Dr. Gabriele Abbondanza is Marie Curie Fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain); and Associate Researcher at both the University of Sydney (Australia) and the Italian Institute of International Affairs – IAI (Italy). His research focuses on Australian and Italian foreign policy; irregular migration; the Indo-Pacific; and middle power and great power theory.Dr. Simone Battiston is Senior Lecturer in history and politics at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). His research examines different aspects of post-war Italian migration, with a particular attention to the Australian context: external voting behaviour, history and memory of radical migrants, and migrant media history.
