Dr Francesca Scrinzi

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 4090
email: Francesca.Scrinzi@glasgow.ac.uk

College of Social Sciences, School of Social & Political Sciences, R1007 Level 10, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow, G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562

Biography

Since 2000, I have researched the issues of gender, racism and migrant labour, more specifically the intersections between the social divisions of care work, the restructuring of welfare state systems and international migration in comparative perspective in European societies. Care as a resource is unequally distributed in the world: on the one hand, middle-class women in affluent countries increasingly rely on migrant and racialised women to 'buy out' domestic and care work, in societies characterised by durable inequalities in the sexual division of labour and the restructuring of public care provision.

My ethnographic comparative study of migrant women's and men's employment in care jobs in France and Italy 13 (Genre, migrations et emplois domestiques en France et en Italie. Construction de la non qualification et de l’altérité ethnique (Gender, Migration and Domestic Labour in France and Italy. The Social Construction of Skill and Otherness), Éditions Pétra, Paris, 2013) addressed the international division of care work, by bringing together the restructuring of Welfare states and of the labour market, international migration and immigration policies, the changing patterns of the sexual division of work and those of women's employment in contemporary European societies. One original contribution of the book is to compare different forms of organisation of work relations, by examining the traditional household-based domestic service relationship between a private employer and an employee (in Italy) and care-givers working in non-profit associations providing home-based services (in France). Indeed, in recent years scholars have pointed to the necessity of incorporating into the analysis of the 'international care chains' other agents of social reproduction besides the households, such as the market, the non-profit sector, the Welfare State and immigration policies. More specifically, the book explores the interplay of social relations of gender, class and racism in training and recruitment practices, where ideas of 'cultural difference' and 'femininity' are embedded and negotiated. The cross-national comparative perspective sheds light on the different ways in which Otherness and 'skill' are socially constructed in two very different national context, characterised by specific care and gender regimes, migratory patterns, public policies, models of integration and forms of organisation of care work.

My research on migrant domestic labour and the international division of care work has responded to recent scholarly debates: researchers have expressed reservations about the narrow focus of existing studies. Most of these concerned only female labour and female employers within domestic service, and examined the traditional household-based domestic service while neglecting actors, institutions and settings of care work within the public sphere. My work successfully broke with these restrictions so as to broaden our definitions of the international division of care by including the issues of men’s work and masculinities (the monographic book Migrant Men, Masculinities and Domestic Labour. Men of the Home, co-authored with Ester Gallo, forthcoming in 2016 at Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), and, further, by addressing migrants working as cleaners and care-givers within institutional and bureaucratised settings.

More recently, but building on this earlier research, I have started to investigate migrant women's collective mobilisations and how feminist politics deals with the challenge of migration, with particular regard to the issue of domestic labour. Very few studies examine the impact of migration on feminist practices and the role of migrant activists in Italy. These studies tend to downplay the organisation of domestic work and its impact on migrant women's political participation. Yet my research findings suggest that the organisation of domestic work heavily affects the political relationship between native and migrant women in Italy (see Grants).

Since 2010 I have worked on women’s activism and gender relations in the Italian anti-immigration party the Northern league. My current research focuses on the Northern League party (NL) in Italy and the National Front party (NF) in France (ERC – European Research Council, Starting Grant, 'Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties. A comparative study of women’s and men’s participation in the Northern League (Italy) and the National Front (France)’ 2012-2014).

As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Global Governance Programme), I am currently researching Evangelical migrants in Southern Europe, within the project funded by the European Commission titled MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY. Migration, Religion and Work in Comparative Perspective: Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe (2015-2017).

I will be British Academy Mid-Career fellow for the period September 2018-August 2019 (project title: Gender and the populist radical right in Europe). Through this project I will further develop my research on gender and anti-immigration activism in Europe, and organise a series of knowledge transfer activities involving antiracist and feminist NGOs.

