Staff
Marcello Balbo, Chairholder
Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Master Course ‘Urban Development and Reconstruction’ at Università Iuav di Venezia. Coordinator of Iuav Research Unit within ‘Managing International Urban Migration - Türkiye - Italia - España (MIUM-TIE)’, UE - Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between European Union and Turkey (2008-2009 Project). Director of the Experimental Observatory on International Migration in Urban Areas of Latin America (MIUrb/AL) (2006-2008). Coordinator of the “Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South” (N-Aerus) (2004-2006). He has been consulting for various multilateral and bilateral urban planning and management projects in different countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Eritrea, Somalia and Latin America. He is the author of several scientific articles and books on urbanization and local development in the South, the most recent including ‘La ciudad inclusiva’ (CEPAL, Santiago de Chile,2003) and ‘International Migrants and the City’, UN-Habitat e Università Iuav di Venezia (2005).
e-mail: marcello.balbo@iuav.it
Giovanna Marconi, Researcher
Architect (Iuav, 2001); Master degree in “urban Planning in Developing Countries” (Iuav 2002), summer school degree in “Euro-Mediterranean Migration and Development” (European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, 2007), PhD candidate in “urban planning and public policies”. Since 2004 Giovanna Marconi is contract researcher at the planning department of Università Iuav di Venezia, the focus of her research being South-to-South international migrations. She coordinated MIUrb/AL Observatory (2006-2008) and is working as Junior researcher within MIUM-TIE Project.
She is author of several papers and scientific articles on the urban dimension of international migration, among which:
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Ciudades de tránsito, guardianes del primer mundo: entre desafíos, contradicciones y compromises, Paper presented at the VI REDGOB annual meeting, Lisboa, Portugal, 2008.
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Transit Cities in Transit Countries: steering the consequences of US and EU closed doors policies, Paper presented at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Brighton, UK, 2008
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Città di transito alle porte dell’Europa, AREL la rivista, Quadrimestrale di analisi scientifica e di dibattito, I/2008, Pag. 20-27
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L’immigrazione Internazionale nelle Città dei Paesi in via di Sviluppo, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali N.87, 2006.
e-mail: marconi@iuav.it
Elena Ostanel, Researcher
Undergraduate degree on International Relation and Human Rights, Padua University (2005) and graduate degree on Local and International Cooperation and Development, Bologna University (2008). Her research work dealt with the case study of Via Anelli, Padova analyzing the governance and political framework within which the planning has been pursued.
She has been collaborating in research work ” After Via Anelli, towards a new strategy for social and spatial inclusion for migrants witihni the City” (2007-2008) focuses on the impact of the policy process for the renewal of a marginalized community. At the moment, she is PHD candidate in Regional Planning and Public Policy at Iuav, University of Venice.
Aside from her academic work, she is working as Project Manager in the area of international cooperation and development. She is also working as desk Angola for the italian NGO Doctors with Africa Cuamm.
e-mail: ostanel@iuav.it
Mirko Marzadro, Researcher
Architect (2003) and Ph.D. in “Urban Planning and Public Policies” (2008) both of them at IUAV University of Venice. Since 2002 studies the international migration phenomena in some Italian cities with particular interest to the inclusion practices and policies at social and spatial level. Had developed research at the Instituto de Investigaciòn Gino Germani at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2006-2007) and in the Universidad Mayor de San Simon (Bolivia 2007, 2008 and 2009) where he still participates in a research project about the local impact of the Bolivian migration. From 2007 is part of the team that program and coordinate the activities between the Twin cities of Bergamo (Italia) and Cochabamba (Bolivia).
Recently has published a study about the Bolivian immigration in Italy in:
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Ghiringhelli B. e Marelli S. (2009), Accogliere gli immigrati. Testimonianze di inclusione socio-economica, Carocci, pp. 213-312
e-mail: mirkomarzadro@yahoo.it
Mauro Bellun, Researcher
Mauro Bellun is an Urban Planner, graduated at IUAV University of Venice with a thesis which deals with policies processes developed about urban areas - in the North-East of Italy - distinguished by spatial and social exclusion. In the year 2004/05 he attended the proficiency course “Participated local action and sustainable urban development” at IUAV University of Venice. At present, he is Ph.D. candidate in “Urban Planning and Public Policies” at IUAV University of Venice.
From 2005 to 2007 he designed and managed participatory policies programmes in some towns of North East of Italy. In the year 2008/09 he worked as tutor and supplementary teacher in the “Policies Design Workshop” at Faculty of Territorial Planning of IUAV University of Venice.
Since December 2008 he has been taking part as “research assistant” in the research “Managing International Urban Migration - Türkiye, Italia, España” (MIUM-TIE) at the Department of Planning, of IUAV University of Venice
