irene peano (1E17-3823-67F4)

Curriculum Vitae

irene peano

Irene Peano holds a PhD in Social Anthropology awarded by the University of Cambridge in 2011, an MPhil in Social Anthropological Research (2006) and a BA Honours (First Class) in Social Anthropology (Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos, 2004), also awarded by the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation, titled 'Ambiguous bonds: A contextual study of Nigerian sex labour in Italy' and supervised by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, is the result of 18 months of fieldwork, of which 12 in Benin City (Nigeria) and 6 in Turin (Italy), and addresses the play between regimes of transparency and practices of secrecy in relation to anti-trafficking dispositifs and relations of debt bondage. Between 2012 and 2014 she was Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Bologna, where she subsequently held another postdoctoral fellowship between 2015 and 2016, always working in collaboration with Sandro Mezzadra as the Scientist in Charge. During this period, she focused on forms of migrant resistance and on the analysis of changing and multiple forms of governance in the EU border regime, starting from the experiences of Nigerian sex workers in administrative detention and then exploring other domains, particularly those of migrant farm labour. In 2015, thanks to a COST grant, she researched the articulation of immigration and prostitution regulations and their effects in the Spanish context, for comparative purposes. She also engaged in an analysis of the relations between sex work and other forms of migrant labour, especially as they obtain in Italian agro-industrial enclaves, from the point of view both of their governance and of their possibilities for autonomous subjectivation. This led her to enlarge the field of research to include also Eastern European farm and sex workers, particularly from Romania. Between 2016 and 2017 she held a 3-month visiting professorship at the University of Bucharest Research Institute, during which she also engaged in field research on these topics, managing to retrace some of the networks of farm-labour recruitment between Romania and Italy. From March 2017 until June 2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, within the ERC project 'The colour of labour: The racialised lives of migrants'. In this period, she has focused on the triangulations between subjectivity, genealogy and (spatial, racialised, gendered, legal, symbolic) containment as they relate to the control of migrant farm and sex labour in Italian agro-industrial enclaves. Since 2021, thanks to a grant from the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT), she is a Research Fellow at the same institute, where she is currently completing a monograph on the genealogies of spatial forms of containment in agro-industrial enclaves, and resistances to them.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: irene peano

Citation names

peano, irene

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1E17-3823-67F4
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7085-0911

Email addresses

irene.peano@ics.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Av. Prof. Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9 , 1600-189, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://ulisboa.academia.edu/IrenePeano (Social media)
https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/pessoa/irene-peano (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Creole and pidgin based on English (Other)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Bini	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2006/10/01 - 2011/07/23 Concluded	Social Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom "Ambiguous bonds: A contextual study of Nigerian sex labour in Italy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved with no corrections
2005/10/01 - 2006/09/30 Concluded	Master of Philosophy Social Anthropological Research (Master) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom "Sexuality, money and morals: Trafficking between domains" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction (top grade in the year)
2001/10/01 - 2004/06/26 Concluded	Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos (Bachelor) Major in Social Anthropology University of Cambridge, United Kingdom "Wrestling Masculinities - Gendered Practices in and around Senegalese Arenas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	First class

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/06/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

2017/03/01 - 2021/02/28	Postdoc (Research)	European Research Council, Belgium
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2016/12/01 - 2017/02/28	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universitatea din Bucure¿ti, Romania
	Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, Romania
2015/04/01 - 2016/03/31	Postdoc (Research)	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy

2012/07/23 - 2014/07/22	Postdoc (Research)	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2007/10 - 2008/09	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology, United Kingdom
	University of Benin, Nigeria

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2011/07/01 - 2011/11/30	Affiliated Post-Doctoral Researcher - Consultant for the drafting of case studies on the impact of research	University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology, United Kingdom

2010/10/01 - 2011/06/30	DataTrain Project Officer, Part-time (research on data management in social anthropology)	Cambridge University Library, United Kingdom

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/06/01 - Current	Ambiguous bonds, ten years on: A longitudinal, collaborative and engaged study of sex trafficking from Nigeria to Europe 2020.01002.CEECIND/CP1615/CT0009 Researcher

