Curriculum vitae
Alberta Argia ANDREOTTI
Born in Milan (Italy)
Department of Sociology and Social Research Milano-Bicocca
Faculty of Sociology
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
20126 Milan (Italy)
tel. +39 02 64487579
Fax +39 02 700 449 128
Education
1997 MA in Political and Social Science at the Università Statale di Milano: 110/110.
1998-1999 Scholarship at the Camera di Commercio Industria e Artigianato of Milan, Research
Office.
2002 Phd dissertation in Sociology (University of Trento) in: Social networks as resources and
constraints” tutor Fortunata Piselli and discussant Antonio Chiesi.
2002- 2004 Post doc researcher at the department of Sociology Milan-Bicocca
2004- 2005 Post-doc fellowship at the CEVIPOF-Sciences-Po, Paris.
Academic position
2015-Present Associate Professor at Department of Sociology and Social Research University of
Milano-Bicocca
2014-present Secretary-Treasurer of the International Research Committee 21 on Urban and
Regional Research-International Sociological Association.
2013-present Member of the International Board of Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional
Research-International Sociological Association.
2013-present Member of the Comité de lecture de la collection des documents de travail du RT6 de
l'Association Française de Sociologie.
2011-present Member of the Doctorate Board “URBEUR-QUASI”, Unimib
2008 –present Aggregate Member of the Program “Cities are back in town” Sciences-Po, Paris.
2006-present Assistant Professor and Aggregate Professor at Department of Sociology and Social
Research University of Milano-Bicocca
1999-present Member of the Observatory of Urban Poverty in Milan settled at the Department of
Sociology of the University of Milan-Bicocca.
Visiting scholar
May 2011
Visiting Scholar at the University of Rethymno, Crete, Greece
May 2010
Visiting Scholar at the CEE-Sciences-Po, Paris
Referee for the following Journals
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Social Policy; Journal of
European Social Policy; The Sociological Quarterly, Urban Studies, Polis, European Societies, RIS.
Evaluator for ECR
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2012-present Evaluator for the European Research Council (Starting grants)
Membership
2010-present Member of the AIS-ELO- Italian Economic Sociology Association
2002 present Member of the RC 21-ISA
2013 Member of the ASA- American Sociological Association
2013 Member of the SASE
Past work experiences
2000-2003
President of the cooperative Elaborando scrl
2004-2006
Project Manager of the RTN UrbEurope Network (organizing Conferences and
workshop both from the scientific and executive point of view).
Recent teaching experiences
2006/07 Labour Market Faculty of Sociology, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Laurea Triennale in
Scienze del Turismo e della Comunità locale (credits 6).
2007/08; 2008/09 Entrepreneurship and social capital Faculty of Sociology, Università di MilanoBicocca Laurea Triennale, Scienze dell’Organizzazione (credits 6).
2008/09- 2009-10/ 2010-11 Aggregate Professor Social foundations of economic behavoiur,
Università di Milano-Bicocca, Laurea Magistrale in Sociologia (credits 6).
2009/10- 2010-11 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Economy, Firm and society Università di MilanoBicocca, Laurea Treinnale, Scienze dell’Organizzazione (crediti 6).
2011-12 2012-13 2013-2014 2014-15 Social Capital and local Productive System, Università di
Milano-Bicocca, Laurea Magistrale in Scienze e gestione dei servizi (credits 6)
2010-2013/ 2013-2014 Networks, Social capital and local development, classes for PhD students
(URBEUR PhD program)
Most recent research:
2014
Local coordinator of the project : Governing large metropolitan cities: the case of
Milan within the programme “Cities are Back in Town” Sciences-Po, Paris.
2013
Researcher in the project “ The Transformation of Italian Industrial districts: the
interfirm network contracts as a possible way out: four Italian regions in
comparison”, Coordinator: Serafino Negrelli, financed by: ConfApi Lecco.
2011
Researcher in the comparative project Social Polis, FP7, coordinator by Frank Moulert
2005
Scientific International co-ordinator with Patrick Le Galès of the project ‘Modes de vie
et representation des managers dans les villes européeenes’, funded by PUCA.
2004
Researcher in the project ‘The Italian Yong people in the labour market, their attitudes
and prejudices ‘, coordinated by Paolo Barbieri, funded by the IRES Research
Institute.
2002- 2004 Local co-ordinator of the research project “Transformation des structures familiales et
évolution des politiques sociales : les services de la petite enfance en Europe comme
services de cohésion sociale (TSFEPS). Project funded by the EU – DG XII
(International coordinator Bernard Eme, Emes-Crida; National coordinator: Enzo
Mingione).
