EDUCATION

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA. 2001-2004 (mention of excellence).
European Doctorate in Urban and Local Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Research.
“Patterns of high skilled international mobility: matching recruitment strategies and migration plans. The case of Information Technology in Romania”.

BABEJ-BOYLIAI UNIVERSITY, CLUJ NAPOCA – ROMANIA, 2003
Phd Exchange and research fieldwork.

UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA, 2000.
Political Sciences (110/110 magna cum laude).

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, USA. 1999.
Exchange - College of Arts and Sciences. Sociology department.
Attending undergrad and grad courses plus Independent thesis: ethnographic study on “The construction of local identity: The Italian community in Boston, Us”.

PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK.1995
Exchange - School of Social and Historical Studies. Erasmus Exchange Program.
Attended undergrad courses.

additional courses

ISPI - ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI POLITICA INTERNAZIONALE, 2003
Summer School “The EU Enlargement: economic, political and social aspects”,

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, Faculty of Architecture, 2003
School of urban planning, Urban recognition and regeneration, Orebiæ-Korèula, Croatia.

HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, 2002
International Federation for Housing and Planning – Urban Planning and Design School at the Centre for Urban and Regional StudiesHelsinki University of Technology “How to revitalize villages”

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Department of Social Policy, 2002
School “Urban change in a Network Society”

PUBLICATIONS


CURRENT POSITION:
- Senior Researcher at CeSPI (Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale). Currently involved in the Fondazioni4Africa project in Italy and in Senegal. Funded in Italy by four bank foundations (Fondazione Cariplo, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Cariparma and San Paolo), the project aims to sustain development initiatives in Italy and Senegal and improve the channelling of remittances to Senegal. Four NGOs, two migrant associations and the research institute CeSPI are involved in the project. Among the activities the project undertakes is one directed at channelling remittances into microfinance institutions in Senegal and another at training migrant associations in managing development projects in the origin country.
http://www.cespi.it

- 2007-2009. Consultant for Policy and Research Division, Financial Sector team at DFID (Department for International Development of the UK government). Co-editing the Migrant Remittances Newsletter, a joint USAID-DFID initiative.
http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=13069_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC




RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
- 2009-2011. CeSPI (Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale). Fondazioni4Africa Project.
- Microfinance and remittances. Study on the potentials of migration for development by linking MFIs and migrants and migrant associations. Research - fieldwork activities in Italy and in Senegal (May-June 2009, fieldwork in collaboration with Prof. Papa Demba Fall, IFAN, University of Dakar and prof. Papa Beye, Ecole Nationale d’Economie Appliquè).
- Strengthening capacity building of migrant associations for co-development activities. Research - fieldwork activities in Italy.
- 2009. CeSPI. WMIDA IOM Project. Transparent Remittances: feasibility study and creation of a web instrument to sustain transparency and price comparison on migrant remittances. The website goes under the works of the G8 - Global Working Group on Remittances (GWGR).
Feasibility study and project management to sustain a process of money transfer-migrant remittances transparency and operators competition. Creation of the website “mandasoldiacasa.it” to be launched within the works of the G8-Italy, 2009.
- 2009. CeSPI. Technical assistance to the Municipality of Milano, International Cooperation Bureau, for the call “Milano per il Cosviluppo 2009 - Co-development call for projects” directed to the engagement of diaspora groups for the development of origin countries.
- 2009. CeSPI - UNICRI. Reseach project on “Diaspore africane per lo sviluppo. African diasporas for development”. Study on the role of African cultural élite for development.
- 2009. CeSPI study “The Sudanese highly skilled Diaspora for development”, for UNICRI, United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice – a study on the Sudanese Diaspora involved in the UNDP Tokten Program to convert brain dran in brain gain (to start in September 2009).
- 2008. CeSPI. Techincal assistance to the Municipality of Milano, International Cooperation Bureau, for the call “Milano per il Cosviluppo 2008 - Co-development call for projects” directed to the engagement of diaspora groups for the development of origin countries.
- 2008. CeSPI. “The transnational entrepreneurship of Andean migrants in Italy”, research-action to channel productive remittances of Andean entrepreneurs in Italy for the development of origin countries.
- 2007-2008. CeSPI. Technical assistance to create the first Italian “3x1 Matching fund program - Juntos por los Andes” directed at channelling collective remittances of Andean migrant associations.
- 2007-2008. CeSPI. Municipality of Milan. Benchmarking study on co-development polices in EU and analysis of the “Milano per il Cosviluppo 2008 - Co-development call for projects” process, and technical assistance on the Co-Development call by the Municipality of Milan, call open to diaspora associations supporting co-development projects in origin countries.
- 2007-2008. CeSPI. “African Diaspora and Development: preliminary study on the role of African élite in Italy for the development of the origin country”. Research project financed by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- 2006-2007. “L’imprenditoria immigrata transnazionale a Milano”, (study on migrant transnational entrepreneurship), Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Studi Politici e Sociali. Research project supervised by Prof. Maurizio Ambrosini.
- 2006-2007. CeSPI. “Estudio de Factibilidad para la Canalización y Valorización de las Remesas de los Immigrantes Peruanos en Italia (feasibility study to channel and make value of Peruvian remittance flows). CeSPI (Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale). Study commissioned by the Banco Intermaricano al Desarrollo – Fomin-Bid.
- 2006-2007. CeSPI. MIDA (Migration for Development in Africa), an IOM (International Organization for Migration) project focused on Ghana and Senegal. Aim of the project: channel productive and collective remittances to support local development. Study on the financial instruments to channel remittances and Mission in Ghana and Senegal (field work in collaboration with Prof. Papa Demba Fall, IFAN, University of Dakar).
- 2005-2007. Post Doc Fellowship at QUA_SI, (Communication and Information Technologies applied to knowledge society and education processes), Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca.
- 2005. CeSPI. Qualitative study on “Migrant Banking”, research project by ABI (Associazione Bancaria Italiana) and CeSPI.
- 2001-2004. Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, European research project PEMINT. “The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe”, European Commission, 5th framework Program. A study concerning labour recruitment and international migration under the impact of different frameworks in six European countries. (www.pemint.ces.uc.pt/index.htm). Supervised by Prof. Emilio Reyneri.
- 2004. CeSPI. “Gli Egiziani in Italia: tre casi studio - Roma, Milano, Emilia Romagna”, for Integrated Migration Information System, IMIS, joint collaboration among the Emigration Sector of the Ministry of Manpower and Emigration, the Italian Government as the donor partner and IOM (International Organization for Migration) as the implementing agency.
- 2004. CeSPI. Study on “Il transnazionalismo dei Senegalesi in Italia” (transnationalism of senegalese migrants).
- 2002. University of Urbino, EUREX Project of Visual Sociology. On line visual observatory on Urban Transformation, Poverty, Spatial Segregation and Social Exclusion in European (www.shiva.uniurb.it/eurex). Audio-visual researching the city of Milan and Helsinki.
- 2001. Università degli Studi di Padova. “Gender and Social Capital in reproducing the power elites”, qualitative research based on the network analysis and the social capital theory.
- 1999. Boston University. Participation in the research “American City: A Social And Cultural History”, Boston University, Department of Sociology. Supervised by Prof. Daniel J. Monti.
- 1998-1999. Independent thesis study on the “The Italian community in Boston. The construction of an ethnic identity”. Supervised in Italy by Prof. Enzo Mingione, Università degli Studi di Padova and in Boston by Prof. Daniel J. Monti, Boston University.


