Marcucci, Diletta

Diletta Marcucci holds a Master's with honors in International Relations (major - Global Studies) from the University of Wrocław, Poland. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Language, Culture, and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (major – Mandarin Chinese) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Her Master’s thesis “Construction of newcomers’ image in the Italian society in 2017. Case studies of Milan and Naples” won the 1st prize at the Competition for the Best Diploma Theses at the Institute of International Studies (Poland). Marcucci has also participated actively at several international conferences, including the 2nd International Science Conference between  NATO and the EU, the 3rd International Workshop on Chinese Migration in Spain, the 20th and 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference, among others.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra under the supervision of Prof. Ricard Zapata Barrero, GRITIM-UPF coordinator, doctoral researcher in the project BROAD-ER and a member of the IMISCOE PhD Board Network. Her primary research topic is framed within Urban Intercultural Governance: “Urban Intercultural Governance: Exploring Intercultural Participation of Chinese Migrants in Barcelona and Amsterdam".

Research interest:

• Urban Migration Governance
• Cultural policies
• Interculturalism
• Chinese Migration Studies