Tina Magazzini
Tina Magazzini
QUALIFICATIONS
2018 Ph.D., Human Rights, MSCA Initial Training Network, University of Deusto
2011 M.A., International Relations, City College of New York, CUNY
2007 B.A., Political Science and International Studies, University of Florence
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Minority Representation; Race and Ethnicity; Politics of Solidarity; Migration and Integration Policies; Comparative Politics; Mixed and Visual Methodologies; Citizenship Studies; Diversity Governance; Intersectionality; Religiously Attributed Violent Radicalization.
RESEARCH PROFILE
With an interdisciplinary trajectory spanning political science, sociology, human rights and migration studies, my expertise and comparative research focus on the governance of ethnic and religious diversity, identity politics, and relationships among majorities, minorities, and institutions.
At the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, I am involved in two research projects. Through the Romani Atlantic project, I am investigating transnational Romani identities that challenge Eurocentric frameworks. Through the MyGRACE project, I am analysing migration experiences and migration regimes from below. Both projects are concerned with policies related to social inclusion/ exclusion, solidarity movements, and ways that categories of belonging are created, maintained, and institutionalised.
Prior to joining CAS, I co-directed a H2020 project at the European University Institute on the governance of religious diversity and of violent radicalisation. Beyond my academic research, I also contribute regularly to public scholarship platforms and collaborate with filmmakers, photographers, and documentary film festivals, as well as with UNESCO, UNDP, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and the European Network Against Racism. I am also co-founder and co-director of INTEGRIM Lab, a non-profit organisation that provides evidence-based research on migration, integration, and social justice.
While I am primarily trained in methods for qualitative comparative analysis, I also enjoy working with mixed and collaborative research methodologies. My working languages are English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Book
2025 The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe. Migration and Integration in Italy, Greece, and Spain. Open Access. Cham: Palgrave PIVOT. (co-authors Eleftheriadou, Marina – Triandafyllidou, Anna).
Edited Volumes, Special Issues and Databases
2025 Making solidarity in migration contexts: from the self, the local to the transnational. Special Issue of Journal of International Migration and Integration 26(1). (co-editors Desille, Amandine – Lacroix, Thomas)
2023 Ma(r)king solidarity boundaries towards migrants. Individual, local and transnational experiences. Open Access. Special Issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto - PACO 16(3). (co-editor Desille, Amandine)
2021 Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. London/ New York: Routledge. (co-editor Triandfyllidou, Anna)
2021 State-religion governance indicators. EUI Research Data, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. (co-authors Yakova, Liliya – Dzhekova, Rositsa – Tzvetkova, Gergana – Ttiandafyllidou, Anna – Grossman, Michele – Barolsky, Vanessa – Gerrand, Vivian – Sealy, Thomas – Modood, Tariq – Gemi, Eda – Vékony, Dániel – Mahajan, Gurpreet – Boy Zulian, Pradana – Taskin, Yüksel – Racius, Egdūnas – Ibrahim, Zawawi – Rasid, Imran Mohd – Lahlou, Mehdi – Zoutien, Mounir – Iliyasov, Marat – Fahmi, Georges – Gulalp, Haldun)
2019 Constructing Roma Migrants: European Narratives and Local Governance. Open Access. Cham: Springer. Winner of the 2016 IMISCOE book competition. (co-editor Piemontese, Stefano)
2016 Identity and Cultural Integration. Open Access. Special Issue of The Age of Human Rights Journal 7. (co-editor Morondo Taramundi, Dolores)
Journal Articles
2024 When ethnicity is “national”: mapping ethnic minorities in Europe’s framework convention for the protection of national minorities. Open Access. Ethnic and Racial Studies 47(9): 1812–1833.
2024 United in Diversity? Transnational Heritage in Europe and Southern Africa Between Memory and Anticolonialism. Journal of Intercultural Studies 45(1): 93–110.
2023 In Solidarity: Ma(r)king and Rescaling Solidarity Boundaries towards Migrants. Open Access. Partecipazione e Conflitto - PACO 16(3): 402–413. (co-author Desille, Amandine)
2022 State-religion relations in Southern and Southeastern Europe: moderate secularism with majoritarian undertones. Open Access. Journal of Religion, State and Society 50(4): 396–414. (co-authors Triandafyllidou, Anna – Yakova, Liliya).
