Federica Zardo

Dr. Federica Zardo

Scientific Staff - Department for Migration and Globalisation - Center for Migration and Globalisation Research

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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

Bridging Migration and International Relations

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

Completed projects

SERENY

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

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

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

Publications (Extract Research Database)

Tsourdi, L.; Zardo, F. (2025). Migration Governance Through Funding: Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Perspectives. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2024.2407584

Zardo, F. (2025). Following AENEAS’ Route: Unpacking Two Decades ofMigration-Related Measures in EU Development Funds. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2025: https://doi.org/10.

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, 2024: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00389-1

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

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F.; Bijak, J. (2024). Sources of uncertainty in migration scenarios. In: From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios: 23ff, Edward Elgar Publishing, Southampton, UK

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

Czaika, M.; Bohnet, H.; Zardo, F. (2024). Categorical and spatial interlinkages within the European migration policy mix. European Union Politcs, Volume 25(1): 173-196

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.

Rössl, L.; Zardo, F.; Khoury, C. (2024). Blurred vision: potential and challenges of co-creation approaches for migrants’ visibility. In: In/Visibility of Flight: 87-114, De Gruyter, Bielefeld

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

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Lectures (Extract Research Database)

EUTF Legacy

Evaluation of the EU Trust Fund for Africa, 10/12/2024

Migration as a driver of EU-Neighbourhood relations? 

Old and New Leverages in EU-Neighbourhood Relations, 12/09/2024

Following AENEAS' route: unpacking two decades of migration-related measures in EU development funds

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference, 21/06/2024

Round Table: Sliding Doors to the EU: Complementary Pathways and Border (Im)permeability

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference, 20/06/2024

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

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference, 19/06/2024

The Evolution of the Internal-External Nexus in EU Migration Policy: A Relational Analysis of the Role of the EEAS

ECPR Standing Group on the European Union Conference, 19/06/2024

Two decades of EU Funds for migration and asylum

MPC Seminar, 14/05/2024

Challenges in European Migration Politics

Securitizing migration: The new norm? Misconceptions and the allure of simple explanations, 24/11/2023

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

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