Matteo Gianni

Matteo Gianni is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva. He has taught and done research in several universities, as Rutgers University, University of Toronto, Concordia University in Montréal, the Université de Fribourg and the Università della Svizzera Italiana.

His field of expertise is contemporary political theory, in particular theory of citizenship, of integration  and of multiculturalism. Besides his theoretical work, he has led or participated to several research projects financed by the Swiss Nation Science Foundation or the European Commission, on topics as refugees policy in Switzerland, the integration of the Muslim population in Switzerland and Europe. He is a member of the National Competence Center in Research (NCCR) On the move, based at the University of Neuchâtel, which is devoted to the Migration – Mobility nexus. In this framework, he is leading the project  Citizenship and Immigration: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Swiss Philosophy of Integration. Among his most recent work, see (with Marco Giugni and Noémi Michel) Musulmans en Suisse. Profils et intégration. Lausanne : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, collection Le savoir suisse, 2015; "Muslims' integration as a way to defuse the Muslim Question ? Insights from the Swiss case", Critical Research on Religion, 2016; and (with Elisa Banfi and Marco Giugni) "Religious Minorities and Secularism: An Alternative View of the Impact of Religion on the Political Values of Muslims in Europe", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2016.