Francesco is currently an FWO senior fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), KU Leuven, Belgium, with a project on the role of mixed couples’ associations in the public sphere (in Italy, France and Belgium).
He is a cultural sociologist with a specific interest in the intersection of family, migration and religion. His research is characterized by the use of qualitative methods, in particular of ‘life stories’ and ethnographic observation. His focus on mixed families and, in particular, on Christian-Muslim families, represents a key to examining the wider social changes related to family, Muslim migration and religious pluralism in Europe. In Italy he was also involved in research on second-generations of immigrants and the role of schools in the debate on citizenship.
Previously, from February 2018 until February 2020, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ku Leuven. With the project entitled “ReMix - Christian-Muslim families dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life: Religious reconstruction in religiously mixed marriages”, he investigated the daily life of Christian-Muslim couples in Belgium and France.
Francesco has a PhD in Social Sciences (2013) and Bachelor’s (2005) and Master’s (2008) degrees in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights from the University of Padua. In Padua, at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), he worked as a researcher and taught a course on "The Imaginary of alterity" and “Diversity, Minorities and Cultural conflicts” from 2016 until 2018.
His publications includes a monograph in Italian (Guida Ed. 2016) and several articles in English published in Social Compass, Identities, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Cotemporary Religion, Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2981 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7761-9501 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Cerchiaro |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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KU Leuven
University, Leuven, Belgium
FWO senior fellow -
KU Leuven
University, Leuven, Belgium
Marie Skłodowska Curie Post-doctoral Fellow -
Università degli Studi di Padova
University, Padova, Italy
Post-doctoral fellow -
Radboud University Nijmegen
University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Assistant Professor
Research
The Spiritual Turn and “Feminization”: Turning a Gender Lens on Spirituality
| Authors | Galen Watts, Francesco Cerchiaro, Landon Schnabel |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Sociology of Religion |
From son to father: memory, fatherhood and migration in the life stories of Muslim men married outside their religious group in Belgium and Italy
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | NORMA | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The everyday dimensions of stigma. Morofobia in everyday life of daughters of Maghrebi-Spanish couples in Granada and Barcelona (Spain)
| Authors | Cristina Rodríguez-Reche, Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
Displaying Difference, Displaying Sameness: Mixed Couples’ Reflexivity and the Narrative-Making of the Family
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Muslim masculinities under siege? Masculinity, religion and migration in the life stories of Muslim men married outside their religious group in Belgium and Italy
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Migratory Men | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Above and beyond social boundaries: Everyday life of Mixed Muslim–non-Muslim families in contemporary societies Au-delà des frontières sociales : le vécu des familles mixtes musulmanes-non-musulmanes dans les sociétés contemporaines
| Authors | Catherine Therrien, Josiane LE Gall, Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social Compass | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Why do we have to circumcise our son?’ Meanings behind male circumcision in the life stories of mixed couples with a Muslim partner
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro, Laura Odasso |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Stage fright and romanticism in Il Giro del Mondo
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro, Dick Houtman |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Annals of Tourism Research |
Single, dual, beyond
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Mixed Families in a Transnational World |
Identity loss or identity re-shape? Religious identification among the offspring of ‘Christian–Muslim’ couples
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Religion | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Dissonant masculinities? Migration, emotions and masculinities in marriages between Italian women and Moroccan men living in Italy
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES |
| Citations (WoS) | 11 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘In the name of the children’: mixed couples’ parenting analysed through their naming practices
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Identities |
«Coppia mista? In che senso?»
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Quaderni di Sociologia |
Christian-Muslim couples in the Veneto region, northeastern Italy: Dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro, Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Social Compass | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life , edited by Julie McBrien and Annelies Moors, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023, Islam, Culture and Society , 370 pp., €42.00 (pb), ISBN 978–94–6270–381–0 (pb), ISBN 978–94–6166–542–3 (ePDF, Open Access)
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Religion | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Advancing research in couple studies
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Quality & Quantity | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘When I told my parents I was going to marry a Muslim…’: Social perception and attitudes towards intermarriage in Italy, France and Belgium
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social Compass | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fighting for What? Couples’ Communication, Parenting and Social Activism: The Case Study of a “Christian-Muslim” Families’ Association in Brussels (Belgium)
| Authors | Francesco Cerchiaro |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Religions | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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