Journal articles, book chapters, and reviews
Migration Imaginaries: Wreckage, Ruination, and Recovery, in Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman (eds), Human Rights on the Move, The Ohio State University Press, pp. 27-44, 2024.
Choreographing Mobility and Human Rights: A Conversation with Momar Ndiaye, Eleanor Paynter, and Amy Shuman, in Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman (eds), Human Rights on the Move, The Ohio State University Press, pp. 45-55, 2024.
Creating Crises: Risk, Racialization, and the Migration-Security Nexus in Italy and the US, in Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Maddalena Marinari and Daniele Fiorentino (eds), Managing Migration in Italy and the United States, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 55-76, 2024.
Performing Border Externalisation: Media Deterrence Campaigns and Neoliberal Belonging, co-authored with Sara Riva, Geopolitics, vol. 29, issue 4, pp. 1272-1296, 2024.
Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe’s Southern Border, co-authored with Francesca Soliman, in Ana Vila-Freyer and Ibrahim Sirkeci (eds), Global Atlas of Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Migration Series, vol. 45, Transnational Press London, pp. 159-173, 2023.
Gendered Asylum in the Black Mediterranean: Two Nigerian Women’s Experiences of Reception in Italy, in R. Zapata-Barrero and I. Awad (eds), Migrations in the Mediterranean, IMISCOE Research Series, Springer, 2023.
“OutLaw Yard”: Reading Traces of Displacement as Testimonial Inscription, co-authored with Katrina M. Powell, Migration and Society, vol. 6, n. 1, pp. 87-104, 2023.
Review: Camilla Hawthorne’s Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean (Cornell University Press, 2022), Antipode Online, February 20, 2023.
Testimony on the Move: Navigating the Borders of (In)visibility with Migrant-Led Soundwalks, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 37, n. 1, pp. 129-152, 2022.
Writing against border imperialism: epistemologies of transit, Italian Studies in South Africa (special issue on Diversity, decolonization, and Italian studies), vol. 35, n. 1, pp. 92-96, 2022.
Border Crises and Migrant Deservingness: How the Refugee/Economic Migrant Binary Racializes Asylum and Affects Migrants’ Navigation of Reception, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 20, n. 2, pp. 293-306, 2022.
The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba's Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope), the minnesota review, in "migritude folio", issue 94, pp. 104-123, 2020.
Review: Stephanie Malia Hom's Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention (Cornell UP, 2019), Italian Studies, vol. 74, n. 4, 2019.
The Liminal Lives of Europe’s Transit Migrants, Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds (American Sociological Association), vol. 17, n. 2, pp. 40-45, 2018.
Autobiographical Docudrama as Testimony: Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 32, n. 3, pp. 659-666, 2017.
The Spaces of Citizenship: Mapping Personal and Colonial Histories in Contemporary Italy in Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono (My Home is Where I Am), European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 6, pp. 135-153, 2017.