Allison Petrozziello is an Assistant Professor of Global Migration & Inequality in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a global governance scholar specializing in gender- and human-rights based approaches to the governance of migration and citizenship. Her academic work builds on over 15 years of experience in international research, teaching, and policy advocacy work, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, with stakeholders ranging from grassroots organizations to policymakers to the United Nations.

Dr. Petrozziello’s research, as featured on TMU’s Borders & Belonging podcast, examines global patterns of intersecting forms of social inequality that can make children of migrants and refugees stateless. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation, Birth Registration as Bordering Practice: A Feminist Analysis of Migration Governance and the Production of Statelessness (external link). With Bridging Divides, she leads the project “Birthing Canadian Citizens: Migrant Mothers’ Experiences Accessing Documentation and Citizenship for Children Born in Canada and Abroad.”

BD Funded Projects

• Birthing Canadian citizens: Migrant mothers’ experiences accessing documentation and citizenship for children born in Canada and abroad (TRS4 1.4)