Andrea Pettrachin

Andrea Pettrachin, PhD, is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Padova, Italy. He holds a PhD in Politics, awarded in 2020 by the University of Sheffield, UK, supervised by Prof. Andrew Geddes. He has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher on five European research projects at the European University Institute, Collegio Carlo Alberto, the University of Turin, and the University of Bologna.

His research focuses primarily on migration policy and governance across different levels of government. He is particularly interested in the formulation and adoption of policy in the field of migration, as well as in the links between policymaking processes and politicisation dynamics in this field.

As of November 2025, he has published a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan titled The Multi-Layered Governance of Migration in Italy: Policy Actors, Networks, and the Shaping of the Refugee ‘Crisis’ and 21 articles in international academic journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, Policy Sciences, Policy Studies, Governance, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, and several others. He has also contributed to several academic blogs, including the LSE EUROPP Blog, The Loop — the ECPR Blog, the Oxford Compass Blog, the EUI blog Debate Migration, and the MIDEQ Blog. In 2025, he was awarded the Lasswell Prize for the best article published in Policy Sciences, for the article “Beyond Evidence-Based Policymaking? Exploring Knowledge Formation and Source Effects in US Migration Policymaking,” which appeared in Policy Sciences 57(1): 3–28.