PUBLICATIONS
- 2009. “Dualità e complementarietà delle rimesse tra percorsi di valorizzazione in patria e inclusione finanziaria in Italia”, with D. Frigeri. Book Charter. Dossier ISMU 2009, (expected Publication , December 2009).
- 2009 “Immigrazione e mercato del lavoro” (Immigration and labour market). In Immigrazione. La cassetta degli attrezzi”, with I. Fellini. Book Chapter. FIERI (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione), Carocci Editore.
- 2009. “Immigrazione e Lavoro autonomo. La componente transnazionale dell’imprenditoria immigrata a Milano”. (Transnational entrepreneurship, a case study). Book Chapter in “Intraprendere tra due mondi”, eds. Maurizio Ambrosini. Il Mulino.
- 2008. “Transnazionalismo e co-sviluppo” (“transnationalism and co-development”), with E. Castagnone e P. Mezzetti. Ed. Ediesse QRS.
- 2008. “La diaspora e le iniziative di cosviluppo. Il caso di Juntos Por Los Andes”, with J. L. Rhi-Sausi. In “Dagli Appennini alle Ande: le rimesse dei latinoamericani in Italia”, Ed. Franco Angeli, Fondazione ISMU e Rial – Rete Internazionale America Latina.
- 2008. “Strumenti finanziari per l’invio delle rimesse degli immigrati”, with E. Estruch and D. Frigeri. In “Dagli Appennini alle Ande: le rimesse dei latinoamericani in Italia”, Ed. Franco Angeli, Fondazione ISMU e Rial – Rete Internazionale America Latina.
- 2008. “Highly skilled Romanians abroad”, ed. Polirom (translation into Romanian of the original article published by Unesco-Cespes Quarterly, 2004).
- 2008. “International Outsourcing in the ICT Sector: Firms’ Strategies and High Skilled Workers within a Spatial Division of Labor". Book chapter in “IT Outsourcing" edited by T.P.Rajmanohar-Consulting Editor in Icfai Research Center, Chennai.
- 2007. “Recruitment processes and labour mobility: The construction industry in Europe”, co-authored with I. Fellini, G. Fullin. Work Employment & Society, Routledge Publications Vol. 21, n. 2, 277-298.
- 2006. “Desired mobility or satisfied immobility”, Journal of Education and Work, Quarterly, Routledge Publications, Vol. 19, n. 2, April 2006, pp. 171-200 (30).
- 2006. “International outsourcing in the ICT sector: firms strategies and high skilled workers within a spatial division of labour”, Journal of Knowledge Management, ICFAI University Press, Vol. IV, n. 2, June 2006 and Managing Knowledge Workers, ICFAI Professional Reference Book, ICFAI University Press, 2006.
- 2005. “Gli italiani negli Stati Uniti del XX secolo”, ed. CSER - Center for Migration Studies Rome (Monograph), Co-authored with M. Pretelli. Awarded by CSER in 2000 as best thesis dealing with social aspects of emigration
- 2005, “Suunnittelun kumppanuudet.Tapaus Vuosaari”, eds. Pia Bäcklund, Harry Schulman, Helsingin kaupungin tietokeskus, Helsinki (ISBN 952-473-566-0), [original title “Urban Governance: A case of local partnership in Vuosaari, Helsinki”]
- 2004. “Recruitment strategies and labour migrations in the construction sector”, IMIS –Beiträge, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, 25/2004, co-authored with I. Fellini, G. Fullin and U. Hunger.
- 2004. “Contingentamento dei flussi di ingresso: il ricorso alle quote di lavoratori stranieri in tre settori”, Rivista “Politiche Sociali”, Italian Journal of Social Policy, Ed. Ediesse, co-authored with I. Fellini, G. Fullin, B.Da Roit, vol. 3, 2004.
- 2004. “A picture of Romanian’s high skilled emigration”, UNESCO-CEPES Quarterly, HEE vol. 23, n. 3, 2004, CARFAX
- 2002. “La costruzione dell’identità etnica – studio etnografico della comunità italiana a Boston”, Rivista Passaggi transculturali, Ed. Harmattan, Torino.


