Eleonora Milazzo

Associate Fellow

e.milazzo@egmontinstitute.be

EU migration and asylum policies, social inclusion, development cooperation, and the policy nexus between migration, climate change, and human security

Biography

NEW BOOK published in August 2023

Refugee Protection & Solidarity

 

This book is available for orders on the OUP website.

 

Eleonora Milazzo is Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute, where she works on research-to-policy engagement. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Egmont Institute and Senior Adviser at the European Policy Centre in Brussels.

Thematically, her work focuses on EU migration and asylum policies, social inclusion, development cooperation, and the policy nexus between migration, climate change, and human security.

Before joining the MPC, Eleonora worked as Joint Research Fellow at the European Policy Centre and the  Egmont Institute in Brussels. Previously, she gained professional experience at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford and Carnegie Europe in Brussels. Before turning to migration and asylum in the EU, she worked on climate change governance and EU-Russia relations at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin and the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2021) and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. As part of her academic work, Eleonora focused on offering a normative account of the ethics of refugee protection in the EU.

She is the author of the book Refugee Protection and Solidarity. The Duties of EU Member States (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Publications