Research interests

  • Gendered migration, migrant women
  • Racism, ethnicity and gender
  • Migration and racism in contemporary France and Italy
  • Women and work; the sexual division of labour
  • Migrant domestic workers and the international division of care work
  • Gender relations and anti-immigration activism in contemporary Europe
  • Migrant and native women’s activism in contemporary Italy
  • Migration and religion, migrant Christianity
  • Evangelical migrants in Southern Europe

 

Current research project

 

British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 'Gender and the populist radical right in Europe'

In Europe, gender equality issues are a battlefield for anti-immigration actors. Populist radical right political parties champion traditional models of the family while, at the same time, they paradoxically frame their anti-immigration agenda as a struggle for gender equality, depicting Islam as incompatible with women’s rights. At a time of highly polarised public debate on immigration, those supporting gender equality are under pressure and torn between cultural relativism and cultural fundamentalism.
This fellowship will produce a monograph and organise numerous events to engage different British and international publics on this topical issue. The fellowship will expose the paradoxical and under-studied gendered strategies of these parties and to promote scholarly and public debates on the challenges which their mobilisation of gender equality issues raises for feminists.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 52.

2024

Meret, Susi and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2024) The far-right, anti-gender politics and neoliberal globalization. In: Siim, Birte and Stoltz, Pauline (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 403-423. ISBN 9783031571435 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57144-2_18)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2024) The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right. Series: Gender and Comparative Politics. Routledge. ISBN 9781138081512 (In Press)

2023

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) France. In: McNeil-Willson, Richard and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9781003267102 (doi: 10.4324/9781003267102-9)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) Italy. In: McNeil-Willson, Richard and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9781003267102 (doi: 10.4324/9781003267102-16)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) Globalisation, masculinities and the domestic space: Men employing migrant reproductive workers in Italy. In: Stahl, Garth and Zhao, Yang (eds.) Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities. Series: Routledge research in gender and society. Routledge. ISBN 9781003353232 (doi: 10.4324/9781003353232-13)

2022

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2022) Why do women join radical-Right parties? [Website]

2021

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (Eds.) (2021) Ethnographies of Religion, Gender and Migration. Series: Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa. Società Editrice il Mulino. ISBN 9788815296429

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) Gendering the migration-religion nexus. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2021(3), pp. 387-410. (doi: 10.3240/102935)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) The ‘co-optation’ of feminism by populist radical right parties. What is it? How can we counter it? [Website]

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) Estrema destra populista e «nazional-femminista». Il Mulino, 2021(3), pp. 75-84. (doi: 10.1402/101753)

2020

McNeil-Willson, Richard, Gerrand, Vivian, Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2020) What will 2020 bring? Finding our way in a more polarised world. [Website]

2019

McNeil-Willson, Richard, Gerrand, Vivian, Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2019) Polarisation, Violent Extremism and Resilience in Europe Today : an Analytical Framework. Technical Report. BRaVE Project.

Corsi, Marcella and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Fermiamo la retorica 'nazional-femminista' = Stop the 'national-feminist' rhetoric. InGenere, 30 Apr.

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour: Asian porters in Rome. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(11), pp. 1632-1653. (doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1586653)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Beyond ‘women’s work’. Gender, ethnicity and the management of paid care work in non-profit domiciliary services in Italy. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 17(4), pp. 441-456. (doi: 10.1080/15562948.2018.1538472)

2018

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) ‘Chiese integrate’, dialogo interreligioso e laicità. Confronti, 2018(11), pp. 29-31.

Marchetti, Sabrina and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) Bureaucratized management of paid care-work. InGenere, 19 Jul.