1999-2001 Researcher in the project “Costs and Needs of Children in the Milan Municipality”,
funded by the Municipality of Milan.
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1998-2001 Local coordinator of the research in the project “The Spatial Dimensions of Urban
Social Exclusion and Integration: A European Comparison (URBEX)” (international
coordinator: prof. Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, National coordinator:
Project funded by the EU – DG XII 4rd TSER Call.
1997-2000 Member of the research team “Comparative Social Inclusion Policies and Citizenship
in Europe: Towards a New European Social Model” (coordinator prof. Maurice
Roche). Thematic Network funded by the EU – DG XII 2nd TSER Call.
1999
Researcher in the project “Women, Exclusion and Homelessness”, financed by the
European Observatory on Homelessness (Italian coordinator: prof. Antonio Tosi).
1997
Researcher in the project Citizenship Study financed by the DG XXII of the
Commission of the European Communities, international coordinator Yuri Kazepov.
1997
Researcher in the project Children at risk of social exclusion in Milan, financed by the
Milan Municipality (Scientific Responsible: prof. Enzo Mingione).
1997
Researcher in the project “Support in Housing in Italy”, financed by the European
Observatory on Homelessness (Italian coordinator: prof. Antonio Tosi).
Most Recent Research Reports:
Andreotti, A. (1998) Supported accommodation for homeless, in Tosi, A.; Ranci, C. Support in
House in Italy, National report, European Observatory on Homelessness, FEANTSA:
Andreotti, A.; Tosi, S. (1999) Services and provisions for homeless women, in Tosi, A (ed)
Women exclusion and homelessness in Italy, National report, European Observatory on
Homelessness, FEANTSA:
Andreotti, A.; Kazepov, Y. (eds) (2002) The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and
Integration: the Case of Milan, Urbex series, n. 16, University of Amsterdam.
Andreotti A., Benassi, D. (2004) L’ambiente di vita e le situazioni di disagio sociale (povertà,
ineguaglianza, discriminazione), in Grassi, R. (a cura di), La condizione dell’infanzia e
dell’adolescenza nella società italiana, Istituto Iard Franco Brambilla
Andreotti A., Sabatinelli S. (2004) Childcare in Italy: path dependency and new needs, Emes
working papers series.
Andreotti A., Fraisse L., Sabatinelli S. (2004) Does the diversification of childcare services increase
social cohesion? Emes working papers series.
Andreotti A., Sabatinelli S. (2004) I servizi innovativi alla prima infanzia in Lombardia, Iard,
Quaderni della Regione Lombardia.
Andreotti A. (2004) Vecchi e nuovi pregiudizi dei giovani rispetto al lavoro, Rapporto IRES-CGIL
a cura di Barbieri, P. Giovani, valori e lavoro, cap.3.
Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P. (2005) Les cadres supérieurs sont- ils en train d’echapper aux contraintes
des societes nationals? Mobilite et segregation sociale dans les villes europeennes : une
enquete comparative exploratoire in Groux G; Cousin, O. (eds) Les cahiers du gdr
CADRES, Du travail à la societé: valeurs et representation des cadres, 10 , pp. 115-134.
Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P. (eds) (2008) Mobilité, ancrage, exit partiel et segregation sociale dans les
villes européennes. Une enquête exploratoire, Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’Amenagement et
du Developpement Durable, Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture, Contrat Numéro:
F05.07-Co 05000008.
Andreotti, A. ; Tonelli, L. (2014) Il Modello Emilia Romagna nello sviluppo dei contratti di rete:
dal distretto tradizionale al distretto tecnologico in Negrelli (a cura di) Il contratto di rete,
uno strumento “snello” e “flessibile” di cooperazione tra imprese per innovare e competere.
nel contesto della Lombardia e del Nord.
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Reviews
Andreotti, A. (2003) “Rapporto sulle politiche contro la povertà e l’esclusione sociale – 19972001, di Chiara Saraceno (a cura di) Commissione d’indagine sull’esclusione sociale, Carocci,
Roma, in Polis, n.2.
Mingione, E; Andreotti, A. (2004) “Amsterdam Human Capital”, edited by Sako Musterd e Willem
Salet, Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, in International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research, vol. 28.
Andreotti, A. (2008) FAVELL A. EUROSTARS AND EUROCITIES, Oxford, Blackwell, in
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Andreotti, A. (2013) The New Middle Classes. Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism, and
Environmental Concern, Lange Hellmuth, Meier Lars (eds), 2009, in International Journal of
Urban and Regional Research.
