Prof. dr. Valentina Mazzucato

Professor of Globalisation and Development

Prof. dr. Valentina Mazzucato joined the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2008. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on theories of globalisation and development; transnational migration; and supervises Bachelor papers and Master theses related to those topics. 

Prof. Mazzucato heads three international, multi-year and interdisciplinary research programmes on transnational migration (see Research) in which she collaborates with European and African universities. These programmes focus on transnational migration between Africa and Europe, looking at economic as well as socio-cultural impacts on migrants and their home communities.

She has served on the 15-member international expert committee on migration and development research of the Social Science Research Council of the US. She also served on the World Connectors' Migration and Development group charged with brining issues related to migration to a broader public. She regularly gives keynote speeches in academic and policy-oriented events. 

Before coming to Maastricht, Prof. Mazzucato lived and worked in and on Africa for over twenty years, focusing on West Africa (Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana).

You can view Prof. Mazzucato's inaugural lecture, held on 11 June 2010 at Maastricht University, entitled "Bridging boundaries: Transnationalism and migrants' lives in a globalizing world", on the You Tube channel of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Keywords

  • Transnational migration
  • Transnational families
  • Transnational networks
  • Development and globalisation
  • Anthropology of Africa
  • Development Economics