2021 Antidiscrimination Meets Integration Policies: Exploring New Diversity-Related Challenges in Europe. Open Access. Social Sciences 10(6).
2018 What’s in a name? Causes and consequences of labeling minorities as ‘national’ or ‘migrant’: Roma in Italy and Spain. International Migration 56(3): 203–220.
2017 Making the most of super-diversity. Notes on the potential of a new approach. Policy & Politics 45(4): 527–545.
2016 Cultural institutions as a combat sport. Reflections on the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. Open Access. The Age of Human Rights Journal 7: 50–76.
2016 ‘Roma’ migration in the EU: the case of Spain between ‘new’ and ‘old’ minorities. Open Access. Migration Letters 13(2): 228-241. (co-author Piemontese, Stefano)
2015 Modèles de gestion de la diversité en Europe et migrations roms: le cas espagnol. Open Access. Confluences Méditerranée 93(2): 51–62. (co-author Piemontese, Stefano)
Book Chapters
2023 State-religion relations in Southern and Southeastern Europe: moderate secularism with majoritarian undertones. In: Modood, Tariq – Sealy, Thomas (eds.): Governing Religious Diversity in Global Comparative Perspective. London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 35–53. (co-authors Triandafyllidou, Anna – Yakova, Liliya)
2021 Managing religious diversity in Europe. In: Davie, Grace – Leustan, Lucian (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 568–584. (co-authors Sealy, Thomas – Modood, Tariq – Triandafyllidou, Anna)
2021 In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture. Open Access. In: Nikielska-Sekula, Karolina – Desille, Amandine (eds.): Visual Methodology in Migration Studies. Cham: Springer, pp. 275-291.
2021 ¿Redistribución, reconocimiento o representación?: una aproximación a las políticas de inclusión en España entre lo local y lo nacional. In: Bergeon, Céline – Lagunas, David – Torres, Francisco (eds.): Gitanos rumanos en España. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, pp. 221-254.
2021 Solapamientos, lagunas e incoherencias en las políticas públicas para la población gitana del Estado español. In: Morondo Taramundi, Dolores – Cruz Ayuso, Cristina de la – La Spina, Encarnación (ed.): Desigualdades complejas e Interseccionalidad. Madrid: Dykinson, pp. 169–184.
2020 The governance of religious diversity: Challenges and responses. In: Triandafyllidou, Anna – Magazzini, Tina (eds.): Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 1-10. (co-author Triandafyllidou, Anna)
2020 The Italian case. ‘Baptised laicità’ and a changing demographic. In: Triandafyllidou, Anna – Magazzini, Tina (eds.): Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 59-73.
2020 Spain. All religions are equal, but some are more equal than others. In: Triandafyllidou, Anna – Magazzini, Tina (eds.): Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 74-87.
2020 Governing religious diversity across the world: comparative insights. In: Triandafyllidou, Anna – Magazzini, Tina (eds.): Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity. London/ New York: Routledge, pp. 309-320. (co-author Triandafyllidou, Anna)
2020 Making the most of superdiversity: notes on the potential of a new approach. In: Phillimore, Jenny – Sigona, Nando – Tonkiss, Katherine (eds.): Superdiversity, Policy and Governance in Europe. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 50-74.
2020 Identity as a Weapon of the Weak? Understanding the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – An Interview with Tímea Junghaus and Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka. In: van Baar, Huub – Kóczé, Angéla (eds.): The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe. Oxford/ New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 281-304.
2020 Integration as an Essentially Contested Concept: Questioning the Assumptions behind the National Roma Integration Strategies of Italy and Spain. Open Access. In: Hinger, Sophie – Schweitzer, Reinhard (eds.): Politics of (Dis)Integration. Cham: Springer, pp. 41-59.
2019 Roma Westward Migration in Europe: Rethinking Political, Social, and Methodological Challenges. Open Access. In: Magazzini, Tina – Piemontese, Stefano (eds.): Constructing Roma Migrants. Cham: Springer, pp. 1–14. (co-author Piemontese, Stefano).
2019 Conformism or Inadequacy of Roma Inclusion Policies? Missed opportunities at the European and Local Levels. Open Acess. In: Magazzini, Tina – Piemontese, Stefano (eds.): Constructing Roma Migrants. Cham: Springer, pp. 51–67. (co-authors Rossi, Monica – Chiozza, Enrica).
