Biography
Before my PhD, I studied Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (2021), and completed an MA degree in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, University of London (2023). My doctoral studies are funded by the Cambridge Trust International Scholarship.
Research
Research
My PhD project grapples with the recent and abrupt reconfiguration of two Albanian towns following the construction of externalised Italian immigration detention centres. I seek to trace the residents’ perspectives on the installation of Italo-European carceral borders, which restructure the Albanian territory as a militarised and partitioned space. Looking at the interface between Italy and Albania, I explore how incarceration and bordering are co-produced and performed to manage and impose im/mobilities on multiple populations at once. I read the current encounter in light of long-lasting histories of mass emigration, economic uncertainty, and post-socialist transformations.
Research interests
Bordering practices, border externalisation regimes & im/mobilities; detention & carcerality; neo-colonialism; post-socialism; spatial analysis; visual & creative methodologies.
