About

Roberta Perna is permanent researcher at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC). Prior to that, she was post-doctoral fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid (2022-2023), Marie Sklodowska-Curie researcher at the University of Liège (CEDEM, ULiege, 2021-2022), post-doctoral researcher “Juan de la Cierva” at IPP-CSIC (2019-2021) and researcher at the Forum for International and European Research on Immigration (FIERI, 2018-2019). She holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Turin. Her research interests include comparative migration and healthcare policies and politics, EU policies and social citizenships, street-level bureaucracy and the construction of migrants’ deservingness of social protection. Since 2020, she is co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Comparative Politics, European Union, Government, Migration, Policy Analysis, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Policy, Welfare State, Political Sociology, Immigration, Qualitative, Agenda-Setting, Comparative Perspective, Decision Making, Experimental Design, Policy Implementation, Solidarity, Southern Europe, Survey Experiments, Policy-Making

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Migration and Ethnicity
• Political Economy and Welfare State Politics
• Southern European Politics