Marco Borraccetti is Associate Professor of European Union Law at Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna; he is Co-director of the European Regional Master Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe (GC/SEE ERMA) and Coordinator of MIGLAB-Studi sulle migrazioni (MIGLAB-Studies on migration), a Center of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna. He is also representing the University of Bologna at the Global Campus of Human Rights, where he is Member of the Global Campus Council.
His main research interests are migration, borders management and trafficking in human beings from a EU law perspective.
His activities are included in the following ERC Sector: Constitutions, human rights, comparative law, humanitarian law, anti-discrimination law (SH2_4); International relations, global and transnational governance (SH2_5); Environmental and climate change, societal impact and policy (SH2_7); Political systems, governance (SH2_1.
Main academic presentations and conferences organisation are following:
In particular, during 2020:
Migrazioni e Vulnerabilità: contrasto alla tratta di persone e tutela delle vittime, Università del Salento, 26.11;
The externalisation of asylum: the border procedure in the new proposal of Asylum Procedure Regulation, in 2nd International Workshop from the Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies. Responsibility-Sharing or Responsibility-Shedding, Deakin University, 19.2;
during year 2019:
Alla ricerca di una politica europea dell’integrazione, Convegno L’Europa allo specchio: la politica UE di immigrazione e asilo a vent’anni da Tampere, Accademia di diritto e migrazioni, Universita’ della Tuscia, Viterbo, 15.11;
Migration and Human Rights in Europe, Arab Master in Human Rights and Democracy (ARMA), Universite’ Saint Joseph - Beirut, 18.9;
The Migration "Crisis" and the Rise of Populism in Europe, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs - American University Beirut, 19.9;
The Global Compact on Migration and Domestic Isolationism – Case Study Italy, Workshop Global negotiations on refugee rights isolationism and the development of legal norms, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Prato Centre, 11.6;
La prevenzione e la repressione della tratta di esseri umani nel diritto dell’Unione europea, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, della Comunicazione e delle Relazioni Internazionali, Università di Macerata, 6.3;
In 2018,
Migrazioni e Vulnerabilita’: lotta alla tratta di persone e protezione delle vittime, Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Università di Firenze, 9.11;
L’Italia e i rimpatri: breve ricognizione degli accordi di riammissione, Conference: Immigrazione. Tra disinformazione, ansie e solidarietà, Università di Macerata, 17.5;
The Evolution of the Concept of Free Movement of People: From One Step Forward to One Step Backward, 25th International Conference of Europeanists - Europe and the World: Mobilities, Values and Citizenship, Chicago, 28-30.3;
La prevenzione e la repressione dello smuggling e del trafficking di esseri umani, Round Table Gestione delle migrazioni irregolari e tutela dei diritti umani: un confronto tra gli accademici e i pratici, Università Orientale, Napoli, 16.1.
Furthermore, in 2017
Recent Trends in European Law - The Impact of the Commission Proposal for a New Regulation of the Schengen Area, Workshop Responding to Refugees and Irregular Migration in Australia and the EU: Practices to Adopt and Policies to Avoid [http://www.monash.it/news-and-events/event/show/responding-refugees-irregular-migration-australia-eu-practices-adopt], Monash University Prato Centre, 1.12;
The Vulnerables, the Invisibles, the Forgotten, Conference International Cooperation in Responsibility-Sharing for Refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean Space, American University Cairo, 9-10.10;
La relation entre migration et terrorisme, Universite’ Soultan Moulay Slimane, Beni Mellal, 13.9;
The EU and the fight against trafficking in human beings as an Issue of Justice, Workshop on Justice on the Move: Evaluating Migration Policies in the European Space, Bertinoro, 1-2.7;
Environment, Migration and Global Justice, Workshop on Climate change and Global Justice, University of Tubingen, 11-12.5;
Migrazione e mobilità di persone nei Trattati europei, Seminario di ricerca Sissco - l'Europa tra migrazioni, decolonizzazione e integrazione (1945-1992), Università di Bologna – Campus di Forlì, 3.3;
In 2016,
La tratta di esseri umani e il suo contrasto: il fenomeno, le disposizioni giuridiche, la prassi applicative, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Pisa, 17.11;
Trafficking in Human Beings and New Ideas for a Fair Legal Framework, Alliance of Leading University on Migration (ALUM) - Workshop, University of Mannheim, 2-4.11;
The future of the EU migration policy: management of borders and the idea of human mobility, International Conference European Union and Western Balkans relations in future perspectives, University of Tirana, 22.6;
A new/old challenge for the EU migration policy: between a new management of borders and the idea of human mobility, International Conference Migrations and the Future of the Euro-Mediterranean Relationships for the Project of a New Partnership, University of Bologna – Ravenna Campus, 26.5;
In 2015,
Trafficking in Human Beings and Human Security: A Comprehensive Approach, 7th Graz Workshop on Human Security, University of Graz, 26-27.11;
Migration, Equality and Access to Victims’ Rights, International Conference The principle of equality in EU Law, University of Bologna, 19.5;
Migration, Security, Refugees: a bit of history repeating?, Estonian Academy Security Sciences, “Challenges to Resettlement”, Tallinn, 13.5;
EU and Trafficking in human beings: which legal framework when victims are EU citizens?, European Union Center, 12-13.3.
In 2014,
The Mobility between the EU and African Countries, AISA (Italian Association for African Studies) – Annual Conference, University of Macerata, 16.9 .
Borraccetti is member of the international research group CONREP, The Comparative Network on Refugee Externalisation Policies, Network Leader: Monash University, Member Legal Expert, Research Team, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna. Furthermore, he was member of ESPON 2020 Programme ECTG, Territorial and Urban Potentials Connected to Migration and Refugee Flows, Member Legal Expert, Research Team, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna (2018-2019); GLOBUS, Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice; Member Legal Expert, Research Team, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna (2017-2020).
In addition, he is scientific coordinator of different teams of the Department of Political and Social Sciences and of the University of Bologna in the following projects: Climate of change, Scientific Coordinator, Team of Dep. Political and Social Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna; Shaping Fair Cities Action, Scientific Coordinator, Research Team, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna; ArtsTogether Project, Scientific Coordinator, Research Team, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita’ di Bologna.
He is member of the “Accademia Diritto e Migrazioni (ADiM), https://www.migrazionieuropadiritto.it/portfolio/adim-gruppo-lavoro-dimensione-esterna/ (since 2018).
He is Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza (Law, Migration and Citizenship) (since 2017); he was also co-founder of europeanmigrationlaw.eu (2013-2017).
He is member of the Faculty Board of the PhD program in European Law, Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’ di Bologna and, since 2009, he is Member of the Faculty of the ERMA - Regional Master Program on Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe, University of Sarajevo, where he teaches EU Fundamental Rights Law and Migration and Human Rights.
Borraccetti was visiting professor at Institut d’Etudes europeennes – Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2011); visiting scholar at European Union Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (2015); visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia.
He was Scientific Coordinator of the e-learning advanced Program (MOOC – Massive Open Online Course) on Asylum and Immigration Detention: the Protection of Fundamental Rights in the European Union, Global Campus of Human Rights (2019).
