Phd in STORIA E CULTURE DELL'EUROPA

Research: Reception and integration policies in Italy: the case of Italian refugees from Libya

Mario Savina holds a three-year degree in Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at the University of Bologna. Subsequently, he obtained a master's degree in Development Sciences and International Cooperation at the Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis entitled "Reception and integration practices of unaccompanied foreign minors: comparative aspects". In both experiences, Savina spent a period of study abroad: during the first degree course he was a guest at the Universitat de Lleida; the second experience saw him carry out an internship at the Universidad de Barcelona. In 2018 he obtained a second level Master's degree in Geopolitics and Global Security, again at Sapienza, with the thesis "The management of immigration as a form of territorialisation: the EU and the Mediterranean between securitisation and externalization of borders". In 2021/22 he completed another second level Master in Politics and Management in the Middle East and North Africa at LUISS in Rome with the thesis "The Constitution and the role of Islam in Libya from Independence to the fall of Gaddafi: origin and prospects". The latter work was published in the scientific journal (A) Stato, Chiese e Pluralismo Confessionale. Since 2022 he is a PhD candidate in History and Cultures of Europe at the Sapienza University of Rome where he is working on the project "Reception and integration policies in Italy: the case of Italian refugees from Libya". The present research project aims to analyze the reception, protection and integration processes activated on the Italian territory towards Italian refugees who returned to the country after the confiscation and expulsion decrees issued by Moammar Gaddafi in 1970, trying to offer a vision closely close to the reality of the situation experienced by the community of refugees at risk of social exclusion, through a theoretical-practical analysis of the interventions that were carried out towards them and the relative problems and difficulties encountered over the years.