Francesca
Rondine

Francesca Rondine graduated cum laude in 2015 in International Studies (LM-52) at the University of Naples "l'Orientale", with a thesis in International protection of migrants on Female Genital Mutilation as a form of persecution. She obtained an LL.M. (Master of Law) in 2017 in International Migration and Refugee Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with a thesis on the administrative detention of migrants in Italian hotspot structures. The thesis has been nominated for the "Hanneke Steenberg" price, a yearly price for the best thesis on migration law written in the Netherlands. In 2017 she obtained a research fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). In 2018 she taught a legal and social sciences research methodology course at the UvA at the PPLE course (Politics, psychology, law and economics). From July 2018 to July 2019 she worked as a case-worker at the Italian Dublin Unit, civil liberties and immigration department of the Italian Ministry of the Interior. She started working at the Dublin Unit again in 2021. From 2019, she is a PhD candidate in international order and human rights at the University la Sapienza of Rome. Her PhD thesis deals with airport transit zones, namely on their role in migration management, focussing on the issues of migrants’ entry on national territory, detention, expulsion and asylum. The thesis takes into account international law, European law and the Italian context. Her main areas of interest are, inter alia, right to asylum, migrants’ detention and right to personal liberty and border management.