Francesca Crivellaro

Francesca Crivellaro is currently Adjunct Professor at the Department of Education Studies. She is a Cultural Anthropologist and she achieved the PhD in "International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies" in 2011 with a thesis on microcredit as astrategy for migrant womens' social inclusion. Since 2007, she has been collaborating with different national and international research groups and she has particpated in different European funded projects (e.g. E+ project "EuMentorSTEM.Creation of a EUropean e-platform of MENTORing and coaching for promoting migrant women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics"; the H2020 project "PLOTINA. Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training"; the H2020 project “AGRUMIG. Leaving something behind-Migration Governance and Agricultural and Rural Change in ‘home’) communities”).

Main research interests: microcredit and migrant women; new poverties and social exclusion in contemporary Italy; gender, parenting and migration; ethnic and gender discriminations in the labour market; highly qualified migrant women