Antonella Ceccagno
CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of Languages, Literature and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna
via Cartolerie, 5, 40124 Bologna, Italy
www.unibo.it/sitoweb/antonella.ceccagno/cv-en
Academic Qualification
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
Present Academic Position
Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy, since 2016
Other Positions
√ President and founding member of AISAC (Associazione Italiana Studi Africa e Cina), Local Chapter of The Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network, since 2023.
√Member of the Scientific Committee of Orizzonte Cina, since 2024.
√ Founding member of NAOblog, Enzymes for a cultural transformation, since 2022.
√ Managing Committee di EU COST Action 18215 China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), since 2019.
√ Member of the Teaching Board of the doctoral programme in "Sociology and Social Research" at the University of Bologna, Italy, since 2019.
√ Member of the Teaching Board of the doctoral programme in Social Sciences "Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions' at the University of Padua, Italy (2017- 2019).
√ Director of Research and Managing Director, Center for Immigration Research and Services, Prato (1994-2007).
√ Manuscript Reviewer:* Antropologia * Between * Comparative Migration Studies * Environment and Planning A * Ethnic and Racial Studies * Ethnicities * Fashion Theory * Human Relations * Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power * Information, Communication and Society * International Migration * International Social Science Journal * Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies * Journal of Overseas Chinese * Religions * Stranieri in Italia
Research
I publish in leading journals in Migration and Ethnicity, International Political Economy, and Sociology (e.g. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Networks, International Migration, Current Sociology) and with publishers like Palgrave and Routledge.
Based on long-term ethnographic research, my work builds on the fields of critical migration studies, labor studies, and urban studies.
My research revolves around several themes.
The first theme is international migration, transnationalism, and cultural diversity. This includes a long-term interest in Chinese migration and related labor and social issues in Europe, as well as migrants contribution to city making.
I am also interested in the anthropology of politics. My research revolves around the intersection of law enforcement and urban governance, with a focus on selective law enforcement based on processes of racialization.
More recently, I have been looking at how China is reshaping its transnational space by digitally engaging its diaspora.
I also study how the presence of Chinese transnational workers in Africa challenges dominant conceptualizations of migrant labor.
Ongoing Research Projects
√ How China Speaks to the World, since 2023
√ Transnational Chinese Workers in Africa, since 2022
Previous Research Projects 2005-2023
√ China's Transnational Diaspora Governance (2020-2021).
√ The Political Economy of Law Enforcement (2019-2022)
√ Immigrant entrepreneurs hiring transnational migrant workers (2019-2020)
√ The mobility of workers living at work in Europe (2016-2018).
√ Chinese Soft Power (2013-2016).
√ Migranti cinesi in Veneto (2015-2016).
√ Chinese migrants in Vienna. Social and spatial mobility, (2011-2013).
√ Migranti cinesi in Emilia Romagna (2012-2014).
√ Forced Labor and Trafficking/Smuggling among the Chinese in Italy (2005-2007).
√ Compo-net (2005-2006).
Visiting and Guest Professorship
√ Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo, (March-April 2017).
√ Guest Professor, University of Vienna, teaching two courses on sociology of migration (second semester 2011).
√ Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, April 2008.
Courses at the University of Bologna:
√ Sociology of Migration (Asian Im/mobilities), since 2019
√ China in Africa, since 2019
√ Ethnographic Approach and Social Research, since 2019
√ Asian Migration as Method, since 2019
√ Methodology in the social sciences, since 2021
√ Fieldwork in the social sciences, 2019-2021
√ Sociology of Asia, 2011- 2018
√ Sociology, 2008-2011
√ Chinese language and linguistics, 1999-2018
√ Chinese language (2014-2018)
√ Chinese Culture and Literature (1999-2011)
Publications in the last eight years (2017-2024)
Book
√ City Making and Global Labor Regimes. Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry, 2017, Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.
Articles and Book Chapters
√ 'Selective law enforcement at the intersection of ethnicity and entrepreneurship', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024, 50(8): 2078-2096.
√ 'La violenza simbolica nascosta nella tecnologia. Qualche nota sulla discriminazione di genere nei programmi di scrittura in cinese' Inchiesta, 2024, 8 aprile 2024.