Outputs

Publications

Book	Le Petitcorps, Colette; Macedo, Marta; Peano, Irene. Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. Cuppini, Niccolò; Peano, Irene; peano, irene. Un mondo logistico. Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione. Ledizioni. 2019.
Book chapter	peano, irene. "Before and after Fascist bonifiche: Spaces of occlusion and recursion in contemporary Tavoliere". In New anthropologies of Italy: Politics, history and culture. Berghan, 2024. In press peano, irene. "Now go figure: On transgressions and trespasses in and from the University". In Figure It Out: The Art of Living through Systems Failures. 2024. Peano, Irene. "“New Slavery”, Modern Marronage and the Multiple Afterlives of Plantations in Contemporary Italy". Springer, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-08537-6_11 Peano, Irene; Macedo, Marta; Le Petitcorps, Colette. "Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times". Springer, 2023. 10.1007/978-3-031-08537-6_1 Macedo, Marta; peano, irene; Le Petitcorps, Colette. "Colonial Plantations and Their Afterlives: Legal Disciplines, Indian Historiographies and Their Lessons. An Interview with Rana Behal". In Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives, 339-349. Springer International Publishing, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-08537-6_13 Esposito, Francesca; Murtaza, Ali; Peano, Irene; Vacchiano, Francesco; Murtaza, Alí; Francesca Esposito; Alí Murtaza; Irene Peano; Francesco Vacchiano. "Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes". In Citizenship Studies, 1-17. Routledge, 2022. 10.1080/13621025.2020.1784642 peano, irene. "O Género da Logística, a Logística do Género: Subjetividades, Biopolítica e Extração nas Cadeias Produtivas". In A Produção do Mundo: Problemas Logísticos e Sítios Críticos.. Portugal: Outro Modo, 2022. Published peano, irene. "Gendering logistics: Subjectivities, biopolitics and extraction in supply chains". Bologna, Italy, 2021. Published peano, irene; gambino, evelina; milesi, floriano; benvegnù, carlotta; Cuppini, Niccolò; frapporti, mattia; pirone, maurilio. "Introduction: Reading Logistical Operations Through the Prism of Gender". In Gendering Logistics: Feminist approaches for the Analysis of Supply-Chain Capitalism. 2021. Peano, Irene; peano, irene. "Ways of making a human otherwise: After-ethnography with migrant labourers in Italian agro-industrial enclaves". In Ways of Making. CITCEM. Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória, 2020. In press Peano, Irene. "The (im)possibilities of transgression, or, reflections on the awkward relation between Strathern and queer politics". In Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern, edited by Posocco, Silvia; Boyce, Paul. Taylor & Francis, 2019. Published Peano, Irene. "Supply chain affettive tra agro-industria e migrazioni, contenimento e rifugio". In Un Mondo Logistico: Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione, edited by peano, irene; Cuppini, Niccolò. Ledizioni, 2019. Published peano, irene; Cuppini, Niccolò. "Introduzione". In Un Mondo Logistico: Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione. 2019. Published peano, irene. "Migrants' struggles? Rethinking citizenship, anti-racism and labour precarity through migration politics in Italy". In Where are the unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, edited by Lazar, Sian. London: Zed Books, 2017. Published peano, irene. "Emergenc(i)es in the fields: Affective composition and counter-camps against the exploitation of migrant farm labour in Italy". In Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice, edited by Alexandrakis, Othon. Indiana University Press, 2016. Published peano, irene; Avramopoulou, Eirini. "Introduction. Challenging pornography, challenged by pornography: from monstrous tactics to enactments of poiesis". In Porno-graphics and porno-tactics: Desire, affect and representation in pornography, edited by peano, irene; Avramopoulou, Eirini. 2016. Published peano, irene. "Bondage and help: Genealogies and hopes in trafficking from Nigeria to Italy". In Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa, edited by Quirk, Joel; Wigneswaran, Darshan. Africa World Press, 2013. Published
Book review	peano, irene. "Stacey Vanderhurst. 2022. Unmaking migrants: Nigeria’s campaign to end human trafficking. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 210". (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13217. 10.1111/imig.13217 peano, irene. "Adelante by Noam Osband". 23, 1 (2017): Published peano, irene. "Dewey, S. and T. Zheng 2013. Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches.". 4, 1 (2017): peano, irene. "Vendere e comprare sesso. Tra piacere, lavoro e prevaricazione, by Giulia Garofalo Geymonat". 110, (2015): peano, irene. "Intimate activism: The struggle for sexual rights in postrevolutionary Nicaragua, by Cymene Howe". 21, 3 (2015): peano, irene. "Migrants in translation: Caring and the logics of difference in contemporary Italy, by Cristiana Giordano". 21, 4 (2015):
