Allison Petrozziello
Assistant Professor Faculty of Arts Department of Politics and Public Administration Toronto, Ontario apetrozziello@torontomu.ca
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Allison Petrozziello is Assistant Professor of Global Migration & Inequality at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Petrozziello is a global governance scholar specialized in gender and human-rights based approaches to the governance of migration and citizenship. Her academic work builds on over...
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Allison Petrozziello is Assistant Professor of Global Migration & Inequality at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Petrozziello is a global governance scholar specialized in gender and human-rights based approaches to the governance of migration and citizenship. Her academic work builds on over 15 years of experience in international research, teaching, and policy advocacy work, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, with stakeholders ranging from grassroots organizations to policymakers to the United Nations. She has consulted for UN Women, the International Labour Organization (ILO), Inter-American Development Bank, and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), among others. At TMU, she teaches courses in comparative and global politics for undergraduate programs in the Department of Politics and Public Administration as well as the PhD program in Policy Studies.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Petrozziello’s research interests revolve around gender, migration, international development, human rights, and statelessness. She is committed to connecting research with policy practice to advance human and labour rights of the world’s most marginalized and to address governance concerns around identity documentation, irregular migration, (non)citizenship, and statelessness. Her work has informed United Nations policy recommendations by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Special Rapporteur on violence against women; UNICEF; UN Committees on the Rights of the Child, Migrant Workers, Racial Discrimination; and CEDAW; and the ILO. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation Birth Registration as Bordering Practice: A Feminist Analysis of Migration Governance and the Production of Statelessness
. Dr. Petrozziello’s research, as featured on TMU’s Borders & Belonging podcast, examines global patterns of intersecting forms of social inequality which can make children of migrants and refugees stateless. Her academic work has been published in English and Spanish in journals, such as International Migration, Gender & Development, The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Migración y Desarrollo, Cultural Dynamics, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research.
Dr. Petrozziello is affiliated with the Bridging Divides research program on Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century (Citizenship and Participation theme); where she leads the project Birthing Canadian Citizens: Migrant Mothers’ Experiences Accessing Documentation and Citizenship for Children born in Canada and Abroad; the Gender+Migration Hub
at Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre; and the Caribbean Migrants Observatory (OBMICA, Dominican Republic). She holds a PhD in Global Governance from Wilfrid Laurier University/Balsillie School of International Affairs, an MA in International Development & Social Change from Clark University, and a BA in Women’s Studies from Smith College.
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An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Petrozziello’s research interests revolve around gender, migration, international development, human rights, and statelessness. She is committed to connecting research with policy practice to advance human and labour rights of the world’s most marginalized and to address governance concerns around identity documentation, irregular migration, (non)citizenship, and statelessness. Her work has informed United Nations policy recommendations by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Special Rapporteur on violence against women; UNICEF; UN Committees on the Rights of the Child, Migrant Workers, Racial Discrimination; and CEDAW; and the ILO. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation Birth Registration as Bordering Practice: A Feminist Analysis of Migration Governance and the Production of Statelessness
. Dr. Petrozziello’s research, as featured on TMU’s Borders & Belonging podcast, examines global patterns of intersecting forms of social inequality which can make children of migrants and refugees stateless. Her academic work has been published in English and Spanish in journals, such as International Migration, Gender & Development, The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Migración y Desarrollo, Cultural Dynamics, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research.
Dr. Petrozziello is affiliated with the Bridging Divides research program on Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century (Citizenship and Participation theme); where she leads the project Birthing Canadian Citizens: Migrant Mothers’ Experiences Accessing Documentation and Citizenship for Children born in Canada and Abroad; the Gender+Migration Hub
at Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre; and the Caribbean Migrants Observatory (OBMICA, Dominican Republic). She holds a PhD in Global Governance from Wilfrid Laurier University/Balsillie School of International Affairs, an MA in International Development & Social Change from Clark University, and a BA in Women’s Studies from Smith College.
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