Publications
Articles
1. Andreotti, A.; Kazepov, Y. Mingione, E. (2000) Het Italiaanse stelsel van sociale
uitkeringen in een overgangssituatie: trends en vooruitzichten, in TAP, 2/3, vol. 23, pp. 191208. Translation:
“The Italian Welfare System in Transition: trends and prospects”.
2. Mingione, E.; Andreotti, A. (2001) Esclusione urbana e sistemi locali di welfare in Europa,
in Argomenti, 2, pp. 23-44.
3. Andreotti, A.; Garcia, M.; Gomez, A.; Hespana, P.; Kazepov, Y.; Mingione, E.; (2001) The
South European Model of Welfare, in Journal of European Area Studies, Special Issue on
European Social Policy, edited by Maurice Roche and Rik van Berkel, vol. 9, Nr. 1, pp. 4362.
4. Andreotti A., Barbieri P. (a cura di) (2003) Reti e capitale sociale Numero monografico
della rivista Inchiesta, n. 139, gennaio-marzo, Dedalo Editore, pp. 1-4.
5. Andreotti A. (2003) Strategie di selezione per la mobilitazione del capitale sociale, in
Numero monografico della rivista Inchiesta, n. 139, gennaio-marzo, Dedalo Editore, pp. 2433.
6. Andreotti, A. (2005) Capacità di restituzione e attivazione di capitale sociale: il caso del
sostegno economico, in Polis, vol. XIX, n.1, pp. 5-30.
7. Mingione, E.; Andreotti, A. (2005) La trasformazione della regolazione sociale del lavoro: i
casi del Nord e del Sud Italia in prospettiva comparativa, In Sociologia del lavoro n. 100,
pp. 98-125.
8. Andreotti, A., Sabatinelli, S. (2005) Disuguaglianze locali nella cura dell’Infanzia, In La
Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, n. 4, pp. 129-143
9. Andreotti, A. (2006) Coping strategies in a wealthy city, in International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research, Vol 30, Issue 2, 328-345.
10. Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P. (2007) Globali o Locali? Un’indagine comparativa su dirigenti e
cadres supérieurs a Milano e Parigi in Rivista delle Politiche Sociali, n. 4, pp. 129-148.
11. Andreotti, A.; Fellini, I. (2012) Dentro la crisi: partecipazione e occupazione femminili in un
mercato del lavoro territorialmente diviso, in Sociologia del lavoro, n.126, pp 25-38
12. Andreotti, A.; Scalmana, L.(2012) Imprenditore e manager: una integrazione possibile e
necessaria, in Quaderni di Mangement, n. 55.
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13. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E.; Polizzi E.(2012) Local Welfare Systems: A Challenge for
Social Cohesion, in Urban Studies, August, pp. 1-16: 10.1177/0042098012444884
14. Andreotti, A.; Le Gales P.; Moreno Fuentes J. F. (2013) Transnational mobility and
rootedness: the upper middle classes in European cities, in Global Networks: Volume
13, Issue 1, pages 41–59 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2012.00365.x.
15. Andreotti, A.; Le Gales P.; Moreno Fuentes J. F. (2013) Controlling the Urban Fabric: The
Complex Game of Distance And Proximity in European Upper-Middle-Class Residential
Strategies, in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 37, Issue
2, pages 576–597,
16. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E.; Pratschke, J. (2013) Female employment and the economic
crisis: social change in Northern and Southern Italy, in European societies; 15:4, pp. 617635.
17. Andreotti, A., & Mingione, E. (2013). Le développement de systèmes locaux de
l'intervention sociale, tendance commune dans les pays industrialisés. Informations sociales,
179(5), 28-36.
18. Mingione, E.; Andreotti, A. Benassi, D; Borghi, P; Cavalca, G; Fellini, I. (2014)
Frammentazione e individualizzazione della domanda di tutela. L'esperienza dei giovani
professionisti nel Milanese, Quaderni di rassegna sindacale, 1, 141.
19. Mingione, E.; Andreotti, A. Benassi, D; Borghi, P; Cavalca, G; Fellini, I. (2014) Le
organizzazioni sociali e i giovani professionisti nell'area milanese. Quaderni di rassegna
sindacale, 1, 123-140.
20. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E. (2014) Local welfare systems in Europe and the economic crisis,
in European Urban and Regional Studies, 1–15: DOI: 10.1177/0969776414557191.
21. Andreotti, A. (ed) Neighbourhoods and Social Networks in Contemporary Cities,
Monographic Issue, Sociologia Urbana e Rurale, n. 105.