√ 'Digitised Diaspora Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: China’s Diaspora Mobilisation and Chinese Migrant Responses in Italy', Global Networks, 2023, 14: 90-105 (con Mette Thunø).
√ 'The making of a skilled worker: The transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers', Mobilities, 2023, 18(2): 250-266 (con Ru Gao).
√ 'Come la Cina parla ai suoi diasporici: un approccio interdisciplinare alla governance digitale della diaspora cinese' Orizzonte Cina, 2023 14(1): 1-22 (con Carola Ludovica Giannotti Mura).
√ 'Africa e Cina: vecchie e nuove geografie del potere' , Africa e Mediterraneo, 2023, 97: 64 - 69 (con Mariasole Pepa).
√ 'La Cina, WeChat, la competizione tra sistemi e i cinesi d’Italia', Sinosfere, 2022, https://sinosfere.com/2022/07/24/antonella-ceccagno-la-cina-wechat-la-competizione-tra-sistemi-e-i-cinesi-ditalia/
√ Racism for sale? La Cina in Africa, Inchiesta, August 2022.
√ Review of L. Rofel, SJ Yanagisako, Fabricating transnational capitalism. A collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese global fashion' Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2/2021, April-June, 538-541, DOI: 10.1423/101856
√ 'A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe?', International Migration, International Migration, 58 (3), 2020, pp.73-86 (with Devi Sacchetto).
√ The Mobility of Workers living at work in Europe', Current Sociology, 68 (3), 2020, pp. 299-315 (with Devi Sacchetto).
√ 'The Chinese 'grid reaction' in Italy', The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum (with Alessandra Salvati)https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2020/the-chinese-grid-reaction-in-prato-italy/ [http://]
√ 'L'Italia, il Coronavirus e la Cina visti dai nostri telefonini', La Rivista il Mulino (with Francesco Mayo D'Aversa) https://www.rivistailmulino.it/news/newsitem/index/Item/News:NEWS_ITEM:5120 [http://]
√ 'Asian Migration as Method?' Rivista di Studi Orientali, 3-4, 2019, 207- 223.
√ 'Se l'operaio alle dipendenze del cinese e' pakistano', il Mulino online, 4 September 2019 (with Alessandra Salvati).
√ 'Book review: New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations Edited by Yuk Wah Chan and Sin Yee Koh', The China Quarterly, June 2019, 546-547.
√ 'Autenticita', nazionalismo metodologico e made in Italy', 2018, Mondo Cinese, n 163, 33-42.
√ 'Il puzzle del lavoro cinese negli anni della crisi economica' , 2018, in Cinesi tra le maglie del lavoro a edited by Maurizio Ravera and Devi Sacchetto, FrancoAngeli, 181-192.
√ 'Narratives Travelling from the Local to the Global', 2017, in Media & Politics. Discourses, Cultures, and Practices edited by Bettina Mottura, Letizia Osti, Giorgia Riboni, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 392-409.
√ 'Cartoline dall'Italia: Prato', La rivista il Mulino, 5 settembre 2017, www.rivistailmulino.it/news/news/index/NewsCollection/News:NEWS_COLLECTION:11
√ 'New Insights on Global Care', 2017, Sociologia del lavoro, vol. 146, 72-88.
√ 'Chinese in Italy', 2017, in Encyclopaedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, edited by Rint Sybesma,Brill.
√ Book review, 2017, 'Chinese migration to Europe. Prato, Italy, and beyond', edited by Loretta Baldassar, Graeme Johanson, Narelle McAuli, and Massimo Bressan, 2015, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 2, 2017.
√ 'L’etnicizzazione della forza lavoro nella moda italiana', 2017, in Sandro Chignola and Devi Sacchetto (eds), Le reti del valore. Migrazione, produzione e governo della crisi, Roma: Derive e approdi,125-141.
Publications up to 2016
Books
√ Jijiji wawawa, classici dell'animazione cinese' [Jijiji wawawa. Classical Chinese Cartoons], 2011, Bologna: Serendipità (with Zhai Ran)
√ Il cinese. Tipologia e morfologia, elementi di grammatica e esercizi [Chinese. Tipology and Morphology, Elements of Grammar and Exercises], 2010, Bologna: Serendipità.
√ Tradurre dal cinese all'italiano [Translating from Chinese into Italian], 2010, Bologna: Serendipità.
