Peer-reviewed articles

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Negash S. M., Piccoli L., Afonso A. (2026). Not all migrants are equal: public support for migrant welfare access by migrant type and social protection scheme. European Political Science Review. Online first. doi:10.1017/S1755773926100551

 

Džankić, J., Piccoli, L., & Mantha-Hollands, A. (2026). Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis. Citizenship Studies, 1–20. doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2026.2649780

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Piccoli, L. (2026). Migration representation in movies from 1940 to 2024: The spectacle of human mobility and the North-bound bias. Migration Studies, 14(1): 1-19. doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnag003

 

Piccoli, L., and Jacob-Owens, T. (2025). Regulating human movement in a global pandemic: ‘Essential Travel’ during COVID-19. Migration Studies, 13(2): 1-17. doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf012

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Dennison, J., Piccoli, L, & Carmo Duarte, M. (2025). Migration communication campaigns: towards a research agenda and open database. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(11): 2794-2813. doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2419550

 

Wanner, P.,  and Piccoli, L. (2025). The migrant mortality penalty in a pandemic: Disparities in COVID-19 mortality among foreign residents in Switzerland, 2020. Populations, 1(1), 6: 1-17. doi.org/10.3390/populations1010006

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Piccoli, L., Perna, R. (2024). Civil society organisations and the healthcare of irregular migrants: the humanitarianism-equity dilemma. Comparative Migration Studies, 12 (20): 1-18. doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00372-5

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Piccoli, L., Gianni, M., Ruedin, D., Achermann, C., Dahinden, J., Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, P. Nedelcu, M., Zittoun, T. (2024), What is the nexus between migration and mobility? A framework to understand the interplay between different ideal types of human movement. Sociology: 58(5): 1019-1037. doi.org/10.1177/00380385241228836

 

Piccoli, L., Ruedin, D. and Geddes, A. (2023), ‘A global network of scholars? The geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications’, Comparative Migration Studies, 11(16): 1-16. doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00336-1

 

Piccoli, L., Džankić, J., Ruedin, D., and Jacob-Owens, T. (2022), Restricting human movement during the COVID-19 pandemic: New research avenues in the study of mobility, migration, and citizenship’. International Migration Review, 57(2): 505-520. doi.org/10.1177/01979183221118907

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Piccoli, L. and Ruedin, D. (2022), Local-to-local electoral connections for migrants: the association between voting rights in the place of origin and the propensity to vote in the place of residence. Democratization, 30(1): 40-56. doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2022.2108802

Piccoli, L. and Wanner, P. (2022), The political determinants of the health of undocumented immigrants: a comparative analysis of mortality patterns in Switzerland. BMC public health, 22(1):1-14. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13188-8

 

Piccoli, L. (2021), Multilevel strategies of political inclusion: The contestation of voting rights for foreign residents by regional assemblies in Europe. Regional & Federal Studies, 32(3): 331–352. doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1921742

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Piccoli, L. (2021), La trasformazione del regime globale di mobilità durante la pandemia di COVID-19. Mondi Migranti, 2021(1): 45-60. doi.org/10.3280/MM2021-001003

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Piccoli, L., Džankić, J. Ruedin, D. (2021), Citizenship, Migration and Mobility in a Pandemic (CMMP): A global dataset of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement. Plos One, 16(3): e0248066. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248066

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Piccoli, L. (2019), Traditions of regional citizenship: Explaining subnational variation of the right to healthcare for undocumented immigrants. Regional Studies, 54(11): 1498-1507. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1693530

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Piccoli, L. (2019), The regional battleground: Partisanship as a key driver of the subnational contestation of citizenship. Ethnopolitics, 18(4): 340-361. doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2019.1584494

 

Schmid, S. D., Piccoli, L. and Arrighi, J. T. (2019), Non-universal suffrage: Measuring electoral inclusion in contemporary democracies. European Political Science, 18: 695–713. doi.org/10.1057/s41304-019-00202-8

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Chapters in edited volumes

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Džankić, J. and Piccoli, L. (2026), The governance of citizenship, in The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, Edited by L. Cleton, N. Irastorza, A. Weinar, L. Zhyznomirska.

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Jacob-Owens, T., and Piccoli, L. (2025), Transnational mobility rights and the COVID-19 travel restrictions. In Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 297-312. Available at: https://www.elgaronline.com/abstract/book/9781035302253/chapter17.xml

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Piccoli, L. (2024), Pandemic citizenship. in Marisol García Cabeza and Thomas Faist (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing: Chicago. Available at: https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800880467/ch77.xml

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Piccoli, L. (2020), Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Swiss Citizens Abroad, in Jean-Michel Lafleur and Daniela Vintila (Eds.), Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 3), Cham: Springer. Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-51237-8

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Piccoli, L. (2018), Regional Citizenship in a System of Plural Memberships and Multilevel Rights, in Klaus Detterbeck and Eve Hepburn (Eds.), Handbook of Territorial Politics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 203–214.

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Piccoli, L. (2016), Structuring Regional Citizenship: Historical Continuity and Contemporary Salience, European Yearbook of Minority Issues 2016, Nijhoff Brill, Boston and Leiden.

 

Miscellaneous

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Dennison, J., Piccoli, L., Carmo Duarte, M. (2024), Migration Communication Campaigns: The state of the practice and an open database, ICMPD and Migration Policy Centre. Available at: https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/76681/Migration-communication-campaigns_2024.pdf

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Piccoli, L., Dennison, J., Carmo Duarte, M. (2024), Migration Communication Campaigns Database, EUI Data. Available at: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/76561

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Piccoli, L. (2024), Directory of Migration Research Institutions. EUI Research Data and nccr - on the move. Available at: https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/75564

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Piccoli, L., Džankić, J., Perret, A., Ruedin, D., Jacob-Owens, T. (2020), International Travel Restrictions in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak, nccr - on the move and GLOBALCIT. Available at: https://tabsoft.co/3fxs9d0

 

Piccoli, L., Pont, A., Mittmasser, C., Rausis, F., Pedersen, O., Ader, L., Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, P.,  Sidler, P. (2020), Mobility and Border Control in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak, nccr - on the move. Available at: https://tabsoft.co/2YqC5is
 

Arrighi, J. T., Piccoli, L. (2018), 'SWISSCIT Index on Citizenship Law in Swiss Cantons: Conceptualisation, Measurement, Aggregation', nccr – on the move working papers series, 18, available at https://nccr-onthemove.ch/publications/swisscit-index-on-citizenship-law-in-swiss-cantons-conceptualisation-measurement-aggregation/

 

Piccoli, L., Schmid, S. D., Arrighi, J. T., Baubock, R. (2017), Explanatory Note: Conditions for Electoral Rights 2017, Fiesole: European University Institute, at http://globalcit.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CER_2017_explanatory_note.pdf

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Piccoli, L. (2016), 'Left out by the state, taken in by the region? Explaining the regional variation of healthcare rights for undocumented migrants in Italy, Spain, and Switzerland', nccr – on the move working papers series, 11, available at https://nccr-onthemove.ch/publications/left-out-by-the-state-taken-in-by-the-region-explaining-the-regional-variation-of-healthcare-rights-for-undocumented-migrants-in-italy-spain-and-switzerland/