Conference paper	Peano, Irene. "Genealogies of containment: migrant labour,bonifica integraleand bio-carceral regimes in an Italian agro-industrial enclave". 2022. 10.1051/shsconf/202213602009
Edited book	peano, irene; gambino, evelina; benvegnù, carlotta; Cuppini, Niccolò; frapporti, mattia; milesi, floriano; pirone, maurilio. Gendering Logistics: Feminist approaches for the Analysis of Supply-Chain Capitalism. 2021. peano, irene. Porno-graphics and porno-tactics: Desire, affect and representation in pornography. New York: Punctum. 2016.
Journal article	Irene Peano. "The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: Querying paradigms through the politics of Made-in-Italy agribusiness operations". Anthropological Theory (2024): https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996241239767. 10.1177/14634996241239767 Peano, Irene. "Review: Belloni, Milena. The big gamble: the migration of Eritreans to Europe. x, 228 pp., maps, figs., illus., bibliogr. Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2019, £30.00 (paper)". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61470. 10.1111/1467-9655.14035 Peano, Irene. "Dentro gli archivi dell’imbrigliamento, leggendo le fughe in controluce". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61469. Peano, Irene; Sacchi, Martino. "Editoriale: Lavoro, mobilità, migrazioni. Ripartire dal concetto di salariato imbrigliato". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61467. Peano, Irene. "Imbrigliamento e fuga nell’Italia contemporanea. Il lavoro agricolo dipendente nel Tavoliere e nella Piana di Gioia Tauro in prospettiva genealogica". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61468. Peano, Irene. "Spatiotemporal Stratifications: Engaging Containment and Resistance in Italian Agrifood Districts". (2022): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/57483. 10.1215/08992363-9937297 Peano, Irene; Irene Peano. "Within and Against Racial Segregation". Lateral (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51633. 10.25158/L10.2.10 Peano, Irene; Irene Peano. "Turbulences in the encampment archipelago: conflicting mobilities between migration, labour and logistics in Italian agri-food enclaves". Mobilities 16 2 (2021): 212-223. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51616. 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885843 Peano, Irene. "Spectres of Eurafrica in an Italian agroindustrial enclave". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/55332. Peano, Irene. "Conflitti e sinergie della logistica: Enclavi agro-industriali, migrazioni e ZES". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/46993. Peano, Irene. "Ethno-racialisation at the intersection of food and migration regimes: Reading processes of farm-labour substitution against the grain of migration policies in Italy (1980-present)". (2020): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/47555. 10.2478/scr-2020-0006 Peano, Irene. "Gender, Utopias and the Savage Slot: The Role of Anthropology in the (De)Construction of a Concept". ETHICS IN PROGRESS 10 1 (2019): 112-128. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/40262. 10.14746/eip.2019.1.9 Puglia, Ezio; Peano, Irene; peano, irene. "Tony Duvert: A political and theoretical overview". Whatever: A transdisciplinary journal of queer theories and studies 1 1 (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37642. Published Peano, Irene; Peano, I.. "Global care-commodity chains: Labour re/production and agribusiness in the district of Foggia, southeastern Italy". Sociologia del Lavoro 146 (2017): 24-39. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/32219. 10.3280/SL2017-146002 Casas-Cortes, M.; Cobarrubias, S.; De Genova, N.; Garelli, G.; Grappi, G.; Heller, C.; Hess, S.; et al. "New Keywords: Migration and Borders". Cultural Studies 29 1 (2015): 55-87. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84920138462&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/09502386.2014.891630 Peano, I.. "Opaque loves: Governance and escape in the intimate sphere of Nigerian sex workers". Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa 3 (2013): 359-384. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897749993&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3240/75030 peano, irene. "Migrant Nigerian women in bonded sexual labour: The subjective effects of criminalisation and structural suspicion, beyond the trafficking paradigm". Africa e Mediterraneo 79 2 (2013): 44-47. peano, irene. "Escaping the exception: Migrant sex workers between subjectification and excess". greek review of social research 140-141 (2013): Peano, I.. "Excesses and double standards: Migrant prostitutes, sovereignty and exceptions in contemporary Italy". Modern Italy 17 4 (2012): 419-432. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868265842&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1080/13532944.2012.706994 peano, irene. "Subjects and Politics in Excess of Exception: Notes on Migrant Dissent". Anthropology News 4 (2012): peano, irene. "Wrestling masculinities: Metaphors of purity and metonymical bodies in Senegalese arenas". The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 27 2 (2007): 36-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x99001003004. Published • 10.1177/1097184x99001003004 peano, irene; filippucci, paola. "BOUNDARY CROSSINGS: A FESTSCHRIFT IN MEMORY OF SUE BENSON: INTRODUCTION". The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 27 2 (2007):
