Functions

Federica Zardo is Senior Researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation since March 2021.

  • Senior Researcher in the areas of interest at the Department for Migration and Globalisation
  • PhD supervision
  • Coordinator of the research cluster “Migration Policy and Governance”
  • Teaching in the framework of the PhD Programme "Migration Studies"
  • Projects: EasyRights, Quantmig, Sereny

About the person

Federica Zardo is a political scientist working at the intersection between International Relations and Public Policy, with an empirical focus on the EU´s external relations and the EU migration policy. She obtained a PhD in political science and international relations at the University of Turin with a thesis on EU-Tunisia relations which has been published in 2020 as a monograph by Palgrave Macmillan. From 2016 to 2021 she has been working as Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, Centre for European Integration Research, and in March 2021 she joined the Danube University as senior researcher where she is working on the external dimension of the EU migration.

Her specific research interests include:

  • EU decision-making in the field of migration
  • EU-third countries relations on migration
  • Migration policy instruments and their impacts

Projects (Extract Research Database)

Running projects

Analysing change in EU funding for migration and asylum

Duration: 01/02/2023–31/01/2026
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Federica Zardo
Funding: FWF

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Bridging Migration and International Relations

Duration: 01/01/2022–31/12/2024
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika

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Completed projects

SERENY

Duration: 15/10/2021–14/10/2023
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Manfred Zentner
Funding: EU

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Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy

Duration: 01/02/2020–31/07/2023
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Mathias Czaika
Funding: EU

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Enabling immigrants to easily know and exercise their rights

Duration: 01/01/2020–30/11/2022
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Federica Zardo
Funding: EU

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Publications (Extract Research Database)

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F.; Bijak, J. (2024). European migration governance in the context of uncertainty. International Migration, 26 July 2024: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13308

Wolff. S.; Zardo, F. (2024). The role of sub-national actors in coordinative Europeanisation: insights from the digitalisation of asylum services. Comparative European Politics, online: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00389-1

Hadj-Abdou, L., Zardo, F. (2024). Migrant categories and the politics of labelling. In: Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration: https://doi.org/10., Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton, US

Heidrun Bohnet, Federica Zardo (UWK), Clemens Binder, Müge Dalkiran, Cengiz Günay, Daniela Pisoiu, Vedran Dzihic and Sophie Reichelt (oiip) (2024). The Impact of Migration on International Relations: Power Relations, Security, and Migration Diplomacy Reexamined.

Zardo, F.; Tservenis, D. R. (2024). Two decades of EU funds for migration and asylum : the MigFund dataset. EUI Working Paper, 32: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77186

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F. (2023). Categorical and spatial interlinkages within the European migration policy mix. European Union Politics, Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165231209941

Zardo, F.; Rössl, L.; Khoury, C. (2023). Adapting to Crisis: The Governance of Public Services for Migrants and Refugees during COVID-19 in Four European Cities. social sciences, 2023, 12(4): 213 ff.

Zardo, F. (2023). Map traps: the spatiality of EU migration policy instruments in the Southern Neighbourhood. In: Di Peri,R.; Meier, D. (eds.), Mediterranean in dis/order. Space, Power and Politics: Chapter 5, Michigan University Press, Michigan

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F.; Bijak, J. (2023). European migration governance in the context of uncertainty.

Tsourdi, E.; Zardo, F.; Sayed N. (2023). Funding the EU’s external migration policy: ‘Same old’ or potential for sustainable collaboration?

Deters, H.; Zardo F. (2022). The european commission in Covid-19 vaccine cooperation: leadership vs coronationalism? Journal of European Public Policy, online: 1-21

Seeberg, P.; Zardo F. (2022). From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU-Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 6/48: 1345-1362

Zardo, F. (2022). The EU Trust Fund for Africa: Geopolitical space making through migration policy instruments. Geopolitics, 27/2: 584-603

Zardo, F.; Loschi, Ch. (2022). EU-Algeria (non) cooperation on migration: A tale of two fortresses. EU-Algeria (non) cooperation on migration: A tale of two fortresses, 27/2: 148-169

Zardo, F.; Wolff S. (2022). Decentering the Study of Migration Governance in the Mediterranean. Geopolitcs, 27: 678-702

Zardo, F. (2022). Voluntary implementation – European Neighbourhood Policy. In: Graziano, P. R.; Tosun J., Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy: 474-482, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham

Zardo, F.; Khoury, C.; Rössl, L. (2022). Institutional Sustainability Assessment. online

Zardo, F.; Rössl, L.; Khoury, Ch. (2022). Coping with the pandemic: the governance of public service provision for migrants in four European cities. Proceedings of the easyRights Final Conference

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F. (2021). Disentangling the European Migration Policy-Mix Since 1990. QuantMig Project Report D5.5.

Lectures (Extract Research Database)

The Digital turn to public service provision to migrants and asylum seekers during Covid-19: a coordinative Europeanisation approach to civic humanitarian duty

Online Seminar Series of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, 16/06/2023

Complementarity and trade-offs in the European migration policy mix

European Union in International Affairs, 03/05/2023

External Financial Governance: Solidarity and Externalisation of Migration Control through EU Funding

External Financial Governance: Solidarity and Externalisation of Migration Control through EU Funding, 02/02/2023

From policy-mixes to configurations: Disentangling interlinkages in European migration-relevant policies

Seventh Conference on Migration Research in Austria, 26/09/2022

European migration governance in the context of uncertainty

IMISCOE, 30/06/2022

Disentangling the European migration policy-mix

ISA, Nashville, 30/03/2022

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