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Rossella Marino

PhD Fellow

Education
PhD, Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University, 2023
Education
MA, European and International Studies, University of Trento, Italy
Education
BA, Political Science, University of Naples, Italy
Institutes
UNU Centre UNU-CRIS
Contacts
rmarino@cris.unu.edu

Rossella Marino is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University.

Rossella Marino has obtained her PhD in Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University in September 2023, being also a PhD fellow at UNU-CRIS since 2019. Her research has revolved around European migration governance in The Gambia. For that, she has spent extended fieldwork visits in the West African country. This research has been published in top-tier migration-related journals, such as the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Journal of Refugee Studies. Rossella has presented at relevant migration- and Africa-related academic conferences, including IMISCOE and ECAS. She currently teaches Social Work and Social Pedagogical literature at Ghent university. Prior to her PhD, Rossella was research intern at UNU-CRIS and VUB’s Institute for European Studies (IES).

Research Interests 

Global and European Migration Management
EU-Africa Relations
Migration Management Discourse and Philosophy