Public-facing work

Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from, The Conversation, June 24, 2025

Rescue Amid Shifting Politics in the Central Mediterranean, Forced Migration Review, Issue 75 “Dangerous Journeys,” May 28, 2025

Externalized Asylum Processing, So-Called Safe Countries, and the Uncertain Future of the Italy-Albania Protocol, Border Criminologies Blog, January 15, 2025

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, Creative Migration Policy issue, 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 in Internazionale, 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, April 20, 2022

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 in Spanish, French and Arabic

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, “Epidemics, Labour and Mobility” issue, June 2020. Also in Spanish, Chinese, 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

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 reflection on my Summer 2017 fieldwork, September 22, 2017

La Pirogue: the Myth of Europe and the Realities of the Journey, review of La Pirogue screening, March 6, 2017

Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) and ‘Practices of Reception’, a review of Fuocoammare screening, February 6, 2017

No, Mr. President-Elect, You Are Mistaken: We Welcome Refugees at the Ohio State University, The Daily Kos, December 8, 2016