Biography
Francesco Colin is visiting research fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and lecturer at the American College of the Mediterranean (France). His research focuses on citizens and civil society engagement at the intersection of local, national, and international governance, with a focus on Morocco and the broader Mediterranean. He published his research in different peer-reviewed journals, including Mediterranean Politics and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, as well as various book chapters. He is also a senior fellow with the Moroccan Institute of Policy Analysis (MIPA) in Rabat and a contributor to the Arab Reform Initiative.
Francesco obtained his PhD in Development Studies at the ISS is September 2024. Previously, he graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree "Crossing the Mediterranean: Towards Investment and Integration" (MIM; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and Université Paul Valery Montpellier) and has obtained his Bachelor's degree on International Relations and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Bologna. He also collaborated with the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Rabat as a junior expert, and worked as a consultant for local and international NGOs in Morocco.
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Work
- Francesco Colin (2024) - Articulating spaces for citizenship: Performing the right to petition Moroccan municipalities
- Francesco Colin (2024) - Social Accountability in Morocco: Recurring Pressures and Sporadic Concessions - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-51322-0_3
- Francesco Colin, Sylvia Bergh, Katharina Natter, Issam Cherrat & Ben Wagner (2024) - Morocco’s Governance of Cities and Borders: AI-Enhanced Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and Human Rights
- Francesco Colin (2023) - The Dark Side of the Digital Transition?: Assessing Digitalisation Policies and Practices in Morocco from a Data Protection Perspective - [link]
- Alfonso Casani & Francesco Colin (2023) - Evolving consensus around Moroccan-Israeli normalisation: a political space analysis - L'Année du Maghreb - doi: 10.4000/anneemaghreb.12718 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2023) - Trajectories of depoliticization and re-politicization: Petitioning to Moroccan municipalities - Mediterranean Politics - doi: 10.1080/13629395.2023.2289099 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2022) - Petitions in Municipal Action Plans: A chance to follow-up on the promises of participation? - [link]
- Francesco Colin, Sylvia Bergh, Ward Vloeberghs, Intissar Kherigi & Hicham Jadaoun (2022) - Powerful tool or passing trend? Meanings and practices of social accountability in the Arab world, and why they matter - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2021) - Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas - British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies - doi: 10.1080/13530194.2021.1981233 - [link]
- Francesco Colin (2020) - À la recherche de réponses : comment la loi relative au droit d’accès à l’information influence la recherche académique - [link]