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.

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 work has focussed on the study of temporary reception centres for migrants in mainland Greece.

She holds a PhD in International Studies from L’Orientale University in Naples, Italy. Her work focuses on the refugee invisible spatialities of North Macedonia and on how the Balkan Route historically evolved in that region.

Vasiliki holds a diploma in Architecture Engineering and a PhD in Urban Planning from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She investigates the informal refugee mobilities in relation to spaces, infrastructure and digital technologies in the Greek island ‘entry-zones’.

He holds a PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. His work has focussed on questions of counter-mapping and counter-archiving in relation to migration routes.

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 research analyzes the role of walking in the reproduction of the Balkan Route, with a particular focus on Slovenia and Croatia.

She holds a M.A. in International Relations. Her PhD project focuses on the study of migrants' (im)mobility in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including questions related to violence along the border of the Una-Sana Canton.

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.