Silvia Adamo

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Silvia Adamo is Associate Professor in Immigration Law and Integration Law. She is the recipient of the 2019 Semper Ardens: Accerelate Fellowship by the Carlsberg Foundation for her research project Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration (2020-2025). Silvia is affiliated with the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law (University of California, Los Angeles). She has also been a member of the Queen Mary Center - Knowledge. Partnerships. Change at UCPH 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 is born and raised in Italy, where she lived the first 21 years of her life. She has since lived in Denmark, Portugal, Canada, and the US. She was the first Italian to complete a LLM (Cand. Jur.) and later a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen, under the supervision of Henrik Zahle. Silvia is fluent in Danish, English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish, and is a native speaker of Italian.

She has studied law in Italy (Università di Pisa) and Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa). 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, Representation in Portugal.

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.

Grants
Semper Ardens: Accelerate (4.291.896 DKK) , Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration. Grant by the Carlsberg Foundation.
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: Immigration Law, Integration Law (at the Faculty of Law); 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.

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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-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 paper › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

12. Published

    Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy

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

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review