Monica Massari
Prof. Monica Massari
Member of the Scientific committee.
Monica Massari is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of International, Legal and Historical-Political Studies of the University of Milan, after several years spent at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Her research activities have mostly addressed issues related to the relationships between globalization, complex forms of crime and illegal markets and, since the early 2000s, she has been focussing on migration (especially irregular migration across the Mediterranean) and new forms of racism and discrimination in Europe.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association-ESA and in July 2017 she was elected member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime Network of Experts. She has recently co-edited the book Mafia Violence. Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans (with V. Martone, Routledge 2019), the special issue on “Biography and Society” of Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia (with R. Breckner, 1/2019) and the special issue on “Emancipatory Social Science Today” of Quaderni di Teoria Sociale (with V. Pellegrino, 1/2019). Her latest book is Il corpo degli altri. Migrazioni, memorie, identità (Orthotes, 2017).