Martina Lo Cascio research fellow at Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, studying how civil society actors drive change towards transformative environmental governance. She was researcher fellow at European university Institute to take part at the research “ Is Italian agriculture a pull factor for irregular migration-and, if so, why?” coordinated by Alessandra Corrado. She holds a PhD in Social and Psychological Sciences (University of Palermo). Her research focuses on migrant labour in intensive agricultural production in Southern Italy. During her PhD, she conducted an ethnographic research on olive chains in Western Sicily, focusing on seasonal workers’ and producers’ representations of the chains and of their own conditions.