Farris, Sara R. and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) ‘Subaltern victims’ or ‘useful resources’? Migrant women in the Lega Nord ideology and politics. In: Mulholland, Jon, Montagna, Nicola and Sanders-McDonagh, Erin (eds.) Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 241-257. ISBN 9783319766980 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76699-7_13)

2017

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Religione, genere e lavoro di cura. Il caso degli uomini migranti in Italia. Religioni e Societa, 32(88), pp. 74-85. (doi: 10.19272/201731302006)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord. West European Politics, 40(4), pp. 869-886. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1287447)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Gender and women in the Front National discourse and policy: from ‘mothers of the nation’ to ‘working mothers’? New Formations, 91, (doi: 10.398/NEWF:91.05.2017)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) A ‘new’ national front? Gender, religion, secularism and the French populist radical right. In: Köttig, Michaela, Bitzan, Renate and Petö, Andrea (eds.) Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-140. ISBN 9783319435329 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6_9)

2016

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Latin American Migration, Evangelical Christianity and Gender in Italy. Working Paper. European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Outsourcing elderly care to migrant workers: the impact of gender and class on the experience of male employers. Sociology, 50(2), pp. 366-382. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515573688)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Männer und Männlichkeiten in der internationalen Teilung reproduktiver Arbeit. In: Meuser, Michael and Lengersdorf, Diana (eds.) Männlichkeiten und der Strukturwandel von Erwerbsarbeit in globalisierten Gesellschaften : Diagnosen und Perspektiven. Beltz Juventa: Weinheim, pp. 112-136. ISBN 9783779943907

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour: Men of the Home. Series: Migration, diasporas and citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9781137379771

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Care. In: Rennes, Juliette (ed.) Encyclopédie Critique du Genre : Corps, Sexualité, Rapports Sociaux. La Découverte: Paris, pp. 106-115. ISBN 9782707190482

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) I latinoamericani evangelici e il lavoro di cura. In: Ferrari, Daniele (ed.) Le minoranze religiose tra passato e futuro. Series: Biblioteca universitaria Claudiana (4). Editrice Claudiana: Torino, pp. 63-78. ISBN 9788868981181

2015

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2015) Righteous patriots, corrupted élites, undeserving poors. The construction of multiple social boundaries in the National Front. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2015(1), pp. 55-74. (doi: 10.3240/79640)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2015) A relational approach to the study of gender in radical right populism. In: Magaraggia, S. and Vingelli, G. (eds.) Genere e partecipazione politica. Franco Angeli: Milan, pp. 82-94. ISBN 9788891712318

2014

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Caring for the Nation: Men and Women Activists in Radical Right Populist Parties 2012-2014. Final Research Report to European Research Council. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties. A Comparative Study of Women’s and Men’s Participation in the Northern League (Italy) and The National Front (France). In-Progress Preliminary Analysis Report. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Marchetti, Sabrina and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Gendered and Racialised Constructions of Work in Bureaucratised Care Services in Italy. Working Paper. European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Rapporti di genere e militanza nella Lega nord: donne forti in un partito virile. In: Curcio, A. and Perini, L. (eds.) Attraverso la Lega: La Costruzione del Consenso sul Territorio e le Trasformazioni della Società Italiana. Il Mulino and University of Padova, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies: Bologna, Italy, pp. 163-184. ISBN 9788815251213

2013

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2013) Genre, Migrations et Emplois Domestiques en France et en Italie. Construction de la Non Qualification et de L’altérité Ethnique. Editions Pétra: Paris, France. ISBN 9782847430813

2012

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2012) Gendering anti-immigration politics in Europe. Queries, 1(7), pp. 79-90.

2011

Marchetti, S. and Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) The gendered construction of a 'caring otherness': Migrant women working in the 'care industry' in Italy and the Netherlands. In: Caponio, T., Giordano, F. and Ricaldone, L. (eds.) World Wide Women: Globalizzazione, Generi, Linguaggio. CIRSDE (Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche e Studi delle Donne), University of Turin: Torino, Italy, pp. 29-38. ISBN 9788890555633

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) Gender, migration and the ambiguous enterprise of professionalizing domestic service: the case of vocational training for the unemployed in France. Feminist Review, 98, pp. 153-172. (doi: 10.1057/fr.2011.6)

