Public Scholarship
Podcast Co-founder and Host: Migration: A World on the Move. Episodes available on Spotify.
Media Deterrence Campaigns: Border Externalisation and Neoliberal Belonging, co-authored with Sara Riva, Border Criminologies Blog, November 6, 2023.
Beyond Numbers: Confronting Europe's Broken Border System, The Globe Post, May 30, 2023.
‘I’m not a refugee, I’m a person’: Rethinking Power and Community in Humanitarian Contexts, co-authored with Giovanni Fontana and Dina Pasic of Second Tree, Routed Magazine issue 21 on "Creative Migration Policy", March 2023.
A court case against migrant activists in Italy offers a reminder – not all refugees are welcome in Europe, The Conversation, May 13, 2022. Italian translation published by the weekly magazine Internazionale on May 19, 2022.
The U.K. wants to send refugees to Rwanda. That’s become a trend, co-authored with Christa Kuntzelman and Rachel Beatty Riedl for the Washington Post, Monkey Cage, April 20, 2022.
Do border walls prevent migration?, appearance on the news program Roundtable, TRT World, September 20, 2021.
Death on the Central Mediterranean: 2013-2020, co-authored with Annalisa Camilli, The New Humanitarian, January 12, 2021.
Seeking asylum in Italy: assessing risks and options, Forced Migration Review 65, "recognising refugees" feature, Nov. 2020, pp. 50-51. Also available in Spanish, French and Arabic.
Review: The Black Mediterranean Collective's The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship (Palgrave, 2021), Antipode Online, November 8, 2021.
Translation: The Two of Me (Io siamo in due) by Gabriella Kuruvilla in M. Orton, G. Parati and R. Kubati (eds.), Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021.
Border Agency Recruitment: Circulating Narratives that Criminalize Asylum and Erase Border Violence, co-authored with Sara Riva, Discover Society, October 2020.
‘Have I really survived?’: On home, refuge, and quarantine in Rome, co-authored with Khaled Karri, Routed Magazine issue 10 on 'Epidemics, Labour and Mobility,' June 2020. Also available in Spanish (at Routed) and Chinese (at The Paper) and with the Coronavirus and Mobility Forum of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS).
EU Must Stop Equating Protecting Borders With Asylum Management, The Globe Post, March 5, 2020.
Tunisia: North Africa's overlooked migration hub, co-authored with Annalisa Camilli, The New Humanitarian, January 22, 2020.
Closing the Vučjak Camp doesn’t resolve the humanitarian crisis for migrants in Bosnia, co-authored with Annalisa Camilli, openDemocracy, December 13, 2019.
The White Readymade and the Black Mediterranean: Authoring “Barca Nostra”, co-authored with Nicole Miller, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 22, 2019.
Translation: Liquid Border, excerpt from Annalisa Camilli's The Law of the Sea (La legge del mare, Rizzoli, 2019), The New Inquiry, August 20, 2019.
Janet Biggs: Overview Effect, co-authored with Nicole Miller, The Brooklyn Rail, Jul. 2019.
Italy’s Shutdown of Huge Migrant Center Feeds Racist Campaign to Close Borders, The Globe Post, July 16, 2019.
Europe’s refugee crisis explains why border walls don’t stop migration, The Conversation, January 30, 2019.
Transit Migration in Europe: Methods and Dialogues, a fieldwork reflection, September 22, 2017.
Podcast host, Human Rights in Transit: Precarious Journeys: Transit at EU Borders, with Kathryn Metz; Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Dynamics of Mediterranean Migration and Reception: What Kind of Crisis? For Whom?, with Vicki Squire;Rethinking Representation in Diaspora, with Qorsho Hassan and Ruth Smith
La Pirogue: the Myth of Europe and the Realities of the Journey, a review of a showing and discussion of the 2012 film La Pirogue, March 6, 2017.
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) and ‘Practices of Reception’, a review of a showing and discussion of the 2016 film Fuocoammare, February 6, 2017.
No, Mr. President-Elect, You Are Mistaken: We Welcome Refugees at the Ohio State University, The Daily Kos, December 8, 2016.