Our Team

Rainer Bauböck

Rainer Bauböck held the chair in social and political theory at European University Institute from 2007 to 2018 and is co-director of the GLOBALCIT and DILEMMAS projects at the EUI. He is also corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences where he chaired a Commission on Migration and Integration Research until 2024. He teaches as a guest professor at the Nationalism Studies Program of Central European University Vienna. His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights.

Gimena Camarero

Gimena Camarero is an Anthropologist with a PhD in Geography and an MScs degree in Environmental and Territorial Policies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She specializes in rural studies, sustainable local development, migrations, gender and family studies, and cultural heritage. She currently works as a lecturer and researcher in the Departments of Rural Sociology and Environmental Management at the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires, as well as in the Rural Development Master’s Degree Program. She is also a Senior Social Consultant specializing in environmental and
agricultural projects.

Luca Chao

Luca Chao holds a PhD in Social and Behavioural Sciences from the University of A Coruña, an MA in International Migration from the University of A Coruña, and a Degree in Political Science and Administration from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Since 2011 she has participated in numerous international research projects on topics related to international migration, citizenship, political participation, exile, and transnationalism. During her career she completed research stays at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHSS) in Paris, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Colegio de México.

Olga Lasaga

Olga Lasaga holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Barcelona. She is a Research Professor in the area of Social Psychology at the UAO CEU. Previously she was Jean Monet Professor (1998-2002) teaching the subject ‘Labour Law and Policies in the European Union’, Visiting Professor at Augsburg University for Applied Sciences and at the Centre for Organisational and Social Studies in Porto. Her research work has focused on employability and groups at risk of social exclusion, resulting in numerous publications both at scientific and knowledge transfer level.

She is the Founder and Co-director (since 2009) of the Labour Observatory at the UAO CEU, Member of the consolidated research group EJES  (Employment, youth and social exclusion) in which she has developed several national and international competitive research projects and contracts with public administrations such as the Diputació de Barcelona and the Servei d’Ocupació de Catalunya. Her latest research has focused on intervention with migrant populations with the aim of improving their self-esteem, employment prospects, and social integration.

Tina Magazzini

Tina Magazzini is a Research Associate at the University of Valladolid (Applied Social Sciences Research Group) and affiliated with the Societies in Motion Research Team (ESOMI) at the University of A Coruña as well as the Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC). With an interdisciplinary trajectory spanning political science, sociology, human rights and migration studies, her expertise and research focus is on the governance of ethnic and religious diversity from a comparative perspective, identity politics, and relationships among majorities, minorities, and institutions.

Beyond her academic research, she also contributes regularly to public scholarship platforms and collaborates with filmmakers, photographers, and documentary film festivals, as well as with UNESCO, UNDP, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and the European Network Against Racism. She is also co-founder and co-director of INTEGRIM Lab, a non-profit organisation that provides evidence-based research on migration, integration, and social justice.

While she is primarily trained in methods for qualitative comparative analysis, she also enjoys working with mixed and collaborative research methodologies. Her working languages are English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Carmen Parra Rodríguez

Carmen Parra Rodríguez is a distinguished legal expert with a robust academic and professional background. She holds Law Degree from the University of Granada and later completed her Doctorate in International Law at the University of Barcelona. In addition, she holds a Diploma in European Law from the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Carmen Parra’s expertise has been recognized by various governmental bodies. From 2004 to 2007, she was a member of the Expert Group of the Ministry of Justice, focusing on the negotiation of international conventions. She is an active member of the Generalitat’s group of experts in family law. Her research and work extend to migration issues, where she is recognized as an expert. Carmen Parra continues to contribute significantly to both the academic and legal fields through her roles as a professor and advisor specifically in international issues related to human rights.

Francesco Pasetti

Francesco Pasetti is a Research Fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and an Adjunct Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. His research focuses on the politics and policy of migration, encompassing various domains such as citizenship, migrant and refugee integration, migration governance, and narratives on migration. He has explored these domains by focusing on different objects of research, including policy outputs, policy implementation, and political discourse; and from different conceptual and theoretical perspectives, mainly referring to policy-process, ideational-institutionalism, and critical discourse analysis.

He is a recognized expert in policy indicators and contributed to the development of several analytical tools for assessing and evaluating migrant-related policies. These include the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX), the REGIN Indicators of Regional Integration Governance, and the ADMIGOV Indicators of Good Migration Governance. Currently, he is working on the externalization of migration control and policies targeting undocumented migrants.

Gideon Reuveni

Gideon Reuveni is director of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. His central research and teaching interest is the cultural and social history of modern European and Jewish history. He is the author of the prize-winning book ‘Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity’ (Cambridge, 2017). In 2023/24 Gideon was a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) in Jerusalem, leading the international research group “Paying for the Past: Reparations after the Holocaust in Global Context” with Iris Nachum and Daniel Siemens. Presently he is finishing a book on the history of the 1952 German-Jewish reparations settlement, and with Daniel Siemens, he started a project on the global history of the United Restitution Organisation (URO), a Jewish legal aid organisation founded in London in 1948. This research is funded by the German Ministry of Finance (2024-27).