Francesca Cimino

Francesca Cimino is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her work focuses on sociology, migration policy analysis, human rights, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on trafficking, labor exploitation, and multilevel governance frameworks.

• Current research: MORE - Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy (EC-funded Horizon 2020 project)
• Key publication themes: Migration governance, gendered impacts of conflict, identification challenges for trafficked women, and health determinants of exploited migrants
• Collaborators: Fabio Perocco (co-author on RR policy), Paola Degani (gendered migration research)