√ Shuobuchulai, la formazione delle parole in cinese [Shuobuchulai, Word Formation in Chinese], 2009, Bologna: Serendipità (with Bianca Basciano).
√ Ombre cinesi? Dinamiche migratorie della diaspora cinese in Italia [Chinese Shadows? Migration Patterns of the Chinese Diaspora in Italy], 2008, Roma: Carocci (with Renzo Rastrelli).
√ Transnational Chinese. Fujianese Migrants in Europe, 2004, Stanford: Stanford University Press (with Frank N. Pieke, Pál Nyíri and Mette Thunø).
√ Giovani Migranti Cinesi [Young Chinese Migrants], 2004, Milano-Roma: Franco Angeli.
√ Lingue e dialetti dei cinesi della diaspora [Languages and Dialects of the Chinese Diaspora in Italy], 2003, Firenze: Giunti.
√ Cinesi d'Italia, storie in bilico tra due culture [Italian Chinese Poised between Two Cultures], 1998, Roma: Manifestolibri.
√ In Cina per lavoro [Going to China on Business], 1995, Milano-Roma: Franco Angeli.
Edited Volumes
√ Migranti a Prato. Il distretto tessile multietnico [Migrants in Prato, the multi-ethnic textile district] 2003, Milano-Roma: Franco Angeli.
√ Comunicazione interculturale e istituzioni. Il caso delle comunità cinesi [Cross-cultural Communication and Institutions. Chinese Migrants as a Case-study], 1997, Roma: Armando.
Book Translation
√ Quel che resta è tuo, original title 无 主 题 的 变 奏 Wu zhuti de bianzou (Variations without a Theme , 1989), 1995, translated and edited, Rome: Theoria.
Articles and Book Chapters
√ ‘Compressing Diversity: Ethnicization of the Workforce and Outsourcing of Social Reproduction as Assets for the Italian Fashion Industry’, 2016, Journal of Population and Social Studies, Social Science Asia, 2/1, 92 - 111.
√ ‘Chinese Volunteering in Africa: Drivers, Issues, and Future Prospects’, 2016, Annali di Ca' Foscari, 52(with Sofia Graziani), doi: *10.14277/2385-3042/AnnOr-52-16-11.
√ 'Chinese neologisms: Word Formation Strategies in Chinese', 2016, in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language edited by Sin-Wai Chan, Routledge, 227-241.
√ 'Africa e Cina: Vecchie e nuove concettualizzazioni', 2016, Mondo Cinese, n 158, 7-22 (with Sofia Graziani).
√ 'Africa e Cina: Imprese e Lavoro', 2016, Mondo Cinese, n 158, 102-113.
√ 'I cinesi nel tessile e lo strabismo delle istituzioni', 2016, il Mulino online, July 20.
√ 'The Mobile Emplacement: Chinese Migrants in Italian Industrial Districts', 2015, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41/7, 1111-1130
√ 'Farewell to tuhao, welcome to tuhao. Language and Society in China as they Emerge from the Buzzwords of the Last Decade' 2014, in Il Liuto e i libri, edited by Magda Abbiati e Federico Greselin, Venezia, Edizioni Cafoscari, 193-204.
√ 'Distretto e migranti cinesi: nuovi approcci', 2014, Inchiesta.
√ 'L'imprenditoria contestata', 2014, Inchiesta.
√ 'The Hidden Crisis: the Prato Industrial District and the Once Thriving Chinese Garment Industry', 2012, in Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 28/4, 43-65.
√ 'Tendenze nella morfologia del cinese: la formazione di parola attraverso la rianalisi', 2012, in Cina. La centralità ritrovata, in Francesca Congiu, Barbara Omnis, Cristina Pinna (eds), Cagliari: AIPSA, 311-324.
√ ‘Chinese Migrants in the Italian Fashion Industry since the Early 20th Century', 2011, in The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe: From the 17th Century to the Present, edited by Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen, Jochen Oltmer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
√ ‘Exploitation of Chinese Immigrants in Italy', 2010, in Concealed Chains. Labour Exploitation and Chinese Migrants in Europe edited by Gao Yun, International Labour Office, 89-138 (with Renzo Rastrelli and Alessandra Salvati).
