Silvia Adamo

Silvia Adamo

Associate Professor

  • JUR- CEPRI - Centre for Private Governance

    Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

    Phone: +4535331405

Silvia Adamo is Associate Professor in Immigration Law and Integration Law. She is the recipient of the 2019 Young Resercher Fellowship by the Carlsberg Foundation (DKK 4,291,896) for her research project Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration (2020-2023). She is also a member of the Crown Princess Mary Center – Solving problems through research and partnership with a research project on foreign doctors in Denmark: Language, expectations and highly skilled international labour force, interdisciplinary research team at the University of Copenhagen (2021–2022).

Silvia Adamo received her Ph.D. in Law at the University of Copenhagen. She has studied law in Italy (Università di Pisa) and Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa), and completed her Cand. Jur./LL.M. in Denmark (Københavns Universitet). Silvia Adamo has held visiting fellowships at the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada (2006); Berkeley School of Law, University of California (2011); and the European University Institute, Florence (2012). Prior to starting her Ph.D. she interned at the European Commission.

Areas of expertise
Danish immigration law
Integration law and policy
Danish nationality law
Citizenship law and theory
Migration and integration in a private/public law context

Memberships
Associate Professor at CEPRI, Centre for Private Governace.
Editor, Retfærd, Nordic Journal of Law and Justice.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the NOS-HS Workshop Series: Transnational Childhoods, Transnational Rights? Nordic Responses to Global Challenges in the Field of Child Protection

Grants
International Network Program (287,574 DKK). Grant by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science for an international research network on integration of immigrants: TIGRE (2017-2019).

Three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship (2,240,000 DKK). Grant by the Danish Council for Independent Research (FSE) for a research project on immigration (2009–2012).

Consortium member in the international collaborative research project bEUcitizen: Barriers towards European Citizenship, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (2014–2016).

Awards for research from private foundations: Dr. Jur. Max Sørensens Mindefond, C.L. Davids Legat til minde om P.M. Gertz, Julie von Müllens Fond, Axel H’s Rejselegat og Augustinus Fonden.

Courses taught
BA courses: Legal system and legal method, Law, Morality and Politics, Danish constitutional law and EU constitutional law; Tort law and contract law
MA courses: Introduction to international migration law; integration law (at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen)

Contact
Email: Silvia.Adamo@jur.ku.dk or phone: + 45 - 35 33 14 05. I answer emails every day after 12 PM.

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Denmark

    Adamo, Silvia, 2021, Protecting unaccompanied children. Toward European convergence. Mucchi Editore, p. 49-67 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    What is 'A Successful Integration'? Family Reunification and the Rights of Children in Denmark

    Adamo, Silvia, 29 Mar 2016, In: Retfærd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift. 152, 1, p. 38-58 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    What comes first, language or work? Linguistic barriers for accessing the labour market

    Adamo, Silvia, 2018, EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action: Re-Thinking Legal and Factual Barriers in the Internal Market. de Vries, S., Ioratti, E., Guarda, P. & Pulice, E. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 227-241 15 p. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Pursuing Union citizenship rights: access to justice

    Adamo, Silvia, 2018, Civil Rights and EU Citizenship: Challenges at the Crossroads of the European, National and Private Spheres. De Vries, S., De Waele, H. & Granger, M-P. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 229-252 24 p. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Union citizens and the recognition of professional qualifications: where do we go from here?

    Adamo, Silvia & Binder, T., 2018, EU Citizens' Economic Rights in Action: Re-Thinking Legal and Factual Barriers in the Internal Market. de Vries, S., Ioratti, E., Guarda, P. & Pulice, E. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 37-59 23 p. (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EU Citizenship series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    What is the Point? – Policies on Immigration and the Language Issue in Denmark

    Adamo, Silvia, 2012, Helsinki: RECODE Online Working Paper No. 04, p. 1-20, 20 p. (RECODE WORKING PAPER SERIES; No. 04).

    Research output: Working paperResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Northern Exposure: The New Danish Model of Citizenship Test

    Adamo, Silvia, 2008, In: International Journal on Multicultural Societies. 10, 1, p. 10-28 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    The Legal Position of Migrants in Denmark: Assessing the Context around the "Cartoon Crisis"

    Adamo, Silvia, 2007, In: European Journal of Migration and Law. 9, 1, p. 1-24 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Is Green better than Blue? The Danish JHA opt-out and the Unilateral attempt to attrack highly skilled labour

    Wind, Marlene & Adamo, Silvia, 2015, In: European Journal of Migration and Law. 17, 4, p. 329-360 32 p., 3.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Multilingualism and Social Inclusion

    Marácz, L. (ed.) & Adamo, Silvia (ed.), 22 Dec 2017, In: Social Inclusion. 5, 4, p. 1-4 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Le système danois de protection sociale: équilibrer solidarité en Europe et immigration en temps de crise

    Adamo, Silvia, 2015, In: Revue Francaise des Affaires Sociales. 2015, 3, p. 159-180 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy

    Kjær, Anne Lise (ed.) & Adamo, Silvia (ed.), 2011, Aldershot: Ashgate. 227 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  13. Published

    Kontinental retspositivisme: Hans Kelsen og Norberto Bobbio

    Adamo, Silvia, 2011, Retsfilosofi : centrale tekster og temaer. Hammerslev, O. & Palmer Olsen, H. (eds.). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 223-244 22 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

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