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) Migration, service domestique et rapports sociaux de sexe: qu'en est-il des hommes dans la division internationale du care? In: Palidda, S. (ed.) Migrations Critiques: Repenser les Migrations Comme Mobilités Humaines en Méditerranée. Khartala: Paris, France, pp. 146-152. ISBN 9782811104054

2010

Sati, Raffaella and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Men in a Woman’s Job, Male Domestic Workers, International Migration and the Globalization of Care [Guest Editors]. Men and Masculinities, 13(1),

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Masculinities and the international division of care: migrant male domestic workers in Italy and France. Men and Masculinities, 13(1), pp. 44-64. (doi: 10.1177/1097184X10382880)

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Migrazioni, servizio domestico e rapporti di genere: il ruolo degli uomini nella divisione internazionale del lavoro di cura. In: Palidda, S. (ed.) Il «discorso» ambiguo sulle migrazioni. Mesogea: Messina, pp. 115-130.

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Sarti, R. (2010) Introduction to the special issue: Men in a woman's job: Male domestic workers, international migration and the globalization of care. Men and Masculinities, 13(1), pp. 4-15. (doi: 10.1177/1097184X10382878)

2009

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2009) "Cleaning and ironing… With a smile": Migrant workers in the care industry in France. Journal of Workplace Rights, 14(3), pp. 271-292. (doi: 10.2190/WR.14.3.b)

2008

Falquet, J., Rabaud, A., Freedman, J. and Scrinzi, F. (2008) Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation: Un Etat des Problématiques. Series: Collection des cahiers du CEDREF: Série colloques et travaux. Publications Diderot: Paris, France. ISBN 9782744201417

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2008) Migrations and the restructuring of Welfare state in Italy. Change and continuity in the Italian domestic work sector. In: Lutz, H. (ed.) Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme. Series: Studies in migration and diaspora. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 29-42. ISBN 9780754647904

Scrinzi, F. (2008) Quelques notions pour penser les rapports sociaux de race, classe et sexe. In: Falquet, J., Rabaud, A., Reedman, J. and Scrinzi, F. (eds.) Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation. Un Etat des Problématiques. Series: Collection des cahiers du CEDREF. Série colloques et travaux. Publications Diderot: Paris, France, pp. 80-100. ISBN 9782744201417

2006

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2006) Interni domestici. Lavorare 'fissa' come colf e assistente famigliare. Conflitti globali, 4, pp. 168-178.

2005

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2005) Les hommes de mÚnage, ou comment aborder la fÚminisation des migrations en interviewant des hommes. Migrations Société. La Revue du CIEMI (Centre d'Information et d'études sur les Migrations Internationales)., 17(99-100), pp. 229-240.

2004

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2004) Professionals of Tradition. Migrant Women in the Domestic Work SectorProfessioniste della tradizione. Le donne migranti nel mercato del lavoro domestico. Polis, 18(1), pp. 107-136.

2003

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2003) Les employees de maison migrantes en Italie: Ethnicisation et controle dans le circuit catholique a Genes (French). Canadian Woman Studies, 22(40271), pp. 182-187.

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2003) Ma culture dans laquelle elle travaille'. Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France. Cahiers du Cedref 10, 'Genre, travail et migrations en Europe, 10, pp. 137-162.

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Articles

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) Gendering the migration-religion nexus. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2021(3), pp. 387-410. (doi: 10.3240/102935)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) Estrema destra populista e «nazional-femminista». Il Mulino, 2021(3), pp. 75-84. (doi: 10.1402/101753)

Corsi, Marcella and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Fermiamo la retorica 'nazional-femminista' = Stop the 'national-feminist' rhetoric. InGenere, 30 Apr.

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour: Asian porters in Rome. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(11), pp. 1632-1653. (doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1586653)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2019) Beyond ‘women’s work’. Gender, ethnicity and the management of paid care work in non-profit domiciliary services in Italy. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 17(4), pp. 441-456. (doi: 10.1080/15562948.2018.1538472)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) ‘Chiese integrate’, dialogo interreligioso e laicità. Confronti, 2018(11), pp. 29-31.

