Dr. Tina Magazzini is a political scientist interested in how categories of inclusion/exclusion are created and maintained across different settings in a comparative perspective. Her research focuses on tension between redistribution, recognition and representation, comparative and mixed methodologies, migration and integration policies, identity politics and the relationship between majorities, minorities and states. Currently affiliated to the Czech Academy of Sciences (Department of Mobility and Migration) and the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), she has carried out a wide range of consultancy and policy work for NGOs, UN agencies, the European Commission and the Council of Europe on ethnic, linguistic and religious minority rights.