Elisa's research focuses on two main areas: refugee political agency and political mobilization, and infrastructures and economies of humanitarianism and refuge. 

Complete list of publications (Google Scholar)  

Current research themes include: 

Humanitarianism, care work and precarity

Humanitarian architectures, humanitarian logistics and the politics of sustainability

Grassroots and citizen-led humanitarianism at European borders (with Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, PRIO, Norway)

Humanitarianism and remote management technologies (with Nadine Hassouneh, University of Leeds, UK)

Refugee labour and refugee knowledges in the modern international humanitarian regime, with particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa, and the broader Mediterranean (with Nadine Hassouneh, University of Leeds, UK)

Teaching (postgraduate):

Contemporary European Politics and Integration (Migration and Asylum)

Europe, Migration and Global Coloniality

The Social Life of Law: Migration, Security and Human Rights

Qualitative Research Methods (Ethnographic methods)

Doctoral students and thesis committee memberships:

Nora Fabritius 

Berfin Nur Osso