Federico Alagna is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, and he is part of the Jean Monnet Network “Transnational Political Contention in Europe” (TraPoCo). He also works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, and is an associate member of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University (NL). He holds a PhD (joint doctorate) from University of Bologna and Radboud University.

His main research interests relate to EU and Italian migration policies, with a particular focus on bottom-up processes and on the role played by civil society actors in policy-making and implementation.

Federico has been socially and politically engaged for more than fifteen years, in Italy and abroad, mostly in the fields of municipalism, right to the city, migration and the fight against the mafia. In the past, he also served as Deputy-Mayor for Culture and Public Education of the City of Messina, Sicily.

Research interests: EU studies, migration politics & policy, civil society actors, multi-level governance