Journal issue	peano, irene; Sacchi, Martino. "Lavoro, Mobilità, Migrazioni. Ripartire dal concetto di salariato imbrigliato". Cartografie Sociali 15 (2023): Published
Magazine article	peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Where Have Eastern Europeans Gone? Made-in-Italy Agribusiness, Mobility Control and the Great Resignation", LeftEast, 2023, https://lefteast.org/where-have-eastern-europeans-gone-made-in-italy-agribusiness-mobility-control-and-the-great-resignation/. peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Gdje su nestali istocni Europljani? Agrobiznis Made-in-Italy, kontrola mobilnosti i velika ostavka", Mašina, 2023, https://www.masina.rs/gdje-su-nestali-istocni-europljani-agrobiznis-made-in-italy-kontrola-mobilnosti-i-velika-ostavka/. peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Gdje su nestali istocni Europljani? Agrobiznis Made-in-Italy, kontrola mobilnosti i velika ostavka", Radnicka prava, 2023, https://radnickaprava.org/tekstovi/clanci/gdje-su-nestali-istocni-europljani-agrobiznis-made-in-italy-kontrola-mobilnosti-i-velika-ostavka. peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Nagy Kivonulás: a kelet-európaiak eltunése az olasz mezogazdálkodásból", Mérce, 2023 peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Kudi znikli skh¿dno¿vropeits¿? ¿tal¿is-kii agrob¿znes, kontrol- za mob¿l-n¿stiu ta "velike zv¿l-nennia"", Spilne/Commons, 2023, https://commons.com.ua/uk/transnatsionalna-mihratsiya-kudy-znykly-skhidnoyevropeytsi/. peano, irene; busca, chiara. "K"de izcheznaha iztochnoevropejcite? SelskostopanskiJat biznes v ItaliJa, kontrol"t nad mobilnostta i masovata ostavka", dVersia, 2023, https://dversia.net/7462/elmo-migration-iztochnoevropeytsi/. peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Unde s-au dus est-europenii? Agrobusiness-ul made-in-Italy, controlul mobilita¿ii muncitorilor ¿i marea retragere", Platzforma, 2023 peano, irene; busca, chiara. "Unde s-au dus est-europenii? Agrobusiness-ul made-in-Italy, controlul mobilita¿ii muncitorilor ¿i marea retragere", Gazeta de Arta Politica , 2023 peano, irene; busca, chiara. "K"de izcheznaha iztochnoevropejcite? SelskostopanskiJat biznes v ItaliJa, kontrol"t nad mobilnostta i masovata ostavka", Baricada Bulgaria, 2023
Newspaper article	peano, irene. "La scatola nera dove indagare il potere: Recensione a Zapruder n. 46, Block the box", ilmanifesto, 2019
Online resource	peano, irene. Mondragone: Behind the scenes of long-announced, recurrent dramas. 2020. https://dversia.net/6225/mondragone-dramas/. peano, irene. Operai agricoli, virus e regolarizzazione: Cosa nascondono i numeri ufficiali e le proposte di sanatoria. 2020. https://www.rivistailmulino.it/news/newsitem/index/Item/News:NEWS_ITEM:5198. peano, irene. Missing farm workers in pandemic times: Is it really "the virus's fault"? The view from Italy. 2020. https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/missing-farm-workers-in-pandemic-times-is-it-really-the-virus-fault-the-view-from-italy%EF%BB%BF/. peano, irene. Gendering logistics: Subjectivities, biopolitics and extraction in supply chains. 2019. http://www.intotheblackbox.com/articoli/gendering-logistics-subjectivities-biopolitics-and-extraction-in-supply-chains/?fbclid=IwAR0TmV0ewvUAC5wehggT1ZAF7M5osL81LPutSbAvYTJqihXtZGBeZzz_Ch4. peano, irene. Containment, resistance, flight: Migrant labour in the agro-industrial district of Foggia, Italy. 2017. https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/irene-peano/containment-resistance-flight-migrant-labour-in-agro-industrial-district-o. peano, irene; Tazzioli, Martina; De Genova, Nicholas. Europe / Crisis: New Keywords of 'the Crisis' in and of 'Europe'. 2016. http://nearfuturesonline.org/europecrisis-new-keywords-of-crisis-in-and-of-europe/.
Thesis / Dissertation	peano, irene. "Ambiguous bonds: A contextual study of Nigerian sex labour in Italy". PhD, 2011.
Translation	peano, irene. Della non-scalabilità. Italian translation of Tsing, A. 2012. On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales (Common Knowledge 18(3): 505-524). In Cuppini, N. and I. Peano (eds.) Un Mondo Logistico: Sguardi critici su lavoro, migrazioni, politica e globalizzazione. Milan: Ledizioni.. 2019. Published
Working paper	peano, irene. 2018. "Nigeria: Genealogies of an elusive polity and their social consequences".

