Dr Alessia Passarelli (b. 1979) holds a PhD in sociology from Trinity College Dublin where she investigated the integration policies and practices of Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy. She graduated in cultural anthropology at University 'La Sapienza' in Rome with a thesis on Romanian Roma people in Rome. She has been working on migration, religion, ethnic minorities and integration issues since 2005: previously by implementing and coordinating projects at the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME) and later by being part of the research team of the Trinity Immigration Initiative Project at Trinity College. Currently she collaborates with the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI) researching the integration of first and second generation Protestant migrants in religious communities and in the wider society. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on migration, religion and integration.
