Vice Direttrice
Irene Ponzo is the Deputy Director of FIERI (Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, www.fieri.it). She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Sociological Research at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2006 and she was Visiting scholar at COMPAS, University of Oxford, in 2013. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the IMISCOE-Springer collection on Migration. Her main research interests are migrant integration and integration policies. Over the last years, she has mainly worked on asylum seekers’ reception and integration.
Irene Ponzo è vicedirettrice di FIERI. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Ricerca Sociale comparata presso l’Università di Torino (Italia) nel 2006 e nel 2013 è stata Visiting scholar presso COMPAS, Università di Oxford. È membro dell’Editorial Board della collana su migrazione IMISCOE di Springer. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca sono le politiche di integrazione e integrazione dei migranti. Negli ultimi anni ha lavorato principalmente sull’accoglienza e l’integrazione dei richiedenti asilo.
- Pastore F. and Ponzo I. (2016) Changing Neighbourhoods: Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities, Dordrecht, Springer, http://www.springer.com/us/
book/9783319230955 . - Ponzo, I. (2019) The Great Recession as a ‘stress test’ of migrant incorporation in Europe. Are Southern European countries really lame ducks?, Migration Studies, mnz048,published on line on 20th November 2019, https://academic.oup.
com/migration/advance-article- abstract/doi/10.1093/ migration/mnz048/5634223 - Pogliano A. and Ponzo, I (2019), Local Narrative-Making on Refugees: How the Interaction Between Journalists and Policy Networks Shapes the Media Frames, in. B. Glorious and J. Doomernik (eds.), Geographies of Asylum in Europe and the Role of European Localities, IMISCOE Research Series, Cham, Springer, pp. 113-134, https://link.
springer.com/chapter/10.1007/ 978-3-030-25666-1_6 - Finotelli C. and Ponzo I. (2018) Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44:14, 2303-2319 http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/
buTeRe9aEUFWjgjAKZqe/full. - Ponzo, I. (2018) Modes of migrant incorporation in contexts of socio-economic downward mobility, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 44, no. 14, 2435–2452, http://www.tandfonline.com/
doi/full/10.1080/1369183X. 2017.1346043
- Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG): Connectivity and Mobility as Solutions to Protracted Refugee Situations (2019 – 2022).
- Investing in “welcoming spaces” in Europe: revitalising shrinking areas by hosting non-EU migrants (WelcomingSpaces) (2020-2022).
- CapaCityMetro-ITALIA (2019-2021).
- MIGLIORA 2. Migrazione e Integrazione: Generare Legami, Integrazioni e Opportunità per i Rifugiati nelle Aree rurali e urbane (2019 – 2021).
- InterAzioni in Piemonte 2 (2018 – 2020).
- Migration Politics and Governance (MiGPOG) Standing Committee IMISCOE (2019 – ad oggi).