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/01/30	A space on the side of the port: Inhabiting the ruins of infrastructural projects	Desire and Denial: on constructing and contesting infrastructures
2024/11/28	A place by the side of the port: Recursive displacements in the ruins of infrastructural projects	Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post-)colonial Present
2024/11/08	Whose illegal acts? Thinking through engagement, relative privilege and practices of solidarity	Figure It Out: The Art of Living through System Failure
2024/09/19	On the ruins of rural urbanism: Reading Italian bonifiche and their legacies through the lens of mobility control, racism and extraction	School of Architecture, Syracuse University, Florence
2024/07/18	Camp, prison, settler colony: Italy’s agro-industrial encampments between ruin sedimentation and excess	European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biannual confer-ence, “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”,
2024/05/22	Bridling, racialization and containment: Paradigms of migrant-labor control	International Conference on the Platform Economy University of Zaragoza
2024/05/09	Made in Italy: Contemporary archaeologies of agribusiness’ encampment archipelago	Beyond Inhabitation Lab Spring Seminars series Department of Geography, University of Turin
2023/09/27	“Decolonising the Commune”	Planetary Commune/La Comuna Planetaria University of Chile/“The Commune as an expansive planetary political form: A Digital and Transnational Project”, sponsored by the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (Santiago, Chile)
2023/05/26	“Thinking and living through the surrounds: Liminalities and extensions beyond inhabitability”	What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life Urban Transitions Hub, ISCTE (Lisbon University Institute) and ICS (Social Science Institute), University of Lisbon
2022/10/10	“’New Slavery’, modern marronage and the multiple afterlives of plantations in contemporary Italy”	Lunchtime seminar , Research Institute on Migration and Mobilities/ERC Project “Modern Marronage? The pursuit and Practice of Freedom in the Contemporary World”, University of Bristol
2022/07/01	“(Il)legal debt chains and their temporalities: Multiple experiences of bondage in the life trajectories of migrant Nigerian women”)	Exploited, criminalized, or protected? Conflicting categorisations and subjective experiences of migrants in Europe across multiple temporalities International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) (Oslo)
2022/06/21	“Genealogies of Italy’s current ‘green-factory’ labour arrangements (1922-present)”	Organising and Practicing Seasonal Labour: Rural Livelihoods, Mobility and Regulation (1920s-1940s and Today), Rural History Conference Uppsala University
2022/04/29	"Per una genealogia dell’imbrigliamento del lavoro agricolo nell’età contemporanea: Appunti dal Tavoliere e dalla Piana di Gioia Tauro”	avoro, mobilità e migrazioni a partire dal concetto di salariato imbri-gliato di Yann Moulier Boutang. Università di Bologna
2021/11/18	On the ruins of ‘the new man’: Racialist thought, land reclamation and their afterlives in an Italian agro-industrial enclave	Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Global Racialities
2021/06/12	Awareness raising and its disawovals in anti-trafficking efforts between Nigeria and Italy: Personhood, affect, knowledge and power reconsidered	8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference University of Trento
2021/05/20	Nelle pieghe del consenso: relazioni problematiche tra le storie di vita di lavoratrici del sesso nigeriane e apparati anti-tratta.	Bridges: Intersectional knowledge in action University of Venice Ca' Foscari
2021/05/18	Made in Italy. Sedimentations of race, labour discipline and conflict in agri-food enclaves.	Research Group on Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities - annual meeting Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
2021/01/29	In the ruins of failed sovereignty: Genealogies of racial capital-ism and their state infrastructures in Italian agro-industrial enclaves	Capital in the Web of Sovereignty: Anthropological Reflections on Ex-traction, Appropriation and Violence Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
2021/01/14	Spectres of Eurafrica in an Italian agroindustrial enclave. (Post)colonial infra-structures of labour and migration containment	The Coloniality of Infrastructure: Eurafrican Legacies University of Basel
2020/07/21	Plantation Europe: The afterlife of a racialising machine at the intersection of migration management and agri-business	16th EASA Biennial Conference: New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (LISBON, Portugal)
2020/06/24	Spectres of Eurafrica in an Italian agroindustrial enclave: (Post)colonial infra-structures of labour and migration containment	The Coloniality of Infrastructure: Eurafrican Legacies University of Basel (Basel, Switzerland)
2020/05/28	Genealogies of containment: Migrant labour, bonifica integrale and carceral regimes in an Italian agro-industrial enclave	Matters of containment: Material approaches to the handling of threats in the modern world Quarantine Studies Network (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/04/23	Governing differential inclusion through failure and illegality: Italy’s policy of farm-labour recruitment in the last twenty years	Migrations, Agriculture, Food and Sustainable Development: The Challenges to manage migration for agricultural work, 7th International Seminar Lucian Blaga University (Sibiu, Romania)
2019/07/05	Agro-industrial urbanscapes, slum-camps and their spectres in contemporary Italy: Reflections on complex assemblages	Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory Academy of Global Studies and Critical Theory (Bologna, Italy)
2019/06/21	Conflitti e sinergie della logistica: Enclavi agro-industriali, migrazioni e ZES	Logistica delle migrazioni tra storia e concetto Societá Italiana di Storia del Lavoro (SISLav), Gruppo “Lavoro libero e non libero” University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2019/05/31	“New slavery” and the afterlives of the plantation in contemporary Europe - reflections from Italy’s agro-industrial enclaves	Research Group ‘Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities’ Seminar Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (lisbon, Portugal)
2019/03/26	Competing mobilities, between containment and excess: Agribusiness, migration and logistical governance in contemporary Italy	Mobile Labour Symposium The Colour of Labour ERC Project, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/11/25	Refugeeisation of the agricultural labour force? Humanitarian spectacles in and around Italian agro-industrial enclaves	Research Workshop and International Conference on Migration and Forced Migration Studies Mahanirban research Centre (Kolkhata, India)
2018/10/17	Counter-ethnography, co-research and militancy as ways of making: Reflections from Italy's agro-industrial districts	Modos de Fazer/Ways of Making International Conference Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras (Porto, Portugal)
2018/08/15	Containment in and out of the zone: Apartheid, agro-industrial capital and their genealogies viewed from contemporary Italy	'Staying, Moving, Settling - Biannual meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Stockolm, Sweden)
