Paola Pannia

I am a Post-doc research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence.

After receiving a PhD in “Individual Person and Legal Protection” from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, I have been involved in national and international projects focused on immigration, integration and children’s rights, working as legal consultant for UNHCR, the local municipality of Florence, and the NGO “Defence for children”.

From 2018 to 2021, as a Post-doc of the University of Florence, I was team member of two H2020 researches: “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond” and “SIRIUS: Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets”.

I have been a visiting researcher at the King's College London (2014), City University London (2014), Utrecht University, University College Roosevelt (2020).

My research mostly concerns immigration law, cultural diversity and judicial reasoning from a comparative, socio-legal perspective.