Mar11:0012:30Via Cesarotti 10/12 - aula assegnistiPrima di presentarsi a ricevimento gli studenti sono invitati a scrivere un'email all'indirizzo francesco.cerchiaro@unipd.it.

Francesco Cerchiaro is an FWO senior fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) with a project on the role of mixed couples’ associations in the public sphere (in Italy, France and Belgium). At CeSO he holds a BA course "Culture, Identity and Alterity".Scientific interests and backgroundFrancesco Cerchiaro is a cultural sociologist with a specific interest in the intersection of family, migration and religion. His research is characterized by the use of qualitative methods, in particular of ‘life stories’ and ethnographic observation. His focus on mixed families and, in particular, on Christian-Muslim families, represents a key to examining the wider social changes related to family, Muslim migration and religious pluralism in Europe. In Italy he was also involved in research on second-generations of immigrants and the role of schools in the debate on citizenship.Francesco is currently an FWO senior fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), KU Leuven, Belgium, with a project on the role of mixed couples’ associations in the public sphere (in Italy, France and Belgium).Previously, from February 2018 until February 2020, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ku Leuven. With the project entitled “ReMix - Christian-Muslim families dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life: Religious reconstruction in religiously mixed marriages”, he investigated the daily life of Christian-Muslim couples in Belgium and France.Francesco has a PhD in Social Sciences (2013) and Bachelor’s (2005) and Master’s (2008) degrees in Political Science, International Relations and Human Rights from the University of Padua. In Padua, at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), he worked as a researcher and taught a course on "The Imaginary of alterity" from 2016 until 2018.

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Selected publicationsPublications on scientific peer-review journals:Cerchiaro, F., (2021). “When I told my parents that I was going to marry a Muslim…” ‘Christian-Muslim’ couples facing family opposition in Italy, France and Belgium, in Therrien C., La Gall J., Cerchiaro F., (Eds.) Mixed Muslim/non-Muslim families: couple’s social perception and majority/minority groups relations, Special Issue, Social Compass, (forthcoming 2021).Cerchiaro, F. and Odasso, L., (2021). ‘Why do we have to circumcise our son?’ Meanings behind male circumcision in the life stories of mixed couples with a Muslim partner, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1926941Cerchiaro, F. and Houtman, D., (2021). “Stage Fright and Romanticism in Il Giro del Mondo”, Annals of Tourism Research, 89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103201Cerchiaro, F. (2020). Dissonant Masculinities? Migration, emotions and masculinities in marriages between Italian women and Moroccan men living in Italy, Journal of Gender Studies, (online first, 24 February 2020). doi: 10.1080/09589236.2020.1730162Cerchiaro, F. (2020). Identity loss or identity re-shape? Religious identification among the offspring of ‘Christian–Muslim’couples. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 35(3), 503-521. doi: 10.1080/13537903.2020.1839250Cerchiaro, F. (2019). Fighting for What? Couples’ Communication, Parenting and Social Activism: The Case Study of a “Christian-Muslim” Families’ Association in Brussels (Belgium). Religions, 10(4), 270. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040270Cerchiaro, F. (2019). ‘In the name of the children’: mixed couples’ parenting analysed through their naming practices. Identities, 26(1), 51-68. (online first, 27 July 2017). doi: 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1353314Cerchiaro F., (2016). Between recognition and betrayal. The migrant man in the mixed couple: the management of masculinity(ies), Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture, 5, 53-78.Cerchiaro F., (2016). ‘Coppia mista? In che senso?’. Un’analisi della riflessività dei partner di coppie miste rispetto al discorso sulla differenza, [’Mixed couple? In what sense?’ An analysis on the reflexivity of mixed couples’ partners concerning the discourse on difference]. Quaderni di Sociologia, 72 (3), 165-184. doi: 10.4000/qds.1585Cerchiaro F., Houtman D., Aupers S., (2015). Christian-Muslim couples in the Veneto region, northeastern Italy. Dealing with religious pluralism in everyday family life. Social Compass, 62 (1), 43–60. doi: 10.1177/0037768614561151Edited volumes/Special Issues:Therrien C., La Gall J., Cerchiaro F., (Eds.) Mixed Muslim/non-Muslim families: couple’s social perception and majority/minority groups relations, Special Issue, Social Compass, (forthcoming 2021).Therrien C., La Gall J., Cerchiaro F., (Eds.) Mixed Muslim/non-Muslim families: Intergenerational transmission and offspring identifications, Special Issue, Social Compass, (forthcoming 2021).Book chapters:Cerchiaro F., (2020). Single, dual, beyond: Ethnic, racial and religious self-identification among mixed individuals raised in Christian-Muslim families in Italy, in Le Gall J., Therrien C., Geoffrion K., (Eds.), Identities and (trans)nationalism in mixed families: transmission, agency and social constraints, London, Routledge.Monograph/Book:Cerchiaro F., (2016). Amori e confini. Le coppie miste tra islam, educazione dei figli e vita quotidiana. [Love and borders. Mixed couples

My research is characterized by the use of qualitative methods, in particular of ‘life stories’ and ethnographic observation. My focus on mixed families and, in particular, on Christian-Muslim families, represent a key to examining the wider social changes related to family, Muslim migration and religious pluralism in Europe. In Italy I was also involved in research on second-generations of immigrants and the role of schools in the debate on citizenship.Next to my research on mixed families I have also conducted ethnographic fieldwork on cultural tourism, which has recently resulted in an article published in Annals of Tourism Research. Apparently far from my research on mixed families, this article demonstrates instead my long term research vision which aims to combine the study of cultural change and the way people re-signify symbols and cultural practices. With this new line of research I intend to study the romantic turn in the West as it plays out in realms like religion, tourism and sociology itself.