WORKING PAPERS
- 2009. “I migranti senegalesi in Italia e le possibilità di canalizzazione delle rimesse verso le mutuelles in Senegal”, with D. Frigeri. CeSPI WP within the Fondazioni4Africa Project. Expected publication, 2010.
- 2009. “Modelli per la canalizzazione delle rimesse attraverso le istituzioni di microfinanza. Analisi delle variabili e ipotesi di percorsi”, with D. Frigeri. CeSPI WP within the Fondazioni4Africa Project. Expected publication, 2010.
- 2008. “Politiche municipali per il cosviluppo Esperienze europee a confronto e benckmarking del Bando sul co-sviluppo del Comune di Milano, 2007-2008”, with P. Mezzetti. Cespi WP 49/2008. http://www.cespi.it/WP/WP-49%20Ferro-Mezzetti.pdf
- 2008. “Le diaspore africane tra due continenti. Indagine sulle percezioni e gli atteggiamenti delle élites africane in Italia in merito allo sviluppo dell'Africa” with S.Ceschi, P.Mezzetti and F. Vola.
http://www.cespi.it/WP/WP38-diaspore-elite-Ceschi.pdf
- 2008. “Strumenti metodologici per la ricerca sugli effetti delle migrazioni e del transnazionalismo nel paese d’origine” (Methodologies to study the effects of transnational migrations in the origin countries), with E. Castagnone and P. Mezzetti. CeSPI WP 42 for OIM-MIDA (Migration for Development in Africa). http://www.cespi.it/WP/WP42-oimmida.pdf
- 2006: Financial instruments for the optimization of the role of remittances in development. OIM-Strategy Paper for MIDA (Migration for Development in Africa, OIM project - Ghana/Senegal), November 2006, co-authored with D. Frigeri (http://www.cespi.it/Prog%20MIDA/PFrigEnglish.pdf)
- 2006. Il mercato delle rimesse in Italia: il caso degli immigrati latino-americani, (Remittance flows in Italy: case study of latin american migrants), co-authored with E. Estruch, D. Frigeri, supervised by Josè Luis Rhi-Sausi.
- 2004 ICT: un settore globale a Milano, tra mobilità internazionale dei lavoratori e global outsourcing delle imprese. Rapporto sulla Globalizzazione nell’area milanese 2004, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano per la Camera di Commercio di Milano.


PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES
- 2009. Brandais University, “The African diasporas between two continents. Study on the perceptions and attitudes of the african elite in italy for the development of Africa”. Presented at “At Home Abroad: Diasporas and Homelands. Scholarly Workshop”, Boston.
- 2009. The George Washington University, “The African diaspora for development. Studies and projects”, Washington DC.
- 2009. Attending the” Worker's Remittances. Creating New Markets Opportunities”. ICBI's second annual conference on Workers' Remittances will bring together 40+ leading experts in the field of remittances. Rome, 2-3 July.
- 2007. International Forum on Remittances, Washington D.C. ‘Promoting rural development in countries of origin through migrants’ entrepreneurial remittances’. Organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). 18-19 October 2007, Washington DC.
- 2006. “Potencialidades económicas de la remesas de los peruanos en Italia”. Seminario Internacional from CESPI (Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale), “Los peruanos en Italia y el desarrollo del Perú”, August 1st, 2006, Lima.
- 2006. “Proposte per canalizzare e valorizzare le rimesse dei migranti peruviani (e andini)”, (Proposals to channel and make value of remittance flows of Peruvian migrants), presented with Josè Luis Rhi-Sausi at conference “Il mercato delle rimesse in Italia: il caso degli immigrati latino-americani”, 24 ottobre 2006, Regione Lombardia, Camera di Commercio di Milano, ILA.
- 2006. “Firm strategies affecting labour mobility in Europe: Recruiting foreign workers in the construction industry”, ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, COMPAS Annual International Conference, July 5th-6th, 2006 ‘International Labour Migration: In Whose Interests?’, University of Oxford, Centre for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.
- 2005. “Desired mobility or satisfied immobility? Aspirations to migrate among highly skilled workers within the IT (Information Technology) global outsourcing practice”, presented at the International Institute of Sociology Congress, Stockholm, July 2005.
- 2005. “The recruitment of foreign workers in some European countries. A comparative analysis on the construction sector” presented at the international SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), Annual Meeting, University of Budapest, 2005.
- 2005. “Mobility and migration of the highly skilled workers. Framing aspirations and projects”, presented at AIEL (Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro), National Conference of Labour Economics, University La Sapienza, Rome 2005.
- 2005. "Cultural intersections and intermittent ethnicities. Portrait of a group of young Italian Americans in Boston", presented at AHIA conference, American Italian Historical Association, at UCLA, Los Angeles.
- 2004. “A picture of Romanian’s high skilled emigration – Email from abroad, sketches of brains”, presented at the International Roundtable of UNESCO-CEPES on “Brain Drain and the Academic and Intellectual Labour Market in South East Europe”, Bucharest, June 18-19 2004.
- 2003. “Labour migration in the construction sector”, presented at the conference “Labour migration in Europe: State of the art” in connection with the 40th anniversary of the faculty of social sciences, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, May 9th, 2003.
- 2003. “Mobility and migration of workers in the Information and Communication Technology: polices and strategies of Italian firms”, presented at the Congress AIS-ELO “Sociology and New Economy”, Milano, November 20-21 2003.