2018/06/01	Social reproduction and the afterlife of the plantation: A cross-examination between agribusiness in Italy and Mauritius	Gender, Race, Class and Ecology in and through Critical Political Economy Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) Mid-Term Workshop, Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/09	Containment in and out of the zone: Apartheid, agro-industrial capital and their genealogies viewed from contemporary Italy	Beyond Planetary Apartheid – International Conference Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/03/15	Spatial politics of labour containment in the agro-industrial district of Foggia, southern Italy, and their possible genealogies	'5th international seminar, Migrations et agriculture en méditerranée et au-delà: travailler, produire et vivre dans le système agroalimentaire globalisé MUCEM, Marseille (Marseille, France)
2018/02/22	Fuori e dentro la zona: Produzione dello spazio, controllo delle migrazioni e catene globali del valore (Inside and outside the zone: Space production, migration control and global value chains)	'Territori, Mobilità, Lavori' (Territories, Mobilities, Labours), Sezione Ambiente e territorio, Associazione italiana di Sociologia, University of Padua (Padua, Italy)
2018/02/01	Theorising free labour in relation to agro-industrial production in Italy: migration, reproduction, history	Travail gratuit, service, citoyenneté: Approches historiques et sociologiques University of Nanterre (Paris) (Paris, France)
2017/02/14	Militant Research in Migration Studies	Seminar series on Migration in a Global Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Approach University of Bucharest Research Institute (ICUB) (Bucharest, Romania)
2017/01/26	The governance of mobility along agro-industrial commodity chains and in agro-industrial zones. Patterns of differential inclusion, fragmentation and segregation in Italian agricultural districts and beyond.	Migrations, agriculture and food sustainability: Dynamics, challenges and perspectives in the global context Centre of Human and Social Sciences, University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2016/12/09	Sexuality, labour and mobility: Analyzing bonded migrant prostitution between subjectivity, affect and political economies	University of Bucharest Research Institute (ICUB), Faculty of Sociology (Bucharest, Romania)
2016/03/02	Global care-commodity chains: Gender, migration and farm labour in the Ital-ian green factories and beyond	Research Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Cluj Department of Sociology, University of Cluj (Cluj, Romania)
2015/10/23	Sexuality in global care-commodity chains: Gender and farm labour in the Italian green factories	International Seminar on human migration and migration in rural areas Harokopio University, Athens (Athens, Greece)
2015/06/12	Emergenc(i)es in the fields: militant research and countercamps against the exploitation of migrant labour in the Italian green factory	Uniconflicts in spaces of crisis: Critical approaches in, against and be-yond the University Department of Architecture, University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece)
2015/05/26	Sex workers' everyday resistances and the subversive powers of prostitution: Reflections on the political potentialities of bodies and social reproduction	Workshop on Resistance Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2014/07/10	Migrants' struggles? Logistics workers' mobilizations and the dilemma of mi-grant politics	Bread, Freedom and Social Justice’: Organised Workers and Mass Mo-bilizations in the Arab World, Europe and Latin America Centre For Research In The Arts, Social Sciences And Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2014/06/27	Emergenc(i)es in the fields: Affective composition and counter-camps against the exploitation of migrant farm labour in Italy	London Conference in Critical Thought Goldsmiths College, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2014/05/08	From camps to fields: Where migrant labour exploitation and the asylum sys-tem meet	Migrating in, migrating out: how to (re)think “migrants’” struggles New Left Perspectives and Social Center “Xaspel” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2014/03/06	Emergenze: Soggettività in costruzione dentro e oltre lo stato d'eccezione	Activist research and militant ethnography: New experiments in the so-cio-anthropological study of social movements University of Modena (Modena, Italy)
2013/09/15	Campagne in Lotta: Ricerca per la composizione oltre il precariato e l'isola-mento	XXVII Meeting of the Italian School of Political Science Italian School of Political Science (Florence, Italy)
2013/07/01	Au delà du consentement et de la coercition: attitudes subjectives et contraintes structurelles dans la servitude sexuelle pour dette des femmes mi-grantes nigérianes (trad. Prune de Montvalon)	Analyse pluridisciplinaire de l’exploitation sexuelle dan des parcours de traite d’êtres humains – Journées d’études University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
2013/04/30	Ambiguous Bonds: Imperceptibility and Power in Migrant Sex Labour Be-tween Nigeria And Italy	Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
2013/01/30	Collective practice-research-practice: building on the experience of a militant volunteer camp with migrant workers in southern Italy	Migration and Militant Research Workshop (Londres, United Kingdom)
2012/11/15	Transparent loves: Subjectifying practices and affective excesses in the rela-tionships between Nigerian sex workers, their partners, governmental and non-governmental agencies	American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association (San Francisco, United States)
2011/11/16	Affecting voodoo: Visceral politics and anti-trafficking action against bonded prostitution in Italy	American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)
2011/06/21	Mistrusting states and affective labours: bonded Nigerian prostitution and humanitarianism in contemporary Italy	Council for European Studies International conference (Barcelona, Spain)
2011/06/02	Affective labour and its excesses: migrant sex workers and humanitarianism between Nigeria and Italy	Ethnographic perspectives on work and labour London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
2011/03/11	Affective labour and its excesses: migrant sex workers and humanitarianism between Nigeria and Italy	Faculty Seminar Department of Anthropology, University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
2009/10/21	Ambiguity, intimacy and (mist)trust: the case of migrant Nigerian women	African History and Anthropology Group, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge
2009/02/13	Persons as property? The case of Nigerian sex workers in Italy	West Africa Seminar Department of Anthropology, University College, London
2009/01/16	Selling people: Genealogies and interfaces	Magic Circle Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
2008/12/09	Misappropriations of aid: the case of Italian-Nigerian anti-trafficking projects	Joint Conference of the Anthropological Societies of the UK and Commonwealth, New Zealand and Australia University of Auckland (New Zealand)
2008/11/21	Not a slave?! Exploring the ambiguities of bonded sex labour across the Nigerian-Italian border	Annual Meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Association Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2007/09/12	Gender inequality or loss of morals? The multiple ‘cultures’ of anti-trafficking discourses	Faculty Seminar Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Benin (Benin City, Nigeria)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Entender Porque as Pessoas Morrem - O Papel da Fronteira Moderna no Capitalismo Contemporâneo Co-supervisor
2021 - 2023	“Come uova sul tavolo La sospensione esistenziale nei regimi di frontiera e confinamento" Co-supervisor	Cultural Anthropology, ethnology, ethnolinguistics (Master) Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy
2009/10 - 2010/06	Hidden theatre: Creating bridges between cultures through performance in an Italian theatre project Supervisor	University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology, United Kingdom

