Nicola Delvino Senior Researcher, Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity

Nicola Delvino is a Senior Researcher at the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity at COMPAS, University of Oxford, where his research focuses on EU and national laws and policies on irregular migration; and on local practices responding to the presence of migrants with irregular status.

While at COMPAS, Nicola has been working as a Human Rights Consultant for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – Regional Office for Europe (Brussels). He is currently leading a project researching laws and policies allowing “safe reporting” of crime by victims of crime with irregular status, and assessing the legal and political replicability in Europe of good practices from the USA. Nicola has been supporting research for two initiatives of the Global Exchange: the C-MISE initiative and the annual Autumn Academy.

Prior to joining COMPAS, Nicola worked and researched on asylum, migration and human rights policies in Europe for Brussels-based NGOs, in particular as the Executive Officer on Asylum and Migration of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office. He subsequently worked as a Justice & Home Affairs Officer in the political section of the British Embassy in Rome. Nicola holds a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Bari (Italy) and studied EU law at ULB Brussels (Belgium).

Topics

CitiesCivil SocietyEuropean UnionIllegalityPoliciesRightsWelfare