Marchetti, Sabrina and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) Bureaucratized management of paid care-work. InGenere, 19 Jul.

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Religione, genere e lavoro di cura. Il caso degli uomini migranti in Italia. Religioni e Societa, 32(88), pp. 74-85. (doi: 10.19272/201731302006)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord. West European Politics, 40(4), pp. 869-886. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1287447)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) Gender and women in the Front National discourse and policy: from ‘mothers of the nation’ to ‘working mothers’? New Formations, 91, (doi: 10.398/NEWF:91.05.2017)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Outsourcing elderly care to migrant workers: the impact of gender and class on the experience of male employers. Sociology, 50(2), pp. 366-382. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515573688)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2015) Righteous patriots, corrupted élites, undeserving poors. The construction of multiple social boundaries in the National Front. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, 2015(1), pp. 55-74. (doi: 10.3240/79640)

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2012) Gendering anti-immigration politics in Europe. Queries, 1(7), pp. 79-90.

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) Gender, migration and the ambiguous enterprise of professionalizing domestic service: the case of vocational training for the unemployed in France. Feminist Review, 98, pp. 153-172. (doi: 10.1057/fr.2011.6)

Sati, Raffaella and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Men in a Woman’s Job, Male Domestic Workers, International Migration and the Globalization of Care [Guest Editors]. Men and Masculinities, 13(1),

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Masculinities and the international division of care: migrant male domestic workers in Italy and France. Men and Masculinities, 13(1), pp. 44-64. (doi: 10.1177/1097184X10382880)

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Sarti, R. (2010) Introduction to the special issue: Men in a woman's job: Male domestic workers, international migration and the globalization of care. Men and Masculinities, 13(1), pp. 4-15. (doi: 10.1177/1097184X10382878)

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2009) "Cleaning and ironing… With a smile": Migrant workers in the care industry in France. Journal of Workplace Rights, 14(3), pp. 271-292. (doi: 10.2190/WR.14.3.b)

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2006) Interni domestici. Lavorare 'fissa' come colf e assistente famigliare. Conflitti globali, 4, pp. 168-178.

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2005) Les hommes de mÚnage, ou comment aborder la fÚminisation des migrations en interviewant des hommes. Migrations Société. La Revue du CIEMI (Centre d'Information et d'études sur les Migrations Internationales)., 17(99-100), pp. 229-240.

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2004) Professionals of Tradition. Migrant Women in the Domestic Work SectorProfessioniste della tradizione. Le donne migranti nel mercato del lavoro domestico. Polis, 18(1), pp. 107-136.

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2003) Les employees de maison migrantes en Italie: Ethnicisation et controle dans le circuit catholique a Genes (French). Canadian Woman Studies, 22(40271), pp. 182-187.

Scrinzi, F ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2003) Ma culture dans laquelle elle travaille'. Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France. Cahiers du Cedref 10, 'Genre, travail et migrations en Europe, 10, pp. 137-162.

Books

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2024) The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right. Series: Gender and Comparative Politics. Routledge. ISBN 9781138081512 (In Press)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour: Men of the Home. Series: Migration, diasporas and citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hampshire. ISBN 9781137379771

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2013) Genre, Migrations et Emplois Domestiques en France et en Italie. Construction de la Non Qualification et de L’altérité Ethnique. Editions Pétra: Paris, France. ISBN 9782847430813

Falquet, J., Rabaud, A., Freedman, J. and Scrinzi, F. (2008) Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation: Un Etat des Problématiques. Series: Collection des cahiers du CEDREF: Série colloques et travaux. Publications Diderot: Paris, France. ISBN 9782744201417

