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Allison Petrozziello

Assistant Professor
EducationPhD (Global Governance): Laurier
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 556188

Spoken Languages

English, Spanish

Biography

Allison Petrozziello is Assistant Professor of Global Migration & Inequality at 91滴滴. Dr. Petrozziello is a global governance scholar specialized in gender and human-rights based approaches to the governance of migration and citizenship. Her academic work builds on over 15 years of experience in international research, teaching, and policy advocacy work, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, with stakeholders ranging from grassroots organizations to policymakers to the United Nations. She has consulted for UN Women, the International Labour Organization (ILO), Inter-American Development Bank, and the Association for Women鈥檚 Rights in Development (AWID), among others. At 91滴滴, she teaches courses in comparative and global politics for undergraduate programs in the Department of Politics and Public Administration as well as the PhD program in Policy Studies.

An interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Petrozziello鈥檚 research interests revolve around gender, migration, international development, human rights, and statelessness. She is committed to connecting research with policy practice to advance human and labour rights of the world鈥檚 most marginalized and to address governance concerns around identity documentation, irregular migration, (non)citizenship, and statelessness. Her work has informed United Nations policy recommendations by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Special Rapporteur on violence against women; UNICEF; UN Committees on the Rights of the Child, Migrant Workers, Racial Discrimination; and CEDAW; and the ILO. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation . Dr. Petrozziello鈥檚 research, as featured on 91滴滴鈥檚 Borders & Belonging podcast, examines global patterns of intersecting forms of social inequality which can make children of migrants and refugees stateless. Her academic work has been published in English and Spanish in journals, such as International Migration, Gender & Development, The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Migraci贸n y Desarrollo, Cultural Dynamics, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research.

Dr. Petrozziello is affiliated with the Bridging Divides research program on Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century (Citizenship and Participation theme); where she leads the project Birthing Canadian Citizens: Migrant Mothers鈥� Experiences Accessing Documentation and Citizenship for Children born in Canada and Abroad; the at Laurier鈥檚 International Migration Research Centre; and the Caribbean Migrants Observatory (, Dominican Republic). She holds a PhD in Global Governance from Wilfrid Laurier University/Balsillie School of International Affairs, an MA in International Development & Social Change from Clark University, and a BA in Women鈥檚 Studies from Smith College.

Articles

  • Petrozziello, A. J. (2025). . Journal of Human Rights, 1鈥�17. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2025.2477493
  • Petrozziello, A.J. (Forthcoming) 鈥淪treet-Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic.鈥� Social Policy & Administration, special issue on 鈥楾he Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond,鈥� 脡milien Fargues and Djordje Sredanovic, Eds.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. and Wooding, B. (Forthcoming) 鈥淚mpactos de la COVID-19 en la poblaci贸n haitiana y sus descendientes en la zona fronteriza de Rep煤blica Dominicana con Hait铆鈥� [COVID-19 Impacts on Haitian Migrants and their Descendants in the Dominican-Haitian Border Region]. Migraci贸n y Desarrollo.
  • Hennebry, J.L. and A.J. Petrozziello. 2019. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Migration 57 (6): 115-138.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. 2019. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 1(1): 136鈥�155.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. 2019. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Gender & Development, 27 (1): 31-47.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. 2019. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Migration 47 (1): 213-228, DOI: 10.1111/imig.12527.
  • Petrozziello, A. and B. Wooding. 2013. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power 25 (2): 183-205.
  • Petrozziello, A. 2011. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Gender & Development 19 (1): 53-67.

Chapters

  • Petrozziello, A.J. 2024. 鈥淚dentity documentation as development: How do migrants and their children figure?鈥� in Piper, N. and K. Datta, eds. The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. and J. Hennebry. (Forthcoming) 鈥淏uilding resilience through policy: The example of gender-responsive 鈥榠nclusive鈥� integration.鈥� Chap. 13 in Preston, V., J. Shields, and T. Bedard, eds. International Migration and Social Resilience: Individual and Collective Resistance. McGill-Queens University Press.
  • Hennebry, J., A.J. Petrozziello, and M. Walton-Roberts. (Forthcoming) 鈥淟earning to cope or coping to learn? A gender-responsive reading of international student resilience鈥� chap 7 in Ghosh, S., L. Veronis and M. Walton-Roberts, eds. Leaving to Learn: Mapping the place of resilience in the journeys of international students to Canada. University of British Columbia Press.
  • Petrozziello, A.J. 2023. 鈥淟a problematizaci贸n de las 鈥榩arturientas haitianas鈥� y otras estrategias de control fronterizo鈥� (Problematizing Haitian Women as 鈥楤irthers鈥� and Other Border Control Strategies). Chap 1 in Miradas desencadenantes: Voces que desaf铆an, Conferencias Dominicanas de Estudios de G茅nero, Instituto Tecnol贸gico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and UNHCR: Santo Domingo.
  • Brennan, D., N. Murray, and A.J. Petrozziello. 2021. 鈥淎sking the 鈥榦ther questions鈥�: Applying intersectionality to understand statelessness in Europe鈥� chap 16 in Bloom, T. and Kingston, L., eds. . Manchester Univ. Press.
  • Fine, J. and A. Petrozziello. 2017. 鈥淗aitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic鈥� in , edited by A.E. Eaton, S.J. Schurman and M. Chen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/ILR Press.

Technical Reports

  • Wooding, B. and A.J. Petrozziello. 2021. . Research Brief in Spanish & English, Caribbean Migrants Observatory. Santo Domingo, DR: Editora Buho.
  • Petrozziello, A. 2017. 鈥�.鈥� In The World鈥檚 Stateless Children. Ed. Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, 447-451. The Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.
  • Petrozziello, A. 2013. . UN Women. 

Dr. Allison Petrozziello鈥檚 research interests centre on gender, migration, international development, human rights, and statelessness. She is currently completing a project using intersectional feminist analysis to determine the global patterns of exclusion from birth registration which generate a risk of statelessness for children of migrants and refugees. A second line of inquiry focuses on gender and human rights-based approaches to migration governance. 

Dr. Petrozziello teaches courses on women and politics, comparative and global politics. 

  • 2024 Lynne Rienner Publishers Award for Best Dissertation, International Studies Association-Human Rights section
  • 2023
  • 2023 Gold Medal of Academic Excellence: Doctoral Level, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • 2023
  • 2022 , University of Toronto