22. Andreotti, A. (2014) Neighborhoods in the globalized world in Sociologia Urbana e Rurale,
n. 105
Chapters in books
1. Andreotti, A. (2006) Milan: Urban Poverty in a Wealthy City, in Musterd, S.; Murie, A. ;
Kesteloot, C. (eds) Neighbourhoods of Poverty : Urban Social Exclusion and Integration in
Comparison Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87-112.
2. Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P. (2008) Middle class neighbourhood attachment in Paris and
Milan: partial exit and profound rootedness, in Networked Urbanism. Social Capital in the
City, Blockland, T. e Savage, M. (eds), Ashgate, pp. 127-144.
3. Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P. (2011) “Elite, Middle Classes and cities”, in Favell, Giuraudon,
V.(eds) The Sociology of European Union , Palgrave, pp. 76-99.
4. Andreotti A. (2011) Mark Granovetter: spazio sociale e spazio geografico. In: Nuvolati, G..
Lezioni di sociologia urbana. p. 205-224, BOLOGNA:Il Mulino.
5. Andreotti A., Mingione E.(2011). La sfida dell'occupazione femminile in Italia: la spaccatura
tra Nord e Sud. In: Gosetti, G. (a cura di) Il lavoro: condizioni, problemi, sfide. p. 119-133,
Milano:Franco Angeli
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6. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E. (2012) The Modernisation of Female Employment in Italy: one
country, two patterns, in Ozkan, Y.; Bugra A. (eds) Mediterranean Trajectories of women
employment, Palgrave, pp. 38-64. Translated in Turkish (2013)
7. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E. (2013) The city as local welfare system, in Naomi Carmon and
Susan Fainstein (eds) Urban Planning as if People Mattered: Looking Back for the Future,
Penguinn Books, pp. 224-241..
8. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E. (2013) Il welfare locale, in Vicari Haddock, S. Questioni
Urbane, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 147-166.
9. Andreotti, A.; Le Gales P.; Moreno Fuentes J. F. (2014) Transnational and local everyday
practices in European cities: are the new barbarians on the road? in Watt, P.; Smith, P.
Neighbourhood Belonging and Mobilities in the City and Suburb, Palgrave, pp.23-41
10. Andreotti, A.; Mingione, E.; Pratschke, J. (2014) Female employment and the economic
crisis: social change in Northern and Southern Italy, in The Mediterranean Welfare Regime
and the Economic Crisis, Edited by Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes, Pau Mari-Klose,
Routledge, pp: 146-164.
11. Andreotti, A.; Benassi D. (2014) Italian sociology and European sociology, in Sokratis
Koniordos & Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis (eds) The Handbook of European Sociology,
London/New York, Routledge, pp.285-302.
12. Andreotti, A., & Mingione, E. (2015). Les systèmes locaux de l'intervention sociale face aux
inégalités sociales et spatiales. In Bresson Maryse, F. Colomb, & Gaspar Jean-François (a
cura di), Les terrritoires vécus de l'intervention sociale (pp. 21-36). Villeneuve d'Ascq :
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
Books
1. Andreotti; A. (2009) Che cos’è il capitale sociale, Carocci: Le Bussole, Roma.
2. Andreotti, A.; Le Galès P.; Moreno Fuentes J. F. (2015) Globalized Minds, Roots in the city.
Urban upper Middle classes in Europe, Blackwell.
Main recent conferences
Proposed and organized conferences-sessions at conferences
20 November 2003 with Paolo Barbieri: Presentazione del numero monografico di Inchiesta sul
Capitale Sociale, Seminario del Dipartimento di Sociologia dell’Università di MilanoBicocca.
30 June 2005 Chair and Organizer of the session Social capital and social networks:
http://www.cevipof.msh-paris.fr/RC21/, Paris.
6 March 2009: Servizi alla prima infanzia e coesione sociale, Università di Milano BicoccaAssonidi (con Stefania Sabatinelli).
12 May 2009 Chair of the session: Local welfare and Social services: the relation with social
cohesion, Vienna Conference on The city and social cohesion.
28-30 August 2013 Chair of the sessions: How much do urban neighbourhoods matter in a
networked globalised world? Berlin, RC21 Conference.
Papers accepted and presented under selection process
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10 July 2002 The downsize of strong family ties, Brisbane ISA-RC21 Conference (with David
Benassi).
22 November 2002 Il lato oscuro dei legami familiari in Italia: due esempi, convegno AIS, sezione
vita quotidiana.
21-22 September 2005 To pay back and the selective mobilization of social capital: the case
of monetary support, Conference on Social Capital, Social Capital Foundation, Malta.