2018 When regional inclusion outperforms the state. The case of the Spanish Basque Country. Open Access. In: Lāce, Agnese (ed.): Newcomer Integration in Europe: Best Practices and Innovations in Response to 2015 Crisis. Brussels: FEPS, pp. 143–152.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2025–2028 Migration and Us: Mobilities, Refugees and Borders from the Perspective of the Human Sciences. Operační Program Jan Amos Komenský (OP JAK). Senior Researcher.
2022–2026 Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities. Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship, Czech Academy of Sciences (LQ300582201). Senior Researcher.
Public Outreach
Since 2022 Co-Founder and Co-Director of Integrim Lab, a non-profit organisation providing research services on migration and social justice.
Since 2019 Member of the jury for the Middle East Now Film Festival.
2019–2022 Coordinated Global Extremes at Open Democracy, a series of articles on violent radicalisation across the world in order to help us gain insights and build resilience both on the local and global levels.
2020 Executive producer of the films “Religion and Society. How Faith Fits in Around the World” and “Countering Religious Extremism. Pathways to Peace” within the GREASE project
2016 Contributed to the Global Diaspora Days at the European Commission with a short video on stereotypes titled ‘A Coney Island of the Mind’, also screened at SOAS, and by Film Geographies.
Consultancy and Expert Advice
2024 Changing Dynamics of Diversity in the European Parliament. Funded by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). Comprehensive report.
Since 2019 Included in the #100esperte project, a database of Italian experts on international politics developed by the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) with the support of the European Commission, that aims at modernizing media language that neglects women as experts.
2019 Invited expert to contribute to the Inception Phase of the Diversity Advancement in the Arab Region (DAAR) programme by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
2016-2017 External Expert for the Global Forum Migration and Development.
2016 ROMACT Expert for Italy, Council of Europe and the European Commission.
External Reviewing
Project Evaluation: External Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Book Proposal and Manuscript Evaluation: Blackey; Springer.
Journal Articles Manuscript Review: Journal of Migration and Ethnicity (JEMS); Comparative Migration Studies (CMS); Ethnicities; Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies; Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI); Social Sciences; Configurações – Revista de sociologia; Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics; Review of Political Economy; Journal of Intercultural Studies.
Doctoral Thesis supervision: Anna Giacinti, Faculty of Sociology, University of A Coruña (co-supervision with Keina Espiñeira).
Teaching Experience
2025 Visiting Lecturer for the course Muslims in Europe, Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Global World, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh.
2023–2024 Lecturer in History and Theory of Migratory Movements, Master programme Social Policies and Community Intervention (MOPS), University of A Coruña.
2019–2022 Co-designed, ran and moderated two Massive Online Open Courses on FutureLearn, “Religion, Radicalisation, Resilience” and “Governing Religion: Global Challenges and Comparative Approaches”, for a total of over 7.000 enrolled learners.
2018–2019 Visiting Professor in the Master programme in Gender, Diversity and Politics, Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
2015 Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds.
Invited Talks, Public Lectures or Roundtables
2025 February, 24. Invited Book Launch – The Non-Radicalisation of Muslims in Europe.
University of Edinburgh.
2024 May, 28. Launch of Special Issue ‘What’s Ethnicity Got To Do With It?’ – Landecker Programme, Blavatnik School of Government. University of Oxford.
March, 21. Diversity trends of the European Parliament in light of the European Elections. Anti-Racism and Diversity Week, European Parliament, Brussels.
2023 December, 11. Unpacking Narratives and Policies of Belonging. EUMigs Lectures Series, Neuchatel.
2021 November, 16. ‘Anti-discrimination meets integration policies: new diversity-related challenges in Europe.’ Alfred Landecker Programme Seminars, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2025 May, 21-23. Romani Racialization Beyond Majority-Minority Narratives: Transnationalism, Activism, and Solidarity. Conference, Vila Lanna, Prague. (co-organiser Fotta, Martin)
2022 September, 22-23. Religious diversity matters. Final conference of the GREASE project. Brussels. (co-organiser Triandafyllidou, Anna)
2018 UNESCO and African Centre for Migration & Society conference ‘Southern Perspectives on Migration: Addressing Knowledge Production, Policies and Cooperation’. (co-convenors Landau, Loren – Ahmimed, Charaf)
2016 July, 6–8. International Migration, Integration and Social Justice in Europe. Final Conference of the INTEGRIM project. University of Deusto, Bilbao.
