First Name
Alessandro
Middle Name/Infix
Last Name
Mazzola
City
Bruxelles
Country
Belgium
Current Employer
CEDEM
Function
Postdoctoral researcher
Discipline
Sociology
Biography
Alessandro Mazzola is a post-doc researcher at CEDEM. He obtained his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Liège with a NON-FRIA scholarship. He also works as a post-doc researcher at the Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Free University of Brussels. He obtained his B.A. in Intercultural Communication Science and M.A. in Show business and Media Sciences at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa. Alessandro’s areas of expertize include the cultural expression and political mobilization of minorities, the integration of newcomers in multicultural societies, the political debate on populism, xenophobia and the extreme-right.
Projects
Alessandro's current research project is entitled “Public opinion, mobilisations and policies concerning asylum seekers and refugees in anti-immigrants times” (PUMOMIG), funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO/BRAIN-be).
Profile URL
http://labos.ulg.ac.be/cedem/en/introduction/staff/alessandro-mazzola/
Keywords
Asylum
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Culture
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Culture and society
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Diversity management
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Ethnicity
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Identity
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Intercultural conflicts
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Migration
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Nationalism
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Refugees
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