Andrea Valzania is associate professor in sociology at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Science at the University of Siena. From 2007 to 2015 he was a consultant on social policies for the Regione Toscana. He has published books and articles on the role of migration processes (with particular focus on Chinese migrations), the changes of welfare and health public systems, the growth of social inequalities and poverty, the changes and the precarization of work, in Italy and Tuscany.
His current works are mainly focused on the analysis of poverty and food poverty, the policies to fight against them and the process of life precarization under contemporary capitalism.