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - 2025/07/11	Stretching the Limits of Global Urban History, Second conference of the Global Urban History Project, Berlin. Panel on “The City After the Plantation: Interrogating the Planetary in Urban History”, convenor with Kenny Cupers and Wangui Kimari, Discussant: Carl Nightingale (2025/07/10)
2024/01/07 - 2025/06/06	Summer school “Inhabiting the Surrounds: Urbanity, Critique and Speculative Practice”, DISCI, Università di Torino (September 2024); Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon/Dinamia CET, ISCTE (June 2025) - Organiser. With Filip De Boeck, Ruth Gilmore, Michele Lancione, Alana Osbourne, Andrea Pavoni, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tatiana Thieme. (2024/09/23)
2023/11 - 2024/07	Executive Plenary, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biannual conference, “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”, Barcelona. With Anthropology of Labour, Anthropology of Fascism, Anthropology of Race and Ethnicities, Anthropology of the Economy and European Queer Anthropology Networks; Title TBD. (2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023/11 - 2024/07	Labour in the ruins of modernity [Anthropology of Labour Network Panel]. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biannual conference, “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”, Barcelona, Convenor (with M. Dolezalova). (2024/07/23 - 2024/07/26) Conference (Co-organisor)
2021/06 - 2023/09	Planetary Commune/La Comuna Planetaria, Universidade de Chile, final conference of “The Commune as an expansive planetary political form: A Digital and Transnational Project”, sponsored by the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory. Convenor (with A. Castronovo, N. Cuppini, Cuppini, C. De Ambroggi, C. Hung, I. Reyes-Díaz, R. Karmy Bolton, A. Fagioli) (2023/09/27 - 2023/09/29) Conference (Co-organisor)	Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile, Chile
2022/11 - 2023/06	Labour, class, fascisms: A roundtable. Anthropological Dialogues on Capitalism and Fascism, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Anthropology of Fascism and Anthropology of Labour networks. With Juraj Buzalka, Marketa Dolezalova, Gillian Evans, Douglas Holmes (2023/06/28 - 2023/06/28) Round table (Co-organisor)
2022/11 - 2023/04	Lavoro, mobilità e migrazioni a partire dal concetto di salariato imbrigliato di Yann Moulier Boutang (Work, mobilities, migrations: Rethinking Yann Moulier Boutang’s notion of bridled labour). Convenor (with M. Sacchi, S. Mezzadra, N. Cuppini, M. Frapporti, M. Pirone) (2022/04/29 - 2022/04/29) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
2022/09 - 2023/04	Labour and/as value in the context of global crisis: ethnographic insights, special stream co-convenor, 41st International Labour Process Conference, “Fair and decent work in a Global Economy?” (2023/04/12 - 2023/04/14) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
2022/03 - 2022/07	Exploited, criminalized, or protected? Conflicting categorisations and subjective experiences of migrants in Europe across multiple temporalities. Panel at the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) Annual Conference, Oslo, Convenor (with M. Semprebon, G. Garofalo and M. Clemente) (2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01) Conference
2022/01 - 2022/03	The space-times and afterlives of bonifica – a symposium. School of Architecture, Convenor (with D. Profeta) and discussant (2022/03/23 - 2022/03/23) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Syracuse University - Florence, Italy
2020/04 - 2021/04	Decolonising the Commune and its aftermaths - a dialogue with Bruno Bosteels and Massimiliano Tomba (2021/04/29 - 2021/04/29) Seminar (Co-organisor)
2019/04/01 - 2020/04/03	Plantations and their afterlives: Materialities, durabilities, struggles – convenor (with Colette Le Petitcorps and Marta Macedo), international, interdisciplinary symposium (2020/04/01 - 2020/04/03) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2018/01 - 2018/08/15	Panel convenor (with Colette Lepetitcorps and Céline Cantat) 'Staying, Moving, Settling - Biannual meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)', Stockholm (Panel title: Containment and excess: Techniques for the pacing of mobility, idioms and forms of resistance) (2018/08/14 - 2018/08/18) Conference (Co-organisor)
2014/02/25 - 2014/05/13	Mobility struggles: An interdisciplinary seminar series on the control of mobility, its limits and opponents. Organiser (with Sandro Mezzadra) and discussant (invited speakers: Rutvica Andrijasevic, Devi Sacchetto, Biao Xiang, Paolo Cuttitta, Nicholas De Genova, Annamaria Rivera, Federica Sossi, Engin Isin). The seminar series investigated the working mechanisms of different apparatuses for the control of migrant mobility, but also their contradictions, clashes, failures and limitations, and the struggles against them. (2014/02/25 - 2014/05/13) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/04/11 - Current	Session on the 'Urban Undersides'	Narrating Urban Lives: Theoretical Interventions for Global Urban History. A public conversation series
2022/03/08 - Current	Contesting fortress Europe: liquid violence and invisible war in the Mediterranean – a roundtable. Part of the project “In war’s wake: mobility, belonging, and becoming in the aftermath of urban conflict” Round table	In War’s Wake: Mobility, Belonging, and Becoming in the Aftermath of Urban Conflict University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities, United Kingdom
2023/04/17 - 2023/04/21	Roundtable “On Habitability—Propositions Beyond Capture”	Urban Life at the Extensions – A Week of Dialogues University of London Institute in Paris, France
2021/03/19 - 2021/06/25	Making territories of operation in urbanities changed around: Maneuvers, propositions, struggles, deceptions - Public Culture journal in collaboration with the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, convened by AbdouMaliq Simone and Vijayanthi Rao, workshop, by invitation Workshop
2021/03/03 - 2021/03/05	Invited chair, working group on “Agricultural workers and COVID: Key to rich countries’ food security?”, and panelist in closing session, Global Labour University Conference	Migration and trade unions: Migrant Labour Struggles and Challenges
2021/01/08 - 2021/01/29	weekly seminar - Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) Seminar	Capital in the Web of Sovereignty: Anthropological Reflections on Ex-traction, Appropriation and Violence, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2020/01/22 - 2020/01/22	Migrant Labor Struggles in Italian Agriculture - invited discussion based on my paper titled “Emergenc(i)es in the fields: Affective composition and counter-camps against the exploitation of migrant farm labour in Italy” (2016) Seminar	Duke University Social Movements Lab Duke University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, United States
2018/03/17 - 2018/03/17	Participatory workshop with academics, activists, and stakeholders from across the world. A paper of mine titled 'Genealogies of containment, violence and repression: Fascism and its legacies in the agro-industrial district of Foggia, south-eastern Italy' was shared among the participants before the event. Workshop	Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam International Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
2017/05/05 - 2017/05/05	Presentation and discussion of 'Mediterranea' film (Carpignano, 2015) at Psicologia Film Festival, Turin Festival
2014/04/17 - 2014/04/17	Round table with postdoctoral researchers in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Bologna Round table	Citizens and Territory: Inclusion, marginality and resilience Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2013/12/14 - 2013/12/15	Migrations and Activist Research Workshop - the event gathered scholars at all stages of their career, from around Europe, working on engaged forms of research on the topic of migration (no formal presentation but discussion of texts) Workshop	Migrations and Activist Research Workshop University of Leicester School of Business, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2025/02	Anthropology of the state	Fabio Ricciardi (PhD)
2023/03/14	Thesis title: “Come uova sul tavolo La sospensione esistenziale nei regimi di frontiera e confinamento", Final grade: 110 cum laude (top grade). The thesis was based on several months of fieldwork with migrant farm workers and social workers in the Plain of Gioia Tauro, where I have also conducted extensive research on these and related themes Supervisor	Stefano Galeazzi (Master) Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/03 - Current	Tracce Urbane
2024 - Current	European Journal of Social Theory
2024 - Current	American Anthropologist
2024 - Current	Food, Culture and Society
2024/01 - 2024/01	Critical Criminology
2024 - 2024	About Gender
2024 - 2024	Antipode
2023/09 - 2023/09	Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa
2023/05 - 2023/05	American Anthropologist
2023/01 - 2023/01	Analise Social
2022/10 - 2022/10	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2022/05 - 2022/05	Geopolitics
2022/04 - 2022/04	Social Sciences
2022/02 - 2022/02	Agriculture and Human Values

