The department promotes and carries out training activities for healthcare and welfare staff. It also conducts research on social and health policies addressing migrants’ needs. The research areas are:

  • the challenges welfare states have to take up whilst considering immigration, new models of solidarity and social inclusion, the evolution of the notion of citizenship and social rights;
  • the multilevel governance of social and health policies addressed to migrants: the question of the right to access health care and social assistance for legal residents, but also irregular and undocumented migrants;
  • the diverse conceptions of health and disease in global contexts;
  • the mutation of services’ demand and supply, with particular emphasis on welfare and healthcare services for the person;
  • the monitoring of migrants’ health conditions;
  • women migrants health conditions, particularly with regard to reproduction.

In 2015

ISMU’s Welfare and Health Sector won Daphne call for proposals with a project.  The focus of project proposal ISMU is going to develop  is the following: actions aimed to increasing intervention capacity of professionals operating involved in supporting migrant gender violence victims. For more details abiout the project, click here.




Head of Department
Nicola Pasini  nicola.pasini@unimi.it

Collaborators
Daniela Carrillo  d.carrillo@ismu.org
Cecilia Gallotti  c.gallotti@ismu.org
Rosalia Lombardi   l.lombardi@ismu.org
Veronica Merotta  v.merotta@ismu.org
Armando Pullini   a.pullini@ismu.org