IT Country profile

Country profile

Italy

Italy has a long history as a country of immigration and emigration. Located at the centre of the Mediterranean region, it is a gate into the EU along the Western Mediterranean route. Research will be conducted in the region of Campania with Eastern European, West African, and South Asian immigrant communities. Fieldwork focuses on domestic work and cleaning in the metropolitan area of Naples. Additionally, fieldwork on agricultural labour will be conducted in the rural areas surrounding Caserta. Attention will be especially paid to the overlapping of these sectors and the consequent labour mobility between urban and rural settings. In Italy, irregularity with respect to migrants concerns both the high number of undocumented migrants living in Italy and the high rates of irregularity and informality that characterize employment and working conditions of migrant workers, contributing to the development of a “dark grey” labour market.

Academic Partner:

Ca’ Foscari University

Sabrina Marchetti

Associate Professor
Steering Committee member

She is Associate Professor in Sociology, mainly specialised on issues of gender, labour, social movements and migration, with a specific focus on issues of social reproduction. Amongst her recent publications “Migration and domestic work” (Springer) and “Global domestic workers: international inequalities and struggles for rights” (Bristol UP).

Alice Morino

Student
Student-research assistant

Alice is a Master’s student in Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures specialising in Arabic language and literature at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She has been specialising in the sociology of migration for a few years now and in the past has worked as a research assistant for the Italian team of the H2020 project VULNER.

Letizia Palumbo

Researcher
Researcher

She is a researcher in socio-legal studies. Her research focuses on migrant labour, exploitation, trafficking, migrants rights and women’s rights, especially with regard to care/domestic work and agricultural sector.

Giulia Garofalo Geymonat

Senior Research Fellow
Research

She is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, specialised on issues of gender, sexuality, labour, social movements and migration. Amongst her recent publications “Global domestic workers: international inequalities and struggles for rights” (Bristol UP) and “Prostituzione e lavoro sessuale in Italia” (Rosenberg&Sellier)

Country Engagement Partner

Action Aid

Teresa Cecere

Researcher
I-CLAIM Partner

Teresa Cecere works for ActionAid in the Global Inequality and Migration Unit. She is in charge of the implementation of funded projects on migration and integration. Her research focuses are the political participation mechanisms of third-country national communities and the labour conditions of migrant domestic workers in Italy.

Isabella Orfano

Women’s Rights Expert
Thematic Expert

Isabella Orfano works as Women’s Rights Expert for ActionAid Italy. She has extensive experience in research, policy development, networking, lobbying&advocacy on women’s rights, anti-trafficking, migration, and LGBTQI+-related issues. Her work focuses on the protection of human rights of vulnerable groups and the improvement of institutional and non-governmental responses.