genre et développement local, Università degli Studi di Torino.