28 April 2005 The third sector in the development of childcare services. The Italian case, convegno
organizzato da ISTR-EMES European Conference, Paris (con Stefania Sabatinelli).
16 July 2009 “An international Bourgeosie in the making?” SASE Conference, Paris with Francisco
Javier Moreno Fuentes.
22 April 2010 A European bourgeoisie or European bourgeoisies, CES Montreal (with Patrick Le
Galès.
July 2010 Goteborg “ Not Nomads: European Upper middle classes”, RC21-ISA Congress (with
Patrick Le Galès.
20-22 June 2011, Transnational mobility and rootedness: the upper middle classes in European
cities CES Conference, Barcelona (with Moreno Fuentes, F.J.)
20-22 June 2011 Patterns of Female Employment in Italy: one country, two patterns CES
Conference, Barcelona (with Enzo Mingione)
September 2011 Dentro la crisi: partecipazione e occupazione femminili in un mercato del lavoro
territorialmente diviso, Ais-Elo Catania (with Ivana Fellini).
27-29 June 2013 Segmented labour markets and female labour force heterogeneity: unexpected
outcomes in times of crisis, SASE conference, Milan (with Ivana Fellini)
10 August 2103 Urban Upper-middle Classes as agents of Globalisation and Europeanisation (with
Patrick Le Galès, Centre d’Études Européennes, Sciences-Po Paris), American Sociological
Association.
Invited Speaker
2001 Esclusione sociale in due quartieri di Milano? L’esperienza di Urbex a Baggio e Ponte
Lambro, Osservatorio sulle Povertà Urbane, Università Milano-Bicocca,
25 March 2002 Donne, Uomini e povertà in un contesto di benessere la città di Milano, organizzato
da Ateneo Bicocca Coordinamento Donne, relazione dal titolo: Madri sole, povertà e strategie
di sopravvivenza a Milano, Casa della Cultura, Milano.
16 May 2002 Children Poverty, seminario organizzato dal Dipartimento di Sociologia, relazione
dal titolo: Povertà dei minori a Milano, Università di Milano-Bicocca.
May 2003
Selective strategies of women in condition of economic need, seminario organizzato
a Brussels, Università di Leuven.
17 May 2004 Attivare capitale sociale: non sempre è possibile, non sempre e' conveniente,
convegno organizzato dall’Università di Siena, Prof. Salvini.
28 October 2004 Pauvreté et Capital Social, seminare au CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris.
24 November 2004 Soutien social et soutien familial comme action strategique, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes Sciences Sociales, organisé par Serge Paugam.
17 March 2005 Childcare in Italy. Changing concepts of collective services - changing concepts of
governance, Betreuung von Kindern und soziale Dienste. Zielsetzungen, Qualitätskonzepte
und Formen der Politik, University of Giessen, Prof. Adlbert Evers.
17-18 November 2005 Upper middle classes: exiting from the national social structure ? Mobility
and spatial segregation in European cities” (con P. Le Galès) Seminaire Renouveler l’urbain
au nom de la mixité ? », Paris.
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28 september 2006 European Middle classes, PUCA Ministère de l'Equipment, Paris (con Patrick
Le Galès)
10 January 2008 La partecipazione sociale e politica delle minoranze alla vita urbana: una risposta
alla segregazione spaziale? All’interno dei seminari: Unidiversité.
27-28 May 2008: Local welfare and social services: a focused research agenda for the Eu
Commission: Workshop Social Polis Platform, Bruxelles
24-25 April 2009 Early Childcare services in Italy: local diversification and fragmentation,
University of Hamburg Conference on Local welfare systems (con Stefania Sabatinelli).
18 Octobre 2010 “Local Childcare systems in Italy: the north South divide a challenge for social
cohesion” Oslo, Workshop on Active Local welfare systems, University of Oslo (with
Stefania Sabatinelli).
6 November 2010 “The Two Italian Models for the Female Employment Process of Modernization:
Northern Italy: a Real Double Shift, Istanbul, Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum Workshop.
May 2011 “Transnational and local everyday practices in European cities: no barbarians on the road,
University of Rethymno, Crete.
22 March 2013 Les systèmes locaux de l’intervention sociale: de l’expansion à la crise, Keynote
speaker, colloque on Les territoires vecus, Versailles.
19 May 2014 Presentation of the book “Globalized Minds Roots in the city”, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes, Paris (with P. Le Galès and F.J.Moreno Fuentes).
9-10 October 2014 Middle classes and the Urban Fabric: the Distance and Proximity Game
Workshop on Middle Classes and City, Dusseldorf.
15 December 2014 Globalised Minds Roots in the City, Humboldt University.
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