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

Selected publications (until June 2018, see 'Publications' for more recent outputs):

Pascucci, E. (2018) Seeking asylum in neoliberal Cairo: refugee protests and the securitization of humanitarianism. In Gerard, A. and Vecchio, F. (eds) Entrapping Asylum Seekers: Legal Social and Economic Precariousness. Sidney: Palgrave MacMillan, 83-105. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137587381

Pascucci, E. (2017) The humanitarian infrastructure and the question of over-research: reflections on fieldwork in the Middle Eastern refugee crises 2011-2015. Area  https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12312

Häkli, J., Pascucci, E., Kallio, K. P. (2017). Becoming refugee in Cairo: The political in performativity International Political Sociology https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olx002

Ramadan, A., Pascucci, E. (2017) Urban Geopolitics of Refuge. In Rokem, J., Fregonese, S., (eds) Interventions in urban geopolitics. Political Geography 61, 253-262 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629817300859

Pascucci, E. (2017) Community infrastructures: shelter, self-reliance and polymorphic borders in urban refugee governance. Territory, Politics, Governance 5 (3), 332-345 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21622671.2017.1297252

Pascucci, E. (2017) Review of 'Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System', by Betts, A. and Collier, P. Fennia - International Journal of Geography 195(2): 197-201 hhtps://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.66415    

Pascucci, E. (2016) Transnational disruptions: materialities and temporalities of transnational citizenship among Somali refugees in Cairo. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.12115

Kangas, A., Kynsilehto A., Norocel O. C., Pascucci E., Särmä S., Weaver C. (2015). Let’s not internationalize but postnationalize universities. Politiikasta http://politiikasta.fi/lets-not-internationalize-but-postnationalize-universities  

Geographies of humanitarian labour

Humanitarianism and precarity

Humanitarian architectures, humanitarian logistics and the politics of sustainability

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.