Maurizio Ambrosini, PhD, is professor of Sociology of Migration at the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences, and chargé d’enseignement at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). He is also the editor of the journal “Mondi Migranti”, the Director of the Italian Summer School of Sociology of Migrations, and member of the National Council of Economy and Labour (CNEL). He is the author of more than 300 publications in the field of migration studies. His handbook, Sociologia delle migrazioni (2020, 3^rd edition), has been adopted as the textbook in many Italian universities. In English he has published Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare (Palgrave, 2013) and Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe. Actors, Dynamics and Governance (Palgrave, 2018). His articles have been published on several leading international journals.

Full Professor of Constitutional Law, Deputy Rector for Legality, Transparency, Rights and Equality, and scientific coordinator of “Migration and Human Rights” research center at the University of Milan.

She currently teaches Constitutional Law, Constitutional Justice and Women's Rights in the Constitutional State. Her research topics are constitutional justice and the protection of human rights. She coordinates important researches, such as the “Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action” project.  Marilisa D’Amico monographs include “I diritti contesi. Problematiche attuali del costituzionalismo” (FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2016); “Una partià ambigua. Costituzione e diritti delle donne” (Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milan, 2020). As a lawyer, she has defended important human rights cases before the Constitutional Court and supranational courts.

Full Professor of Latin-American Language and Literatures at the University of Turin.  She is a member of the Research Centres “Migrazioni e Diritti Umani” of the University of Milan, CILM (Interuniversity Centre for Migrant Literature ) of the University of Udine,  ISEM (Institute of Mediterranean European History) of the National Research Centre. She coordinates the international network Literatura y derechos humanos, with twenty-one member universities (Latin America, Europe, United States).

Her lines of research focus on the configuration of traumatic imaginaries and reparative strategies in the literature of migration (Italy, Argentina and Mexico) and in the dictatorial and post-dictatorial narratives of the Southern Cone through the testimonial perspective. Among the projects related to these themes and included in volumes are Herencia y transmisión del testimonio en América Latina (Ledizioni, Milan 2017), Cosas, objetos, artefactos. Memorias materiales de la violencia en América Latina (Kamchtaka, Universidad de Valencia, 2020), Integración en la globalización (Penguin Random House, Bogotá 2020).