Research

Intergenerational Justice and Generational Sovereignty

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I have currently been involved in a postdoctoral project regarding issues of intergenerational justice. In particular, from an egalitarian perspective, my research addresses the issue of the political and representational unbalances between the young and the elderly, and between younger and older cohorts, and therefore the problem that aging societies pose for democratic theory. According to recent data on aging population and on behaviors of political participation, it seems that the younger electors are being increasingly outnumbered by mature and elderly cohorts. The decreasing electoral relevance of the young reduces their power to shape the political agenda. This may exacerbate 'short-termism' and go against the implementation of policies that can target younger generations and future-oriented, long-term policies.

 

Forced Displacement, Smuggling, and Refugee Women

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Since my doctoral studies, I have been working on asylum and refugeehood from a gender perspective. In particular, I have analyzed the experiences of vulnerability and injustice of refugee and asylum-seeking women with a bottom up approach and an intersectional perspective.  There, I argued that normative political theory is contributing to exacerbating and creating injustice by failing to really address the experiences of these women and, therefore, to provide tools to ameliorate their vulnerability and to find remedies for the injustice suffered. Now, I still continue working on these issues, in particular, on intersectionality, vulnerability, injustice, and how the private and public spheres influence displacement for women, while also expanding my interests towards forced displacement in general, the duty of rescue, and smuggling.