
Francesca CIMINO
- Position
- Research Grant Holder
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francesca.cimino@unive.it
- Website
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www.unive.it/people/francesca.cimino (personal record)
Francesca Cimino is a post-doctoral researcher at Ca' Foscari University (Dpt. Philosophy and Cultural Heritage) in Sociology (GSPS-05) within the Horizon project MORE- Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives (2023-2026). She is a Lecturer for supplementary teaching activities in 'Qualitative and Visual Methods' (University of Padua, academic year 2024-2025).
Her areas of expertise include migration, human trafficking, gender-based violence, irregularised migrants.
University Education
2017-2022 International joint PhD in "Human Rights, Society, Multi-level Governance" (University of Padova- Human Rights Centre)
2019 Visiting PhD "Panteion University" Athens, Greece
2012-2015 MA "Lifelong education sciences"- University of Padua, Italy
2007-2011 MA "Interculturality and social citizenship (social work)"- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
2004-2007 BA "Education"- University of Turin, Italy
Grants
2025 Bursary to attend MIrreM Spring School 2025 on Approaching Irregular Migration from a Quantitative Perspective: Data, Estimates, Methods.
2020 Bursary to attend ECPR winter school on methods
2017-2022 PhD scholarship
Conferences and Seminars (speaker)
- IMISCOE Spring Conference- 3/2025- Krems Austria
In the quicksand: the uncertain condition of non-returnable migrants in Italy (with Fabio Perocco)
The relevance of multi-level governance on supporting migrants’ administrative regularisation within the framework of labour exploitation: A comparison between the Italian Projects P.I.U. Su.Pr.Eme. and Common Ground (with Rafaela Pascoal)
- European Sociological Association- Annual Conference 8/2024- Porto Portugal
Return and Readmission Policies in Italy: Evolution and Features of the Preferred Answer to Migration (with Fabio Perocco)
The relevance of multi-level governance on contrasting the social health determinants of exploited (or at-risk of exploitation) migrant workers: a comparison between the Project P.I.U. Su.Pr.Eme. in the Region of Sicily and the Project Common Ground in the Veneto Region. (with Rafaela Pascoal)
- XXVII Conferenza ESPAnet Italia 9/2024- Naples Italy
The relevance of multi-level governance on contrasting the social health determinants of exploited (or at-risk of exploitation) migrant workers: a comparison between the Project P.I.U. Su.Pr.Eme. in the Region of Sicily and the Project Common Ground in the Veneto Region. (with Rafaela Pascoal)
- Theatre and Asylum Hearings: Staging (In)justice 4/2024- online
Performing being a refugee or a victim of human trafficking? Italian asylum system pitfalls within a promising practice
- Trafficking, Discrimination and Minority Voices 01/2020 Florence- Italy, Migration Policy Centre- European University Institute (EUI)
"Migrant women and the narrative on labour exploitation: a matter of gender discrimination?"
- On women's rights: between violence and exploitation 11/2019 Padua- Italy
I don't have a choice (and I know): the Intersectional Dimension of women trafficking and the failure of human rights protection
- The Migration Conference 06/2019 Bari- Italy
Protecting Women Victims of Human Trafficking In Mixed Migration Flows: the Challenge of Identification in Italy and Greece
- Resilience in Times of Crisis- Final Scientific Conference of the RESCuE Project 01/2017 WZB – Berlin Social Science Centre- Germany
"The promotion of resilience through Transformative Learning among a group of asylum seekers"
Lectures and Seminars Conducted
- Trafficking in human beings and exploitation: features, causes, and supporting services (3/2025) Within the course "Sociology of migration"- prof. Perocco (UNIVE, FM 8)
- Migration Policies in Italy (01/2025)
Within the course "Social Welfare Policies" – Prof. Visentin (UNIPD, L-39) - Identification of Trafficking Victims (05/2022)
Within the course "EU Immigration Law" – Prof. Borraccetti (UNIFE, LM-52) - Introduction to NVIVO (03/2021)
Introductory course for PhD students - Child Victims of Trafficking: Scenarios, Indicators, and Tools for Practitioners in FVG (01/2021, IAL FVG)
Smuggling, Trafficking, and Severe Exploitation among Unaccompanied Migrant Minors along the Eastern Mediterranean Route - Migrant Women, Public Policies, and Human Rights (12/2019)
Within the course "Public Policies and Human Rights" – Prof. Degani (UNIPD, L-36) - Human Trafficking: Phenomenon and Policies (12/2019)
Within the course "Social Policies and Well-being Cultures" – Prof. Visentin (UNIPD, L-39)
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