To mark the publication of her new book, The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalisation Era, Professor Leila Simona Talani will discuss migration and the future for policy-makers across the continent.

Prof Talani will be joined for the occasion by special guest, Hon. Emanuela Rossini, vice president of the European Union Affairs Commission of the Italian Parliament.

The future of Europe: What migratory policy? will takes place in the River Room, at King’s College London, on 16 March, from 18.00, and will be followed by a reception.

SPEAKER

Emanuela Rossini, Member of Parliament

Emanuela Rossini is an Italian politician, elected in 2018 to the Italian Parliament for the Trentino Alto Adige Region. In the parliament she has mainly worked on: European integration process, Italian regionalism and autonomies, and youth policies. As vice-president of the XIV Commission UE policies she has followed the entire process of creation and implementation of the Next GenerationEU Plan and participate to the network of relations with the other European national parliaments on current issues. She is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at Milan University, with a past broad working experience in policy making and international networking.

Professor Leila Simona Talani

Leila Simona Talani has been Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of European and International Studies since 2014. She became editor of the Palgrave series on the Politics of Migration and Citizenship in 2020.

In 2017 she was awarded a visiting Professorship at the Kennedy School of Government of the University of Harvard. She was also appointed Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Economy by the European Commission in 2012.

She was previously at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and in the department of European studies of the University of Bath. From November 2000 until September 2001, she held the position of Associate Expert for the United Nations Regional Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention based in Cairo working on irregular migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa to EU countries. In the academic year 1999-2000 she taught 'The political Economy of European Integration' at the European Institute of the London School of Economics where she had previously held a research and teaching fellowship for the academic year 1998-1999.

Leila was awarded a PhD with distinction at the European University Institute of Florence in 1998.

She is the author, among other titles, of: The political Economy of Italy in the Euro (Palgrave 2017), The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration (Edward Elgar, 2014-2017); The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy(Palgrave, 2014), Dirty Cities: towards a political economy of shadow dynamics in global cities (Palgrave, 2013), European Political Economy (Ashgate: 2013), Globalization, Migration and the future of Europe(Routledge 2011), and From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris, 2010).