√ ‘Complessità della morfologia del cinese', 2010, in La Cina e il mondo edited by Paolo De Troia, Roma: Nuova Cultura, 617 – 644 (with Bianca Basciano).
√ ‘Chinese Migrants as Apparel Manufacturers in an Era of Perishable Global Fashion: New Fashion Scenarios in Prato' 2009, in Greame Johanson, Russell Smyth and Rebecca French (eds) Living Outside the Walls: The Chinese in Prato, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 42-74.
√ ‘Metacompounds in Chinese', 2009Lingue e Linguaggio VIII (2), 195-212.
√ ‘The Chinese Language and Some Notions form Western Linguistics', 2009, Lingue e Linguaggio, VIII: 1, 105-135 (with Bianca Basciano).
√ ‘Sino- Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese' 2009, in Rochelle Lieber and Pal Stekauer (eds), The Oxford Book of Compounding, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 478-490, (with Bianca Basciano).
√ "La diaspora cinese", 2009, in Guido Samarani e Maurizio Scarpari (eds), La Cina. III. Verso la modernità, Torino: Einaudi, 297-311.
√ ‘Introduzione', 2009, in Rossella Cecchini, Lanterne amiche, Immigrazione cinese e mediazione interculturale, Reggio Emilia: Anabasis, 13-17.
√ ‘La trama e l'ordito delle nostre paure: i migranti cinesi, la Cina e l'Italia', 2008, in Lida Viganoni (ed)Italia-Cina un incontro di lunga durata, Roma: Tiellemedia, 207-228.
√ ‘Classification Issues for Chinese Compound Neologisms' in Angela Ralli, Geert Booij, Sergio Scalise e Athanasios Karasimos (eds), On-line Proceedings of the Sixth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, , 2008, 75-87 (with Bianca Basciano).
√ ‘I nuovi pratesi', 2008, Aspenia, 41.
√ ‘Compressing Personal Time: Ethnicity and Gender within a Chinese Niche in Italy', 2007, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33/4, 635-654.
√ ‘The Chinese in Italy at a Crossroads: The Economic Crisis', 2007, in Mette Thunø (ed), Beyond Chinatown, Copenhagen: NIAS, 115-136.
√ ‘Compound Headedness in Chinese: An Analysis of Neologisms', 2007, Morphology, n 17, 207-231 (with Bianca Basciano).
√ ‘Chinesische Zuwanderer in der italienischen Modeindustrie seit den 1920er Jahren' 2007, in Klaus J. Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen und Jochen Oltmer (eds), Enzyklopaedie Migration in Europa vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Muenchen: Paderbor.
√ ‘Regolarità e peculiarità dei composti del cinese' , 2007, in Laura De Giorgi e Guido Samarani (eds), Percorsi della civiltà cinese tra passato e presente, Venezia: Cafoscarina, 149-166.
√ ‘Composti del cinese: analisi delle strutture e identificazione della testa' 2007, in Annamaria Palermo (ed) La Cina e l'altro, Napoli, Università degli studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale' 503 – 543 (with Sergio Scalise).
√ ‘Facile o difficile? Alcune riflessioni su italiano e cinese', 2006, in Franca Bosc, Carla Marello & Silvana Mosca (eds), Saperi per insegnare, Torino: Loescher, 151 – 177 (with Sergio Scalise).
√ ‘Classification, Structure and Headedness of Chinese Compounds' 2006, Lingue e linguaggio, vol. 2, 233 – 260 (with Sergio Scalise).
√ ‘ 意大利的中国移民在欧洲市场上的竞争' [ Chinese Migrants in Italy and Competition in Europe], 2006, special issue on 移民与全球化[ Migration and Globalization], Review of Economic Conditions in Italy/Economia italiana vol. 1, 146 - 189.
√ ‘Gender in Chinese and New Writing Technologies' 2006, in Eva Marie Thüne, Simona Leonardi & Carla Bazzanella (eds) Gender, Language and New Literacy. A Multilingual Analysis, London: Continuum, 213-230.
√ ‘Goodbye Dreams of Glory: the Economic Crisis Reaches the Chinese in Italy' 2005, in Estudos sobre a China VII, Lisboa, 737 – 765.
