Italian populists’ focus on ‘the will of the people’ has frequently contradicted their ideological priorities towards migration, Fred Paxton and Andrea Pettrachin find. The perception of local attitudes to immigration and issue salience are the determining factors in how populists in local government make their decisions
Postdoctoral Researcher, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin
Andrea supports the scientific coordination of the H2020 research project Whole-COMM.
Previously, he worked as Research Associate at European University Institute’s Migration Policy Centre.
He holds a PhD in Politics, awarded in 2020 by the University of Sheffield, and supervised by Andrew Geddes.
Andrea’s research focuses on the interplay between migration governance, politics and policymaking.
During his PhD, he analysed policymakers’ decision-making processes during the refugee crisis, at local and national levels, applying qualitative methods and social network analysis.
He has published articles on this topic in various international journals.
