Allison Petrozziello
Allison Petrozziello is an Assistant Professor of Global Migration and Inequality in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. She 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.
Allison's research examines global patterns of intersecting forms of social inequality which can make children of migrants and refugees stateless. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her award-winning dissertation Birth Registration as Bordering Practice: A Feminist Analysis of Migration Governance and the Production of Statelessness. (external link)
Selected Publications
Petrozziello, A.J. (2024). Identity documentation as development: How do migrants and their children figure? (external link) In N. Piper & K. Datta, The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 137-150). Elgar.
Petrozziello, A. J. (2025). Intersectionality as method for human rights research: Identifying who is made stateless and how through UN treaty body reviews (external link) . Journal of Human Rights, 1–17. doi: 10.1080/14754835.2025.2477493
Petrozziello, A. J. (2025). Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic. Social Policy & Administration, 59(4), 666-678. (external link)