Book Sections

Meret, Susi and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2024) The far-right, anti-gender politics and neoliberal globalization. In: Siim, Birte and Stoltz, Pauline (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 403-423. ISBN 9783031571435 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57144-2_18)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) France. In: McNeil-Willson, Richard and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9781003267102 (doi: 10.4324/9781003267102-9)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) Italy. In: McNeil-Willson, Richard and Triandafyllidou, Anna (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9781003267102 (doi: 10.4324/9781003267102-16)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2023) Globalisation, masculinities and the domestic space: Men employing migrant reproductive workers in Italy. In: Stahl, Garth and Zhao, Yang (eds.) Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities. Series: Routledge research in gender and society. Routledge. ISBN 9781003353232 (doi: 10.4324/9781003353232-13)

Farris, Sara R. and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2018) ‘Subaltern victims’ or ‘useful resources’? Migrant women in the Lega Nord ideology and politics. In: Mulholland, Jon, Montagna, Nicola and Sanders-McDonagh, Erin (eds.) Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 241-257. ISBN 9783319766980 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76699-7_13)

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2017) A ‘new’ national front? Gender, religion, secularism and the French populist radical right. In: Köttig, Michaela, Bitzan, Renate and Petö, Andrea (eds.) Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-140. ISBN 9783319435329 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43533-6_9)

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Männer und Männlichkeiten in der internationalen Teilung reproduktiver Arbeit. In: Meuser, Michael and Lengersdorf, Diana (eds.) Männlichkeiten und der Strukturwandel von Erwerbsarbeit in globalisierten Gesellschaften : Diagnosen und Perspektiven. Beltz Juventa: Weinheim, pp. 112-136. ISBN 9783779943907

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Care. In: Rennes, Juliette (ed.) Encyclopédie Critique du Genre : Corps, Sexualité, Rapports Sociaux. La Découverte: Paris, pp. 106-115. ISBN 9782707190482

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) I latinoamericani evangelici e il lavoro di cura. In: Ferrari, Daniele (ed.) Le minoranze religiose tra passato e futuro. Series: Biblioteca universitaria Claudiana (4). Editrice Claudiana: Torino, pp. 63-78. ISBN 9788868981181

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2015) A relational approach to the study of gender in radical right populism. In: Magaraggia, S. and Vingelli, G. (eds.) Genere e partecipazione politica. Franco Angeli: Milan, pp. 82-94. ISBN 9788891712318

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Rapporti di genere e militanza nella Lega nord: donne forti in un partito virile. In: Curcio, A. and Perini, L. (eds.) Attraverso la Lega: La Costruzione del Consenso sul Territorio e le Trasformazioni della Società Italiana. Il Mulino and University of Padova, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies: Bologna, Italy, pp. 163-184. ISBN 9788815251213

Marchetti, S. and Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) The gendered construction of a 'caring otherness': Migrant women working in the 'care industry' in Italy and the Netherlands. In: Caponio, T., Giordano, F. and Ricaldone, L. (eds.) World Wide Women: Globalizzazione, Generi, Linguaggio. CIRSDE (Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche e Studi delle Donne), University of Turin: Torino, Italy, pp. 29-38. ISBN 9788890555633

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2011) Migration, service domestique et rapports sociaux de sexe: qu'en est-il des hommes dans la division internationale du care? In: Palidda, S. (ed.) Migrations Critiques: Repenser les Migrations Comme Mobilités Humaines en Méditerranée. Khartala: Paris, France, pp. 146-152. ISBN 9782811104054

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2010) Migrazioni, servizio domestico e rapporti di genere: il ruolo degli uomini nella divisione internazionale del lavoro di cura. In: Palidda, S. (ed.) Il «discorso» ambiguo sulle migrazioni. Mesogea: Messina, pp. 115-130.

