BA MSc PhD

Youth and urban movements; social movements and globalisation; civil society and third sector; social policy; immigration; sustainable development; political and sociological thought; research methods.

Sociology, Political Sociology

Education

• 2005 PhD Social Youth Movements in Italy, Middlesex University
• 1999 MSc Sociology, London School of Economics, University of London
• 1994 BA Philosophy, Milan University

Employment

• Current Research Fellow, Middlesex University
• 2004 Lecturer in Research Methods (PT), School of Sociology and Social Research, Milan University
• 2002-2004 Research Fellow (PT), Research Centre on Environment and Sustainable Development, Brescia University
• 2001-2003 Consultant (PT), Social Policy Observatory, Venice Council
• 2000-2003 Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy (PT), IAL Lombardia, Brescia

Selected publications

Books

• Montagna, N. (2006). Forme di comunicazione ambientale: il caso della municipalizzata di Brescia, Vita e Pensiero: Milan.

• Montagna, N et al. (2006). Dal Rapporto Ambientale al Rapporto di Sostenibilità: evoluzione della comunicazione ambientale, Vita e Pensiero: Milan.

Edited books

• Montagna N., Ruggiero V. (2008). Social Movements. A Reader, Routledge: London. Book of the month for the European Sociological Association for September 2008,

• Montagna, N. (ed.) (2007). I Movimenti Sociali e la Mobilitazione Globale (contributions by Mario Pianta, Donatella della Porta, Doug McAdam, Dietr Rucht, Vincenzo Ruggiero, Sidney Tarrow) Franco Angeli: Milan.

• Montagna, N. & Tacchi, E.M. (2004). La comunicazione ambientale in alcune imprese pubbliche e private (The environmental communication of public and private companies). Franco Angeli: Milan.

Chapters in edited books

•  Montagna N. (2012) “La riunificazione familiare nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Diciottesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2012, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Montagna N. (2011) “Multiculturalismo, politiche d’integrazione e big society nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Diciasettesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2011, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Montagna N. (2010) “L'immigrazione irregolare nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Sedicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2010, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Montagna N. (2009) “Migrazione e recessione nel Regno Unito”, in V. Cesareo (ed.) Quindicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2009, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Montagna N. (2009) Five entries on some Italian Social Movements of the last forty years including the Peace movement in Italy, the Occupied Social Centres, the Anti-Psychiatric Movement and the Anti Racist Movement, in Immanuel Ness (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, Boston.

• Montagna N. (2009) “La nuova migrazione cinese nel Regno Unito”, in M. Lombardi (ed.) Quattordicesimo rapporto sulle migrazioni 2008, Franco Angeli, Milano

• Rosemary Sales, Xiujing Liang, Nicola Montagna and Alessio D’Angelo (2008) “London’s Chinatown: branded place or community space?” in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, and Catherine Kevin (eds.) Branding Cities and Cultural Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change, Routledge, London

• Montagna, N., (2008) ‘Social Movements and Global Mobilisations’, in V. Ruggiero and N.

• Montagna, (2008). Social Movements. A Reader, London: Routledge.

• Montagna, N. (2008) “Chinatown, Londra: città vetrina e luogo d’appartenenza”, in CIRMiB, Immigrazione e contesti locali. Annuario CIRMiB 2008", Vita & Pensiero, Milano

• Montagna, N. (2007). Rappresentanza ed autorganizzazione: il welfare dal basso dei Centri Sociali del Nord-Est. In Tommaso Vitale (ed), Rappresentanza e movimenti urbani. Franco Angeli: Milan.

• Montagna, N. (2002). Der Früling der Migrantinnen (Migrant struggles in Brescia, Italy). In D. Azzellini & G. Gleitze (eds), Italien: Legalisierung von Flüchtlingen – Militarisierung der Grenzen? FFM: Berlin.

Refereed articles

• Montagna N. (2013) “Labour, Citizenship and Subjectivity: Migrants’ Struggles within the Italian Crisis”, to be published in Social Justice, April 2013

•  Hatziprokopiou P,, Montagna N. (2012) 'Contested Chinatown: Chinese migrants incorporation and the urban space in London and Milan', fully accepted and to be published in Ethnicities, (to be published and available on line)

• Sales, R., Hatziprokopiou, P., Christiansen, F., D'Angelo, A., Liang, X., Lin, X., and Montagna, N. (2011) “London's Chinatown: Diaspora, identity and belonging”, International Journal of Business & Globalisation, Volume 7 Issue 2.