√ ‘Importatori transnazionali, commercianti e microimprenditori: i migranti cinesi in Italia fronteggiano la crisi economica' in Maurizio Scarpari e Tiziana Lippiello (eds) Caro Maestro. Scritti in onore di Lionello Lanciotti, Venezia: Cafoscarina, 2005, 317 – 330.
√ ‘L'epopea veloce: adeguamenti, crisi e successi dei nuovi migranti cinesi', 2005, in Giorgio Trentin (ed) La Cina che arriva, Napoli: Avagliano, 172 – 206.
√ ‘La Cina che esiste in Italia', 2004, Aspenia, vol. 24, 302 - 310.
√ ‘Changing Times: Recent Trends in the Relationship between Chinese Businesses and the Local Market in Italy', 2004, in Giusi Tamburello (ed), L'invenzione della Cina, Lecce: Congedo, 375 - 397.
√ ‘Lingue e dialetti dei cinesi in Italia: percezioni, aspirazioni, ostacoli', 2003, in Emanuele Banfi (ed) Italiano/ L2 di cinesi. Percorsi acquisizionali, Milano: Franco Angeli, 123-150.
√ ‘Le migrazioni dalla Cina verso l'Italia e l'Europa nell'epoca della globalizzazione, 2003, in Antonella Ceccagno (ed), Migranti cinesi a Prato. Il distretto tessile multietnico, Milano- Roma: Franco Angeli, 25-68.
√ ‘New Chinese Migrants in Italy', 2003, International Migration, vol. 41 (3), 187-213.
√ ‘Les Nouveaux migrants Chinois en Italie. Installations productives entre ethnicité et mondialisation', 2003, Migration Société, vol. 15 n 89, 135-150.
√ ‘Prime riflessioni sulla mobilità economica e sociale dei cinesi a Prato', 2002, in Renzo Rastrelli (ed) Dinamiche europee della diaspora cinese, Prato: Provincia di Prato.
√ I cinesi nel distretto del tessile/abbigliamento nelle province di Modena e Reggio Emilia: modelli di insediamento, attività produttive e prospettive future, 2002, unpublished report, Carpi: Spinner.
√ ‘Languages of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe’, 2002, Lingua e Stile, n° 2.
√ ‘Nei-Wai: interazioni con il tessuto socio-economico e forme di autoreferenzialità etnica nelle comunità cinesi in Italia', 1999, Mondo cinese, vol 101.
√ 'Introduzione', 1997, in Antonella Ceccagno (ed) Il caso delle comunità cinesi. Dinamiche interculturali e istituzioni, Roma: Armando,.
√ 'Dinamiche interculturali nella gestione dei servizi ai migranti cinesi', 1997, in Antonella Ceccagno (ed) Il caso delle comunità cinesi. Dinamiche interculturali e istituzioni, Roma: Armando, 111-126.
√ 'Gli effetti del decreto legge 489/95 sui cinesi di Prato', 1997, in Antonella Ceccagno (ed) Il caso delle comunità cinesi. Dinamiche interculturali e istituzioni, Roma: Armando, 59-69 (with Maria Omodeo).
√ 'Il Centro di ricerca e servizi per la comunità cinese di Prato', 1997, in Antonella Ceccagno (ed), Il caso delle comunità cinesi. Dinamiche interculturali e istituzioni, Roma: Armando, 81-109 (with Maria Omodeo).
√ ‘Estraniazione e scoperta dell'altro: il viaggio nella cultura cinese’, 1996, in Serena Macchietti e Giorgio Ianni (eds), Educazione interculturale: questioni e proposte, Firenze: IRRSAE Toscana.
√ ‘Nascita e morte nella cultura cinese’, 1996, in Serena Macchietti e Giorgio Ianni (eds), Educazione interculturale: questioni e proposte, Firenze: IRRSAE Toscana.
√ ‘Tra modello e minaccia: il mondo esterno nei libri di testo cinesi’, 1996, in AA.VV, La metodologia didattica in Cina, Firenze: Regione Toscana.
√ 'Notti cinesi in Toscana' 1996, La terra vista dalla luna.
√ 'Essere cinesi in Toscana', 1995, Limes, 1 (with Maria Omodeo).
√ 'I bambini in Cina', 1995, Cultura ed educazione, January-February (with Maria Omodeo).