Scrinzi, F. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2008) Migrations and the restructuring of Welfare state in Italy. Change and continuity in the Italian domestic work sector. In: Lutz, H. (ed.) Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme. Series: Studies in migration and diaspora. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 29-42. ISBN 9780754647904

Scrinzi, F. (2008) Quelques notions pour penser les rapports sociaux de race, classe et sexe. In: Falquet, J., Rabaud, A., Reedman, J. and Scrinzi, F. (eds.) Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation. Un Etat des Problématiques. Series: Collection des cahiers du CEDREF. Série colloques et travaux. Publications Diderot: Paris, France, pp. 80-100. ISBN 9782744201417

Edited Books

Gallo, Ester and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (Eds.) (2021) Ethnographies of Religion, Gender and Migration. Series: Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa. Società Editrice il Mulino. ISBN 9788815296429

Research Reports or Papers

McNeil-Willson, Richard, Gerrand, Vivian, Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2019) Polarisation, Violent Extremism and Resilience in Europe Today : an Analytical Framework. Technical Report. BRaVE Project.

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2016) Latin American Migration, Evangelical Christianity and Gender in Italy. Working Paper. European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy.

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Caring for the Nation: Men and Women Activists in Radical Right Populist Parties 2012-2014. Final Research Report to European Research Council. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties. A Comparative Study of Women’s and Men’s Participation in the Northern League (Italy) and The National Front (France). In-Progress Preliminary Analysis Report. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Marchetti, Sabrina and Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2014) Gendered and Racialised Constructions of Work in Bureaucratised Care Services in Italy. Working Paper. European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Website

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2022) Why do women join radical-Right parties? [Website]

Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 (2021) The ‘co-optation’ of feminism by populist radical right parties. What is it? How can we counter it? [Website]

McNeil-Willson, Richard, Gerrand, Vivian, Scrinzi, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-0562 and Triandafyllidou, Anna (2020) What will 2020 bring? Finding our way in a more polarised world. [Website]

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Grants

British Academy Mid-Career Fellow 'Gender and the populist radical right in Europe' (2018-2019, £132,072)

 

Migration and religion in Southern Europe. Evangelical Christianity, migration and work

“MIGRANTCHRISTIANITY. Migration, Religion and Work in Comparative Perspective: Evangelical ‘ethnic churches’ in Southern Europe”, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship of the European Commission, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies/Global Governance Programme, European University Institute (2015-2017).

 

Gender Relations in Anti-Immigration Social Movements in Europe 

"Gendering Activism in Populist Radical Right Parties: A Comparative Study of Women’s and Men’s Participation in The Northern League (Italy) and The National Front (France)", European Research Council, Starting grant, euros 228,674 (2012-2014)

2010, British Academy small grant, ‘Gendering the study of anti-immigration movements in Europe: women and men activists in the Northern League party in Italy’ (£1,756).

2010, Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn grant, ‘Women’s associations and representations of gender in the Northern League party: a study of documentary sources’ (£1,200). 

 

Migrant and Native Women's Activism in Contemporary Italy

An ethnographic study of migrant and native women's associations in Italy, British Academy small grant (£976, award n. SG110856), June-July 2012

‘Italian feminism and the challenge of international migration’, 10th June-10th July 2011, ethnographic study funded through  Sociology Seedcorn funding, University of Glasgow.

Supervision

  • Habersky, Elena
    Navigating Restrictions: How Sudanese in Cairo Contest the Egyptian-Sudanese Border.

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Qualifications

  • Laurea (BA) in Contemporary history, Genoa, Italy (1999)
  • DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies = MSc / MA) in Sociologie des Migrations et relations interethniques (Migrations and Ethnic Relations), Nice, France (2001)
  • PhD in Sociology, Nice, France (2005)

Positions held

  • 2013, Visiting fellow, CEE - Centre d’études éuropéennes, Sciences Po, IEP - Institute for Political Studies, Paris, France
  • 2013, Visiting professor, Department of Sociology, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
  • Postdoctoral fellow (CNRS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, 2006-2007)
  • Consultant for UNESCO, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, International Migration and Multicultural Policies Section, Paris (2006)
  • Assistant lecturer (allocataire monitrice), Department of Sociology, University of Nice, France (2001-2004)

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