SEMINARS
- Limes, “Oltre l’integrazione subalterna e il lavoro autonomo”, Università degli studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali Politici, 8 maggio 2007
- 2006-2007. CESPI (Centro Studi Politica Internazionale) internal workshops for the Banche di Credito Cooperativo (BCC) on Migrant banking and remittance flows.
- Mobility of highly skilled workers, University of Milano-Bicocca, Nomadis. Seminar for Ph.d Students, 13 febbraio 2007.
- Limes, “Oltre l’integrazione subalterna e il lavoro autonomo”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali Politici, 8 maggio 2007.
- Ciclo Di Seminari Crocevia 2006 – 2007 FIERI - Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione, International and European Forum on Migration Research: "Migranti qualificati, tra spreco e delocalizzazione. Il caso della Romania", 14 dicembre 2006 - Sala Lauree, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Torino (http://www.fieri.it/pagInterna.cfm?liv=7&pag=seminari_crocevia&id=308)\
- Evoluzione dei processi migratori: Italia, da terra di emigranti a terra di immigrati, 15 febbraio 2006, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei di Milano, Palazzo delle Stelline.
- Ciclo seminari americani, "Etnicità intermittenti: giovani italo-americani a Boston", 7 marzo 2006, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università degli Studi di Milano.
- "Immigration to Italy: sources availability and reliability of data”, Provincia di Milano, November 2004.


TEACHING ACTIVITY
- 2007. ISPI (Istituto di Studi di Politica Internazionale), Master in International Cooperation “Intercultural communication”
- 2007 ISPI (Istituto di Studi di Politica Internazionale), Summer school. “Multiculturalism and Development”.
- 2007. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Master in International Cooperation. “Studiare i fenomeni migratori: analisi dei dati”.
- 2006-2008. Tutorship, “Economic Sociology – Professions of Tourism”, Milano Bicocca University, Faculty of Sociology, Italy.
- 2002. Assistant Professor “Techniques of qualitative research”, in Methodology and techniques of the Social Research, Prof. G. Monaci, University of Milano Bicocca, Faculty of Psychology, Italy.
- 2002. Assistant Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, “How to revitalize Villages”. International Summer school, Project of local regeneration commissioned by the Municipality of Porvoo, Finland to the Helsinki University of Technology.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES
- 2006. Referee for IM – International Migration, journal published on behalf of the International Organization for Migration.
- Since 2004. Included in the IMISCOE Network of Excellence in the domain of International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion. The Network brings together some 300 selected, highly qualified researchers. Based on their wide-ranging skills and experience in international comparative research, the institutes implement an integrated, multidisciplinary, rigorously comparative research programme, with Europe as its central focus.
- Awarded as best Thesis “Matching recruitment strategies and migration plans”, by Circolo Africa, Ancona 2007.
- Awarded as best Thesis “La comunità Italiana a Boston”, by CSER (Centro Studi Migrazione Roma), 2000.
- Press and organization desk for the conference “Nuovi Italiani. Percorsi e meccanismi di integrazione e cittadinanza”. Università degli Studi di Milano. Dipartimentio di Studi Politici e Sociali. June, 23rd 2009.


JOURNAL REVIEWS
- Altretalie N. 31, 2005. Matteo Pretelli e Anna Ferro, Gli italiani negli Stati Uniti del XX secolo, reviewed by Paola Corti (151-53). www.altreitalie.it
- University of Chicago Press, Journal Division, Sponsored by Comparative and International Education Society: (2005) Bibliographic Essay Changing Emphases in Scholarly Discourse, Ferro Anna. "Romanians Abroad: A Snapshot of Highly Skilled Migration." http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CER/bibliog05.html


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- 1995-2007. Active member in the international organization C.I.S.V (Children International Summer Villages), an independent, apolitical, volunteer NGO connected to UNESCO. The aim of CISV is to promote cross-cultural knowledge. Leader of the Italian delegation in Denmark, Sweden and US, and Camp Director in Cortina D’Ampezzo, BL