Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Francesca Campomori. 2025. ‘Collaborative Governance in Politicized Times: The Battle Over Asylum Policies in Italian Cities.’ Policy and Society. OnlineFirst.
Humphris, Rachel, Graham Hudson, and Raffaele Bazurli. 2025. ‘Digital Internal Bordering: Surveillance, Data-Sharing, and the Fate of Sanctuary Cities.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51 (14): 3675–3694.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Pietro Castelli Gattinara. 2025. ‘The Far Right Out of Its Comfort Zone? Framing Opposition to Immigration During COVID-19 in Italy.’ Government and Opposition 60 (2): 539–559.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Els de Graauw. 2023. ‘Explaining Variation in City Sanctuary Policies: Insights from American and European Cities.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49 (14): 3649–3670.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and David Kaufmann. 2023. ‘Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective.’ Urban Affairs Review 59 (4): 1129–1159.
Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting (American Political Science Association, 2021)
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Francesca Campomori. 2022. ‘Further to the Bottom of the Hierarchy: The Stratification of Forced Migrants’ Welfare Rights amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy.’ Citizenship Studies 26 (8): 1091–1116.
Bazurli, Raffaele, Tiziana Caponio, and Els de Graauw. 2022. ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mayors, Migration Challenges, and Multi-level Political Dynamics.’ Territory, Politics, Governance 10 (3): 297–305.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Martín Portos. 2021. ‘“Crook!”: The Impact of Perceived Corruption on Non-electoral Forms of Political Behavior.’ International Political Science Review 42 (2): 245–260.
Bazurli, Raffaele. 2020. ‘How “Urban” is Urban Policy-Making?.’ PS: Political Science & Politics 53 (1): 25–28.
Bazurli, Raffaele, Francesca Campomori, and Mattia Casula. 2020. ‘Shelter from the Storm: “Virtuous” Systems of Urban Asylum Governance Coping with Italy’s Immigration Crackdown.’ Politiche Sociali / Social Policies 7 (2): 201–224.
Bazurli, Raffaele. 2019. ‘Local Governments and Social Movements in the “Refugee Crisis”: Milan and Barcelona as “Cities of Welcome”.’ South European Society and Politics 24(3): 343–370.
Journal Edited Special Issues
Bazurli, Raffaele, Tiziana Caponio, and Els de Graauw. 2022. ‘Mayors and Migration Challenges in US and European Municipalities.’ Territory, Politics, Governance 10 (3).
Voices in Encyclopaedias
Bazurli, Raffaele. 2023. ‘Sanctuary Movements.’ In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social and Political Movements (2nd Edition), edited by David A. Snow, Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, and Bert Klandermans, 1893–1895. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Book Chapters
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Imrat Verhoeven. Forthcoming. ‘Contentious Governance and the City: How Urban Alliances Contest National Authority over Climate and Migration Policy.’ In Global Urban Policy, edited by David Kaufmann and Mara Sidney. Under contract with The University of Michigan Press.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Francesca Campomori. 2023. ‘Oltre la “Crisi dei Rifugiati”: Quali Lezioni da un Decennio di Governance dell’Asilo? I Casi di Bologna e Venezia.’ In Rifugiati e Solidali: L’Accoglienza dei Richiedenti Asilo in Italia, edited by Maurizio Ambrosini, 43–74. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Francesca Campomori. 2023. ‘Il Sistema di Asilo alla Prova del COVID-19: L’Esasperazione dell’Inclusione Differenziale di Richiedenti Asilo e Rifugiati.’ In Rifugiati e Solidali: L’Accoglienza dei Richiedenti Asilo in Italia, edited by Maurizio Ambrosini, 75–106. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Carlos Delclós. 2022. ‘Crimmigration and Solidarity in the Global City: The Case of Barcelona’s Street Vendors.’ In Contentious Migrant Solidarity: Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation, edited by Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper, 63–82. New York: Routledge.
Book Reviews
Bazurli, Raffaele. 2018. Street Politics in the Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy, edited by Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour, Héloïse Nez. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. Partecipazione e Conflitto – PACO 11 (3): 926–931.
Work in Progress
Bazurli, Raffaele. Insurgent Reformists: How Immigrant Rights Movements Won Policy Change in Barcelona and Milan. Authored monograph.
Bazurli, Raffaele. ‘Sanctuary Policies for Irregular Migrants in European Cities: Dismantling the Fortress from the Ground Up?’.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Sam Halvorsen. ‘The Ambivalence of Government Decentralisation for Poor People’s Politics: The Case of Slum Upgrading in a Buenos Aires’ Informal Neighbourhood’.
Swerts, Thomas, Raffaele Bazurli, and Carola Vasileiadi. ‘Sanctuary Suspended? The Erosion of Sanctuary Policies and Practices Towards Illegalized Migrants in Rotterdam’.
Bazurli, Raffaele, and Walter J. Nicholls. ‘Shaping Policymaking from the Ground Up: Activism and Governance in Multi-Level Institutional Settings’. Special issue.
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