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/12 - 2023/12	2024 International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE) Annual Conference "Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn"
2017/04/01 - 2017/09/01	“Contested borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe" Lesvos (Greece)	Invisible Cities Research Group, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean
2011/05/21 - 2012/01/16	The bonds of migration: Debt, interdependence and mobility	The University of Chicago Centre in Paris

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022 - Current	Legambiente Cuneo (Italy)/Touba Velingara, Senegal I have been facilitating the funding of a project in support of farmers in the rural community of Touba Velingara, in the north of Senegal, animated by a former migrant farm worker with whom I conducted research for several years, who returned to his country after a decade spent in Italy. The project includes the construction of a solar-powered well and the provision of mechanical farming tools.
2021/12/13 - Current	Trainer – Centro Astalli, Trento, Italy Session on “Nigeria: understanding trafficking and sexual exploitation through the social and anthropological context”, aimed at social workers.
2021 - 2022	Islington Law Centre, London (UK), expert witness in UK immigration court case for the recognition of legal status on the grounds of trafficking and severe exploitation (including in the context of farm-work employment and forced drug dealing in Italy).

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/10 - Current	Anthropological Theory and Migrations (2 h lecture and 2 h seminar), Theory Module, Migrations PhD Program		Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2024/05 - Current	Thematic seminar, Migrations PhD Program, Title of the seminar: “Spaces of Migrant Containment”		Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2025/05/08 - 2025/05/08	Coming to terms with the past: From the Kingdom of Dahomey to the Republic of Benin	Anthropology and HIstory of the Contemporary World (Laurea Magistrale)	Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali, Italy
2025/03/10 - 2025/04/07	(Post-)colonial memories: theories, themes and debates	Anthropology (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2023/08 - 2023/09	Governing labour mobility across time and space: Genealogical perspectives - Modern History and Anthropology Summer School		Jagiellonian School of History and Culture, Poland
2021/08 - 2021/12	The rise and fall of “rural urbanism” in modern Italy – Architecture Abroad Program, Florence, seminar course instructor (fall semester, 39 hours)	Architecture (Bachelor)	Syracuse University - Florence, Italy
2019/11/19 - 2019/11/19	Politics of migration: control of bodies and strategies of flight and resistance	Political Anthropology (Laurea Magistrale)	Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2019/05/05 - 2019/05/05	Racism, Hierarchy and Contemporary Immigration Policies	Migrations and Globalization course, Lisbon Language and Culture	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/07/03 - 2018/07/03	Migration management in and out of Italian agro-industrial enclaves: Analysing the forms of West-African and Eastern-European workers' containment and social reproduction	Border Crossings: European and North-American Responses to the Current Migration Crisis, Summer School	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/05/04 - 2018/05/04	Training workshop for social workers on Nigeria: issues of gender and generations	Africa Inside Out: Le migrazioni viste dai contesti di origine, CCI - Centro per la Cooperazione Internazionale, Trento
2017/09/12 - 2017/09/12	Gender: Origins, meaning, development and critique of a concept	Centro Studi sul Pensiero Contemporaneo Summer School: Humanitas, Le Scienze Umane nel Mondo Contemporaneo
2017/07/03 - 2017/07/03	Lesson on 'Nigeria: political economic structures and their effects on migration and migrant subjectivities'	International Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum, Bologna
2017/06/06 - 2017/06/06	Trafficking and labour exploitation training programme for social workers and law enforcement agents, Beside You – Building European Systems for Investigation and Defence of Victims of Human Trafficking, Council of Europe, IRES Piemonte, Procura della Repubblica di Torino Gruppo Criminalità Organizzata e Sicurezza Urbana - Turin
2017/02/24 - 2017/02/24	The anthropology of property, risk and exchange: Property, personhood and the bonded sex labour of Nigerian women	Anthropology (Licencjat)	Universitatea din Bucure¿ti Facultatea de Sociologie si Asistenta Sociala, Romania
2015/04/22 - 2015/04/22	Frontiers of Citizenship - sex work, farm labour and their intersection through the lens of containment and resistance	Frontiers of Citizenship (Laurea Magistrale)	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy
2015/04/09 - 2015/04/09	The Anthropology of Migration: Bodies, biopolitics and the control of mobility (lecture); Camps and other forms of containment: Exploring some of the biopolitical institutions of contemporary migration regimes (seminar)	The Anthropology of Migration (Bachelor)	University of St. Andrews , United Kingdom
2014/05/05 - 2014/05/29	Training on Nigeria as the country of origin of migrants, aimed at social workers and law enforcement agents in two municipalities of the district of Bologna
2014/02/25 - 2014/05/13	Bodies, biopower and biopolitics in relation to citizenship and migration; transparency and the humanitarian regime	Frontiers of Citizenship/Frontiere della Cittadinanza (Laurea Magistrale)	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Italy

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2019/04/22 - Current	External reviewer, Young Researchers Fellowship, University of Bucharest Research Institute (ICUB) Evaluator	Universitatea din Bucure¿ti, Romania

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2016/10/05	Interview on migrant farm labour organisation, exploitation and struggles in the district of Foggia, south-eastern Italy	Hinterland Magazine

Legal proceeding

	Activity description	Case
2012/08/01 - 2012/08/28	Expert witness - Consultancy on juju practices for UK court case on human trafficking involving a supposed Nigerian victim and Nigerian trafficker

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2024/10 - Current		Hannah Suhail Mazkour

Distinctions

Award

2024	Prémio Estímulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais (ERICS) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2023	Prémio Estímulo e Reconhecimento da Internacionalização em Ciências Sociais (ERICS) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2011	William Wyse Prize for Postdoctoral Research Proposals University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology, United Kingdom