• Montagna N. (2010) “The making of a global movement. Cycles of protest and scale of action”, Sociological Review, 58 (4), pp638-655.

• Montagna N. (2010) “Desobediencia global: ¿el adiós al Estado-nación?” Veredas: Revista del Pensamiento Sociológico, 11 (21); pp25-45.

• Montagna N. (2010) “Identità Antagoniste Itinerari dell’«autonomia» negli anni ottanta” Zapruder, sotrie in movimento, 21 (peer reviewed), pp142-152.

• Montagna, N. (2006). “The decommodification of urban space and the Centro Sociale Rivolta”, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 10(3), pp295-304.

• Montagna, N. (2003). Modelli organizzativi delle cooperative sociali (organisational models and transformations of third sector organisations). Impresa Sociale, 69/70, pp15-30.

• Montagna, N. (2002). Welfare e comunità un programma di rigenerazione sostenibile a Lewisham, Londra’ (Welfare and Community: a sustainable regeneration programme in Lewisham, South-East London). Studi di Sociologia, 2, pp42-60.

• Montagna, N. (2001). La primavera dei migranti (The migrants spring). Posse-A Political and Philosophical Review, 2, Winter 2001, pp135-150.

Official reports

• Kofman E, Lukes S., D’Angelo A., Montagna N. (2009) The Equality Implications Of Being A Migrant In Britain: A Review, Research Report for the Equal and Human Rights Commission

• Sales, R., Hatziprokopiou, P., Christiansen, F., D'Angelo, A., Liang, X., Lin, X., and Montagna, N. (2009) London's Chinatown: Diaspora, identity and belonging,  AHRC Diasporas, Migration Identities programme. Social Policy Research Centre Working Paper Series, WP n. 3, Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University. (available online:
  www.mdx.ac.uk/hssc/research/centres/sprc/docs/London_Chinatown.pdf)

• Kofman E, Lukes S., D’Angelo A., Montagna N. (2007) New Migrant and their Needs in England, Research Report for the Refugees Housing Association

• Montagna, N. (2003). Un paesaggio in movimento. Le coperative sociali a Venezia (Characteristics of the third sector in Venice). Osservatorio Politiche Sociali: Venice.

• CUCR (2000). Pepys Community Forum: Baseline report 2000. Goldsmith College: London.

Book Reviews

• Montagna N. “Becoming Common”, Soundings¸ 2008, 38, pp.114-116

• Montagna N. “An alliance of women”, Political Geography, 2007; 26 (3) pp.352-353

• Montagna N. “Italian cityscapes”, review of the book by Foot J. and Lumley R. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Winter 2005

• Montagna N. “The trouble with community” review of the book by Rapport N. and Amit-Talai V. in Social Movement Studies Volume 3, Number 1 / April 2004

Recent International Conferences:

• 24 November 2012: New political subjectivity and migrants’ struggles in Italy, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy on Patterns of Protest in Modern Italy History, Agents and Representations, University of London, Senate House

• 29 - 30 June 2010 - Islamophobia: Experiences, meanings and responses in The UK and Italy - Nicola Montagna and John Mulholland, Crime and conflict research centre - Middlesex University, - University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

• 11th –12th June 2009 – Contested Chinatown: the space of Chinese in London and Milan, Nicola Montagna and Panos Hatziprokopiou, Middlesex University - AHRC (Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme) and CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) – Conference on Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions - University of Surrey, Guildford, UK,

• 1-3 April 2009 – Chinese in London: Images and Realities of an Urban Diaspora, paper presented with A. d’Angelo at the International Conference: Race in the Modern World, Goldsmiths College, London

• 8-9 November 2007 – London, Middlesex University, presenation of the paper: Branded belonging: imagining London’s Chinatown, with Panos Hatziprokopiou and Xiujing Liang

• 8-9 October 2007 – Brescia, State university, presentation of the paper: London Chinatown: Integration or Multiculturalism? at the International Seminar Con-vivere l’europa e i suoi migranti

• September 2006 – London – Middlesex University: School of Health and Social Science – International seminar on migration and ethnicity. Paper: London’s Chinatown: images and realities

• November 2004 - London – The Italian Cultural Institute - Annual international conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy. Paper: Collective action between conflict and welfare community

• Dicembre 2003 – Venezia VIII International Conference Società Italiana di Studi Elettorali (SISE). Paper: La campagna elettorale del 2001: esposizione e scelta di voto

• April 2002 - Manchester Metropolitan University-Alternative futures and popular protest (annual conference). Paper Questioning while walking: The Centri Sociali Autogestiti in Italy