Angelica Puricelli

Angelica Puricelli is a third year PhD student in Political Studies at the GSSPS (Graduate School in Social and Political Science) of the University of Milan. She graduated in 2014 in Economics and Political Science at the University of Milan with a thesis titled “Austerity, reforms and political challenges: Southern European countries in crisis”. She was visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in the spring semester of 2016. Her research proposal includes forms of social protection – mainly social pensions and conditional cash transfers – as well as labour market policies for outsiders in Latina America, with particular attention to trade unions and social movements in the process of policy-making. Her research interests include welfare studies, informal employment, labour market studies, new mode of political representation of labour, Latin America politics.