Invited lectures and talks

2016, ‘Why do migrant-background individuals join an anti-immigration party? Ethnicity, class and age in National Front activism (France)’, workshop The power of narratives : Demarcating belonging with new approaches, European University Institute.

2015, ‘Che genere di militanza? I percorsi politici di donne e uomini all'interno di due movimenti europei anti-immigrazione’, seminar series Genere e partecipazione politica, Centro Studi di Genere et Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, University of Trento, Italy.

2012, ‘Division sexuelle et internationale du travail domestique et mobilisations anti-immigration en Italie’ (The Sexual and International Division of Domestic Work and Anti-Immigration Politics in Italy), 6ème Congrès international des recherches féministes francophones (6th International Conference of Francophone Feminist Research) ‘Imbrication des rapports de pouvoir : Discriminations et privilèges de genre, de race, de classe et de sexualité’ (Intersections of social relations. Gender, race, class and sexuality), organised by LIEGE - Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne and Laboratoire interuniversitaire en Etudes Genre de la Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2012, with S. Marchetti, ‘The racialisation of care work’, delivered at the conference ‘Migration, Gender and the Limits of Rights’, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

2012, ‘Interrogating Masculinity in the International Division of Care’, international conference ‘Transforming Gender Orders: Intersections of Care, Family and Migration’, organised by Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies (CGC), Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.

2011, ‘Gendering anti-immigration politics in Europe. The Northern League (Italy) and the National Front (France)’, international conference ‘Re-strengthening global sisterhood: Emerging women’s issues for a new global agenda’, organised by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington (USA), FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies) and Foundation Jean Jaurès, Washington.

2011, Discussant at the conference ‘Making connections: migration, gender and care labour in transnational context’, organised by Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and Centre for International Research on Care Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE), Oxford.

2010,Discussant at the international conference ‘Migrations, Travail & Care’ (Migration, Work and Care), organised by CRESPPA/GTM, CNRS, University of Paris 8, Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (Institute for Political Sociology), University of Paris Nanterre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Paris.

2009, ‘Migration, service domestique et rapports sociaux de sexe : qu'en est-il des hommes dans la division internationale du care?’, workshop of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Research Centres for the Study of the Mediterranean Region, the 6th Framework Programme of the EU, Rabat.

2008, ‘The ambiguous enterprise of professionalising domestic service’, seminar of the EUROCORES/ECRP international collaborative network ‘Migration and Networks of Care in Europe’, funded by the European Science Foundation, Amsterdam.

2007, ‘Migration, domestic labour and the restructuring of the Welfare state in France and Italy’, ESRC seminar series ‘Gender, welfare and citizenship in a globalising world’, University of Hull.

2007, ‘Les hommes migrants dans le service domestique. Construction de la masculinité et rapports sociaux de’ (Migrant Men in Domestic Service), seminar series ‘Migrations, Mobilités transnationales et Genre’ (Migration, Transnational Mobility and Gender), University of Paris 10.

2006, ‘Relation de service et rapports sociaux de race’ (Racism and domestic work), seminar ‘Femmes dans la migration’ (Women as international migrants), organised by the thematic network on ‘intersectionality’ Genre, Classe, Race. Rapports sociaux et construction de l'altérité (Gender, Race, Class. The social construction of Otherness) of the French Sociological Association (AFS), Iresco, Paris.

2004, ‘Les frontières du travail domestique’ (Domestic work and ethnic boundaries), seminar series of CEDREF (Centre d’Enseignement, de Documentation et de Recherche pour les Etudes Féministes – Centre for Feminist Teaching, Documentation and Research), Université Paris 7.

2004, ‘Genre, classe, ‘race’ et positionnement du chercheur dans la relation d’enquête’ (Gender, race, class and the ethnographic relationship), paper delivered at the URMIS  (Research Centre on Migrations and Society) seminar series, Nice, France.

2003, ‘Rhétoriques différentialistes dans le service domestique’ (Essentialist thinking and domestic labour), seminar series ‘Genre et migrations’ (Gender and migration), Equipes Simone/Sagesse and Diasporas de l’Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse.

2003, ‘Une division du travail entre les femmes ? Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France’, paper delivered at the seminar of the European Servant Project - The socio-economic role of domestic service as a factor of European identity, ‘Domestic service as a factor of social renewal in Europe’, University of Essex, England. The Servant Project was a thematic and multidisciplinary research network on domestic service, gender and migration, funded within the 6th Framework programme of the European Union.

2002, ‘Les femmes migrantes et la néo-domesticité, ou la reproduction globalisée’ (Migrant women and the globalisation of social reproduction), paper delivered at the seminar series ‘Migrations en Europe’ (Migrations in Europe) URMIS Research Centre on Migrations and Society, University of Paris 7, France.



Conference papers

2016
, with E. Gallo, ‘Migrant Masculinities, Religion and Respectability and Work’, conference Race, religion and migration: spaces, practices, representations, University of Newcastle, UK.

2016, ‘Religion, migration and respectability. Latin American migration and Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Genoa (Italy)’, Migration Working Group seminar series, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

2015, with S. Marchetti, 'Gender, Ethnicity and Migration in Bureaucratised Care Work', Corporate care. Migrant labour and the care industry in times of (non) crisis, Goldsmiths College, London.

2015, ‘Anti-immigration politics and care labour’, 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Uppsala (paper nominated to be considered for the ECPG best paper award, http://www.ecpg.eu/ecpg-best-paper-in-gender-and-politics-award.html).

2014, ‘Caring for the elderly in the family and in the nation?’, international conference ‘Gender and Nationalism’, Middlesex University, London.

2013, ‘Women’s Activism and Gender Relations in the Northern League party’, General Conference of the ECPR - European Consortium for Political Research, Sciences Po Bordeaux.

2011, ‘Usages du thème des droits des femmes dans un parti anti-immigration. Le Groupe Politique Féminin de la Ligue du Nord en Italie’ (The instrumental use of the theme of women’s rights in the Northern League party), Annual conference of the AFS (French Sociological Association), Grenoble.

2011, with S. Marchetti, ‘The gendered construction of a “caring Otherness”. Migrant women working in the “care industry” in Italy and the Netherlands’, international conference ‘WWW - World Wide Women. Globalisation, Gender and Languages’, organised by Research Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CIRSDE), University of Turin.

2009, ‘The taylorisation of domestic service’, 7th Feminist European Research Conference, Utrecht.

2008, ‘Male migrant domestic workers and the management of de-gendered racialized identities’, ESSHC European Social Science and History Conference, Lisbon.

2007, ‘Produzione della femminilità e dell’alterità culturale’ (The Production of Femininity and Otherness), IV Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche (IV Conference of the Italian Association of Women Historians), University of Rome 3.

2004, ‘Les ‘hommes de ménage’ ou Comment aborder les migrations en interviewant des hommes’ (Migrant men working in the Domestic service. Analysing the feminisation of Migrations by interviewing Men), First Conference of the AFS - Association Française de Sociologie (French Association  of Sociology), Villetaneuse, France.

2003,Gender and “race” in the construction of migrant domestic workers in Italy and in France’, Fifth European Feminist Research Conference, Lund University.

2002, ‘Les femmes migrantes et le travail domestique rémunéré’ (Migrant women and paid domestic work), international conference Troisième Colloque International des Recherches Féministes Francophones (3rd International Conference for Francophone Feminist Research), University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, Toulouse, France.