Core team

He is a cultural geographer with a strong interest in social and political theory. His research projects have focused on the geographies of  tourism and travel, and recently on camp and carceral geographies, with a particular focus on the Balkan region.

He holds a PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. In his work, he adopts a legal-geographic perspective to examine the spatial and territorial dynamics that underpin regimes of (im) mobility, mainly in the context of immigration and border control.

She is a political geographer, with an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of urban and political geography, as well as critical border, migration, and citizenship studies. Her research interests revolve around temporary reception of migrants in Europe, focusing on migrant solidarity and activism, squatting, self-organisation and cohabitation.

She holds a PhD in International Studies from L’Orientale University in Naples, Italy. Beside carrying out ethnographic research along the Balkan Route, and in particular in the so-called ‘Southern Balkan invisible spatialities’, she has strong research attachment to biopolitics and critical legal studies. She also worked as a project research assistant at Refugee Law and Migration Center - Iustinianus Primus Law Faculty, Skopje, and Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. 

Vasiliki holds a diploma in Architecture Engineering and a PhD in Urban Planning from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her primary research areas include critical urban theory, feminist methodologies, migration studies and science and technology studies (STS). Her current research interests revolve around infrastructure, digital geographies and technologies and feminist technoscience perspectives.

Yolanda is a feminist political geographer specialized in forced migration studies. She holds a PhD from York University (Canada). Within TheGame project she focuses on the archipelago of formal camps (transit centres, reception centres, etc.), examining and theorizing their spatialities, temporalities, the power relations that produce them and that they produce, their relation to informal mobilities, as well as everyday life in such camps.

Her work contributes to the field research of “childhoods on the move” – childhoods lived by children during protracted migration through the European Borderlands, with a focus on the Balkan Route. During her studies she participated in various projects, concerned with researching and exceeding marginalization of social groups, based on ethnicity, social status, and other involuntary attributes. 

She holds a M.A. in International Relations. Her PhD project focuses on the role of informal spaces produced by migrants during their mobility towards Europe, particularly in Northern Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Emma is a Phd Candidate in Global Histories, Cultures and Politics (39th cycle) at the Department of History and Cultures. Her aim is to investigate the material culture of contemporary migration flows and makeshift camps on the Balkan Route employing archaeological methodologies.

He is a professional cultural mediator, translator and interpreter – specialising in the translation between Italian and many different Asian languages and viceversa. He has been collaborating for years with several international and European organisations.